NYTHA. 



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138. Nytha parisatis, Kollar (Satyrus), Denkschr. Akad. Wien, Math.- 

 nat. Ch. i, 1849, p. 52 ; M.% de N. (Hipparchia) Butt. Ind. i, 

 1883, p. 184, pi. 16, fig. 47 $ ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 24, 

 figs. 4, 4 a, S, 2 • 



J . Upperside dark vandyke-brown ; costa preapically, lower 

 half of termen on fore wing narrowly and termen of hind wing 

 more broadly bluish grey, crossed by the dark veins and touched 

 with brown at the apices of the latter ; fore wing with a pre- 

 apical black spot pupilled with white, another plain black spot 

 in interspace 2, and two intermediate white dots ; hind wing 

 with a subanal white-centred black spot. Underside pale sepia- 

 brown, irrorated with numerous white striae, the discal and tornal 

 area only of the fore wing without striae ; both wings crossed 

 by a highly sinuous, broad, white discal band, inwardly defined 



m w 



Fig. 29. — Nytha parisatis, <$ . 



by a dark brown line, subterminal and terminal narrow brown 

 bands ; the round black spots as on the upperside, but more 

 distinct and ringed with yellow; hind wing with an additional 

 ocellus in interspace 5. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 concolorous with the wings above, paler below. Sex-mark a large 

 dark brown patch of specialized scales on basal half of fore 

 wing. 



5 . Similar, the greyish-white marginal borders broader. 



Exp. S 2 76-82 mm. (3-02-3-25"). 



Rah. N.W. Himalayas, Baluchistan, extending into Afghanistan 

 and S. Persia. 



This form is somewhat aberrant : the club of the antennae is not 

 spatulate, but crescentic and concave beneath ; the colouring also 

 is of a different character from the rest of the group. 



