AEGYNNIS. 445 



Pore and hind wings : the silvery spots much narrower, the 

 subterminal spots not triangular, elongate. — $ . Very similar to 

 the 6 . Differs from elara $ in the absence of any suffusion of 

 green on the upperside, the bases of the wings are shaded with 

 brown as in the S , and the disc of the wings is ochraceous not 

 greyish brown. On the underside it is similar to its own $ . 



The pale form may be seasonal, but no dated specimens are 

 available for the determination of this point. On the upper and 

 under sides the ground-colour is a much paler ochraceous ; the 

 anterior postdiscal spots on the fore wing are, in some specimens, 

 more or less obsolescent on the upperside, and quite obsolete on 

 the underside. On the hind wing the green colour is much more- 

 restricted, leaving a conspicuous broad, curved, postdiscal band of 

 the pale ochraceous ground-colour across the wing. Antenna? 

 dark brown, ringed with white below the club, apex ochraceous ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen dark brown with a thin covering of 

 ochraceous hairs, apex of abdomen bright ochraceous ; beneath, 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen dark ochraceous brown, apex of 

 abdomen bright ochraceous. 



Exp. d 2 46-50 mm. (i-7-1'96"). 



Bab. Eecorded only from the Chumbi Valley, east of Sikhim. 



439. Argynnis altissima, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 403, pi. 25, fig. 8 d ; 

 de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 139 ; Moore (Boloria), Lep. Ind. iv, 

 1899-1900, p. 250, pi. 377, figs. 2, 2 a, $ . 



Race mackinnoni. 



Argynnis mackinnoni, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. N. B. Soc. vi, 

 1891, p. 346, pi. F, figs. 4, 5, S $ ; Moore (Boloria), Lep. Ltd. 

 iv, 1899-1900, p. 252, pi. 377, figs. 3, 3 a, <$ $ . 



c5 . Upperside from pale fulvous yellow to rich fulvous tawny ; 

 base of wings dark brown, this colour on the hind wing extends down- 

 wards on the posterior half, which is clothed with long recumbent 

 hairs. Fore and hind wings with black markings disposed as in most 

 of the Indian forms of Argynnis, but on both wings the spots of 

 the subterminal series are bordered on the outer side by a series of 

 small spots paler than the ground-colour of the wings ; on the 

 fore wing these spots are confined to the anterior half of the wing, 

 on the hind wing they are continuous from costa to dorsum. 

 Underside fore wing : ground-colour paler ; a dark red, inwardly 

 directed, short fascia from apex, inclined obliquely inwards and 

 margined slenderly with black, on the inner side this is bordered 

 by a conspicuons silvery-white spot, on the outer side by a series 

 of very slender short silvery streaks decreasing in length and 

 turning to yellowish posteriorly ; the black markings as on the 

 upperside, but less clearly defined ; the terminal black edging to 

 the wing obsolescent. Hind wing : ground-colour pale yellow ; 

 some cinnabar-red markings in interspace 7, in cell and along the 

 terminal margin, interposed between the following silvery- white 



