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wings. Pore wing : apex of cell and the area a little beyond 

 it very dark brown ; a discal series of broad streaks and spots 

 white, those in interspaces 2 and 5 medially interrupted by round 

 black spots, inner portion of upper streak prolonged to costa. 

 Hind wing : a broad discal, outwardly diffuse, curved band, not 

 extended to the dorsum, white, a black spot beyond it in inter- 

 space 2. Underside : fore wing — the series of white streaks and 

 the two round black spots as on the upperside, but the streaks 

 broader, forming a continuous band, bordered on each side by a 

 sinuous dark line ; wing medially ochraceous, costa, apex and 

 termen mottled black and greyish white, dorsum broadly dark brown 

 except on the white band. Hind wing much mottled with grey 

 and black strise, some transverse black marks near base, followed 

 by two sinuous dark angulated lines. Both wings with terminal 

 dark lines and the cilia dusky greyish white and dark brown alter- 

 nately. Antennse, head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown ; club 

 of antennae black, abdomen beneath whitish. Male without any 

 secondary sex-mark. 



Exp. s 2 66-80 mm. (2-6-3-15"). 



Bab. Within our limits recorded from Chaman, in Baluchistan, 

 extending through Persia to Southern Eussia. 



137. Nytha shandura, Marshall (Hipparchia), J. A. 8. B. 1882, p. 38, 

 pi. 4, fig. 3 $ ; M - # de N - (Hipparchia) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 191 ; Moore (Chazara), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 21, pi. 98, 

 figs. 3, 3 a, c? 2 • 



c? 2 • Upperside dusky black ; cilia white, dusky black at the 

 apices of the veins. Pore wing : basal half of cell and an out- 

 wardly curved discal series of broad streaks in the interspaces 

 white, the streaks in interspaces 2 and 5 completely interrupted 

 in the middle by black, white-centred ocelli. Hind wing : apex 

 of cell and an outwardly curved, diffuse, broad, discal band white. 

 Underside: fore wing — cell white, crossed subapically by a black 

 bar ; discal series of streaks and the ocelli as on the upperside, but 

 the former broader and longer, confluent ; a sub terminal, somewhat 

 indistinct lunular, and a more distinct terminal black line ; apex 

 and costa irrorated with greyish and black scales. Hind wing 

 dusky greyish brown, the apex of cell and discal band, as on 

 upperside, white, the greyish area much irrorated with brownish 

 scales and the white with dusky black scales, giving altogether 

 a mottled appearance. Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen dark 

 greyish brown; legs and abdomen beneath whitish. Male sex-mark 

 a broad band of specialized black scales from lower apex of cell to 

 dorsum. 



Exp. 6 2 58-66 mm. (2-3-2-6"). 



Bab. Northern Kashmir. 



This is simply a race of N. heidenreichi, Lederer, from the Altai 

 Mountains in Central Asia. 



