ARGTN^IS. 447 



cilia alternately black and white. Underside fore wing ground- 

 colour ochraceous, the costal margin, the apex and the ternien 

 anteriorly pale yellow ; the black spots as on the upperside, the 

 anterior spots of the postdiscal series centred with white ; the spots 

 of the subterminal series small, somewhat hastate, the yellowish 

 terminal margin beyond crossed by the black veins. Hind wing : 

 ground-colour pale yellow ; two irregular basal well-defined and 

 two postdiscal somewhat diffuse blotches cinnabar-red; of the 

 basal blotches the upper much the smaller ; the red of the post- 

 discal blotches continued obscurely along the veins to the margin ; 

 also the following silvery-white markings : a streak in interspace 1 

 divided by a red and lower down by a yellowish spot, a costal spot 

 followed by a larger quadrate mark indented on both sides, an 

 elongate spot crossing from apex of cell into base of interspace 4 ; 

 a postdiscal curved series of round and a terminal series of quad- 

 rate spots, the former encircled with black, the latter separated 

 by dark chestnut-brown transverse spots and bordered inwardly 

 by a series of short similarly-coloured lunules. Antennae dark 

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

 thorax and abdomen dusky ochraceous. — $ differs from the c? as 

 follows: — Upperside ground-colour paler, much paler along the 

 apical third of the costa and at the apex of the fore wing ; the 

 pale spots between the subterminal and terminal markings more 

 prominent than in the <$ . 



Exp. S 2 42-50 mm. (1-65-2"). 



Hab. Kashmir. 



Yar. chitralensis, Moore, is slightly smaller judging from the four 

 or five specimens I have had an opportunity of examining. In 

 three the blotchings of red on the underside of the hind wing are 

 more extensive and spread over the greater portion of the wing ; 

 the yellow ground -colour limited to the middle of interspaces 3 

 and 4; also the silvery-white markings are comparatively smaller. 

 If these differences are constant, chitralensis may form a definite 

 local race of the Kashmir form. 



Exp. S 38-42 mm. (1-5-1-67"). 



Hab. Chitral. 



441. Argyimis pales. Denis § Schif. (Papilio) Wien. Vera, 1776. 



p. 177. 

 Argynnis sipora, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 568, pi. 66, fig. 119- 



de N. Butt. Lid. ii, 1889, p. 139, pi. 18, fig. 72 J 9. ; Moore 



(Boloria), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 244, pi. 375, figs. 2, 2 a, 



2d,J2. 

 Argyimis baralacha, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 242, pi. xi, fig. 1, 1 a, tf . 



Race generator. 



Argyimis generator, Staudinyer (pales, var. generator), Stett. ent. 

 Zeit. 1886, p. 235; Moore (Boloria), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900 

 p. 245, pi. 376, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, <$ $ . 



J <j> . Costal margin of hind wing slightly straighter than in the 



