ARGYINNIS. 443' 



margin very narrowly at base, a spot at bases of interspaces 7 

 and 8, a spot below it in middle of cell, a short streak at base of 

 interspace 1, a spot in middle of interspace 7, three short streaks 

 in vertical order below it, an elongate mark beyond apex of cell, 

 a discal transverse curved series of inwardly pointed spots inter- 

 rupted in interspace 4, a postdiscal series of black silver-centred 

 small spots, and a conspicuous row of large triangular terminal 

 spots, rich silvery. Antennas dark ocbraceous brown ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen brown, covered with fulvous hairs ; beneath, palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen dark ochraceous. — $ . Differs from the 6 as 

 follows : — Upperside ground-colour darker. Tore wing : the dark 

 shading at base irrorated with grey scales, extending up to the 

 discal series of spots in interspaces 1 and 2, and up to the tornus 

 in interspace la; a small white subcostal spot on the inner side 

 of the postdiscal series of spots, and transverse series of small 

 white spots interposed between the subterminal and terminal black 

 markings ; these spots rounded anteriorly, transverse posteriorly. 

 Hind wing with a similar series of transverse white spots. 

 Cilia white, alternated with black. Underside : the terminal 

 silvery-white spots on the fore wing larger and continued as a 

 rule down to interspace 1 ; on the hind wing the rich ochraceous 

 markings in the S replaced by pale greenish yellow. 



Exp. S 2 38-52 mm. (1-5-2-02"). 



Hab. The Himalayas at high elevations from Kumaun to the 

 Chumbi Valley, east of Sikhim ; Tibet. 



438. Argynnis clara, Blanchard, in Jacquemont, Voij. dans Vlnde, iv r 

 1844, p. 20, Ins. pi. 2, figs. 2. 3, <$ • de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, 

 p. 136 ; Moore (Boloria), Lep. Lid. iv, 1889-1900, p. 253, pi. 378 

 figs. 1, la-\e, tf$. 



Race manis (PI. VII, fig. 47). 



Argynnis clara manis. Fmhstorfer, Iris, xvi, 1903, p. 41. 

 Argynnis claudia, Faivcett, Abstr. P. Z. S. June 1904, p. 8 ; id. 

 P. Z. S. 1904, p. 136, pi. 9, fig. 3. 



<S . Upperside rich ochraceous ; base of wings shaded with dusky 

 greyish brown, more broadly on the hind than on the fore wing, 

 the basal area of the hind wing also clothed with long recumbent 

 hairs. Fore and hind wings with the usual black Argynnis 

 markings and spots ; the spots of the subterminal series hastate, 

 acutely pointed on the inner side, followed by an inner slender 

 black line and an outer anticiliary similar line with an interspace 

 between them of the ochraceous ground-colour; cilia white. 

 Underside ochraceous, paler than on the upperside. Tore wing : 

 apex touched with pale green ; black markings as on the upper- 

 side, but not so clearly denned ; the anterior spots of the postdiscal 

 series more or less diffusely fuscous green, bordered on the inner 

 side by a short silvery streak with a silvery spot above and 

 below it ; the anterior subterminal hastate black marks centred 



