446 KTMPHALIDJE. 



spots and lines : a line on the dorsal margin, undivided streaks 

 from base in interspaces 1 a and 1, a basal medial and apical spot 

 in cell, a basal and two medial spots in interspace 7, a spot at base 

 of costal margin, an inner and an outer series of obscure small 

 discal spots, interrupted in interspace 4 by a broad elongate spot 

 at the base in continuation of the apical cell-spot ; a postdiscal 

 transverse series of black spots irrorated with silver scales ; and a 

 terminal series of elongate narrow silvery spots ; the silvery-white 

 spots more or less margined on one or both sides by slender black 

 lines. Antennae black tipped with ochraceous ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark brown ; beneath, the palpi and thorax ochraceous, 

 abdomen whitish. — $ . Upperside : ground-colour and markings 

 similar, the former slightly paler ; the series of small whitish spots 

 interposed between the subterminal and terminal markings very 

 prominent, complete on both fore and hind wings. Underside 

 similar to that of the $ , the markings on both fore and hind 

 wings slightly larger. 



Exp. <$ 2 34-36 mm. (1-33-1-42"). 



Hob. Sikhim, the Chumbi Valley, 10,000-15,000 ft. ; Bhutan. 



Race mackinnoni, de Mceville, very closely resembles altissima but 

 differs as follows : — <$ 2 . Upperside : the series of small pale spots 

 interposed between the subterminal and terminal black markings 

 smaller and rounder, in the $ almost white and very prominent. 

 Underside : the white subapical spots on fore wing smaller ; the 

 cinnabar-red markings on the hind wing more extensive, distributed 

 as follows: — space between the silvery discal markings in inter- 

 spaces 5, 6 and 7 reddish in addition to the other red basal marks, 

 a curved band of red beyond apex of cell, and a terminal similar 

 l)and with terminal silvery-white spots placed thereon. These 

 spots comparativelv shorter and more oval than in altissima. 



Exp. S 2 38-40 mm. (1-5-1-59"). 



Hob. Western Himalayas, the Gonass Pass, 15,000 ft. 



440. Argynnis jerdoni, Lang,Ent. Month. Mag. v, 1868, p. 34 : de N. 

 Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 140 ; Moore (Boloria), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899- 

 1900, p. 247, pi. 376, figs. 4, 4 a, 4 b, <$ 2 • 

 Boloria chitralensis, Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 249, pi. 376, 

 figs. 3, 3 «, $ . 



<3 . Upperside rich fulvous ; base of fore wing and along inter- 

 space 1 a, also basal half of hind wing, brownish black, on the latter 

 wing this colour extends to and coalesces with the discal series of 

 spots. Tore wing with the black markings disposed as in all forms of 

 Argynnis, the spots comparatively large ; the anterior spots of the 

 postdiscal series much smaller than the spots of the same series in 

 interspaces 1, 2 and 3 ; the subterminal series of spots very small, 

 triangular. Hind wing : the postdiscal series of spots well-defined. 

 Fore and hind wings : the termen with an anticiliary black line 

 widening inwards at the veins ; the ground-colour between the 

 subterminal and terminal markings pale, forming a series of spots ; 



