MAKLOLA. KARANASA. 123. 



colour on the fore wing paler, the ground-colour of the hind wing 

 brown, darker basally. Fore wing with a discal and a sub- 

 terminal dark brown line, the former bordered outwardly near 

 the costa by a short white streak, the ocelli as on the upperside. 

 Hind wing as in the <S . Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown. 



Exp. 6 2 39-46 mm. (1-53--1-7")- 



Hab. Ladak ; Kashmir. 



Var. vnaiza, Lang, differs chiefly in both S and $ having a 

 transverse discal brown line on the underside of the fore wing. 

 Var. goolmurga, Lang, differs in the brown on the costa, termen 

 and dorsum being narrower. The shade of ground-colour, the 

 ocelli, and the spots composing the transverse discal band on the 

 hind wing are variable characters. 



Genus KARANASA. 



Karanasa, Moore, Lep. Ind. \\, 1893, p. 38. 

 Kanetisa, Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893, p. 42. 



Type, K. huebneri, Felder, from Ladak. 



Range. Kashmir, Baltistan, Ladak, N.W. Himalayas, Baluch- 

 stan. 



d 2 - Fore wing subtriangular, costa slightly arched, termen 

 straight or slightly convex, dorsum straight, tornus rounded ; 

 diseoidal cell long, over half length of wing ; upper discocellular 

 minute, middle angulated inwards, lower outwardly convex ; veins 

 2 to 6 parallel, equidistant, 10 and 11 from before upper apex 

 of cell; vein 12 inflated at base, median vein barely thickened. 

 Hind wing ovate, termen slightly scalloped, diseoidal cell about 

 half length of wing ; vein 3 from well before, 4 from apex of 

 cell, 6 slightly closer to 7 than to 5. Antennae slightly over half 

 length of fore wing ; club very long and gradual, deeply grooved 

 beneath ; palpi fringed with long hair, third joint short ; eyes 

 naked ; intermediate femora longer than tibiae, with long hair 

 beneath. Male sex-mark, an oblique, somewhat narrow and gene- 

 rally rather indistinct band of specialized scales, below median 

 nervure on upperside of fore wing. 



Key to the forms of Karanasa. 



a. Wings with a broad, transverse ochraceous or 



orange band on upperside. 

 a'. Fore wing : termen strongly convex. Ex- 

 panse 48—55 mm. , ~ 7 7 . -. , 

 a 2 . Basal half of both fore and hind wing I A> hu f™ r h P- *-<&. 



vandvke-brown v (Typical.) 



lr. Basal half of both fore and hind wing ^ ar ' mo ^ s ^ P- 1U - 

 ochraceous, more or less shaded with 



brown Var. leechi, p. 1 24. 



b' . Fore wing: termen straight. Expanse 60- 



64 mm K. digna, p. 125. 



b. Wings uniform brown, without an ochraceous 



or orange band on upperside K. phnpla, p. 124. 



