374 . NTMPHALID^E. 



Race agnicula, Moore, differs from the typical form as follows : — 

 S 2 • Upperside : ground-colour a deeper richer fulvous, terminal 

 margins of both fore and hind wings jet-black, the black much 

 narrower on the hind wing ; the inner margin more sharply defined 

 and without the border of yellow spots, the irroration of grey scales 

 along their outer margin less conspicuous. Underside: ground- 

 colour brown, more uniform in both sexes ; the transverse series 

 of ocelli more conspicuous, the ocelli smaller, the series of lunules 

 very obscure. 



Exp. <S 2 58-62 mm. (2-3-2-43"). 



Hab. Recorded from Eastern Kumatin, Nepal and the Chumbi 

 Valley east of Sikhim. 



386. Vanessa egea, Cramer (Papilio), Bap. Exot. i, 1775, pi. 78, 

 figs. 0, D. 



Race interposita. 



Vanessa egea, de N. (nee Cramer) Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 237. 

 Vanessa c-album, var. interposita, Staudinger, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, 



p. 286; Moore (Polygonia), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 100, 



pi. 318, figs. 1, 1 a, <S 2 • 



Race interposita, Staudinger. — <$ 2 > Closely resembles V. 

 c-album, Linn., but differs as follows : — Upperside : ground-colour 

 paler fulvous, black markings much smaller, the terminal dusky 

 black margin of both fore and hind wings much narrower ; the 

 discal spots on fore wing variable in number, often reduced to 

 only one in interspace 1 ; the spot at base of interspace 4 in 

 hind wing wanting, the dorsal margin of the same wing f ulvous 

 brown, in certain lights golden. Underside pale ochraceous brown, 

 the slender transverse striae not so short as in V. c-album, the 

 basal area of both wings, from below the cell in the fore wing, 

 dark, sharply defined on the outer side, the markings somewhat 

 similar to those in V. c-album, but the white mark beyond cell of 

 hind wing L-shaped not C-shaped : the greenish ocelli absent ; the 

 greenish lunules present. Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown ; the palpi, thorax and abdomen beneath much paler. 



Exp. <s 2 56-58 mm. (2-2-2-3"). 



Hab. Recorded within our limits from Chitral. 



From typical V. egea this race differs in the darker shade of 

 both upper and under sides of the wings. 



Genus ARASCHNIA. 



Araschnia, Hilbner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 37 ; Leech, Bidt. 

 China, i, 1892, p. 267 • Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 108. 



Type, A. levana, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Western Asia ; Japan ; China, extending to 

 the hills of Assam ; Manipur ; Northern Burma. 



S 2 • Eore wing : costa very slightly arched ; apex broadly 

 rounded ; termen concave in the middle ; tornus rounded ; dorsum 

 straight ; cell slenderly closed ; upper discocellular minute, middle 



