aegyxjsts. 433 



the 2 seem to be always darker, and in my own and in the 

 British Museum collections there are, from Chitral, a few very 

 melanoid specimens of the 2 , unlike any I have seen from other 

 localities. In these the ground-colour and markings on the 

 upperside are as in the ordinary form, but very strongly suffused 

 with a dark purplish-black bloom that extends all over the wings : 

 on the fore wing the costal margin beyond the discal band bears a 

 white spot ; the upper two spots of the postdiscal series have 

 a small white spot on either side, the subterminal series of 

 inwardly pointed spots on both fore and hind wings are margined 

 on the outer side by a series of white spots, and the cilia are 

 prominently white. 



430. Argynnis jainadeva, Moore, Ent. Month. Mag. i, 1864, p. 131 ; 



id. Yarkand Miss., Lep. 1879, p. 2 ; de N. Butt. Lid. ii, 1886, 

 p. 135 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 238, pi. 374, figs. 1, 

 1 «-l c, <$ 2 • 



d 2 • Closely resembles A. aglaia race vitatha, but the black 

 markings on the upperside are broader as a rule than in that 

 form. There is, however, considerable variation, probably seasonal 

 or extremely local, and many specimens are much paler than 

 typical forms, with the markings distinctly narrower and smaller. 

 On the upperside both sexes can generally be distinguished from 

 vitatha by the more rounded inner margins of the subterminal 

 series of spots on both fore and hind wings ; on the underside 

 by the very prominent transverse series of silvery-centred dark 

 ferruginous spots bordering the discal row of silvery spots on the 

 hind wing. This is very distinctive, not a trace of such spots 

 occurs in vitatha. 



Exp. <S 2 60-68 mm. (2-3S-2-68"). 



Hab. The Himalayas ; Chitral to Kumaun above 9000 ft. 



The Chitral forms seem to run larger and darker. 



431. Argynnis kamala, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 156 ; 



de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 134; Moore (Dryas), Lep. Ind. iv, 

 1899-1900, p. 224, pi. 371, figs. 1,1 a, lb, <$ $ . 



$ . Upperside golden yellow with black spots and markings as 

 below ; basal area of the wings darkened by an irroration of 

 olivaceous-brown .scales. Fore wing : two short sinuous trans- 

 verse lines across middle of cell, with an inverted N -shaped mark 

 beyond ; a somewhat zigzag series of large spots, angulated 

 outwards in interspace 4 and inwards in interspace 2, followed 

 by a short transverse subcostal streak in interspace 6, a trans- 

 verse, slightly sinuous postdiscal and a straighter subterminal 

 series of spots ; a transverse narrow edging to the termen, the 

 last traversed by a very slender interrupted line of the yellow 

 ground-colour. Hind wing : base clothed with long soft yellow 

 hair extending over the cell and along vein 1, a transverse short 

 streak near apex of cell, another in the interspace below it ; 

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