448 :ntmphalld,e. 



other forms of Argynms, apex distinctly but obtusely angulate, 

 not rounded. — $ . Upperside fulvous tawny, base of fore and 

 base and posterior half of the hind wing 

 brownish black, this colour not extending to 

 the toraus. Fore wing with the usual black 

 markings, the black edge to the termen narrow- 

 ing posteriorly. Hind wing : an anterior zigzag 

 discal line composed of slender transverse spots, 

 angulated outwards in interspace 4, and 

 coalescing below with the basal dark brown 

 Fi gl patch; postdiscal and subterminal transverse 



Argy nnis pales, S- l- rows of spots, the latter triangular, followed 

 by a terminal black line ; cilia pale fulvous, 

 alternated with brown. Underside fore wing reddish ochraceous ; 

 black markings generally obsolescent, far less clearly defined than 

 in most of the other forms of the genus ; apex and termen yellow, 

 a short fascia from apex inclined obliquely inwards and the apices 

 of the veins anteriorly cinnabar-red. Hind wing : ground-colour 

 slightly paler than that of the fore wing ; markings very variable ; 

 an irregular patch of dark cinnabar-red at base extending well into 

 the cell, its outer margin sinuous, bordered outwardly by curved 

 broad markings of silvery white ; a discal, very sinuous, slender, 

 similarly coloured band, bordered outwardly in interspaces 1 and 2 

 and in 6 and 7 by silvery-white lunules : postdiscal transverse 

 series of dark red spots followed by a terminal series of silvery- 

 white spots in the interspaces, set in a cinnabar-red back- 

 ground : the space between the silvery -white spots along the 

 outer margin of the red basal patch, and the terminal row of 

 silvery spots, suffused with paler cinnabar-red, the yellow ground- 

 colour prominent only in interspace 1 near its apex, and in inter- 

 space 3 between the discal narrow band and the terminal series 

 of silvery spots. Antenna? ochraceous brown ; club black, tipped 

 with ochraceous ; head, thorax and abdomen black with some dark 

 fulvous pubescence ; beneath, palpi and thorax dark ochraceous, 

 abdomen whitish. — $ • Similar, the black markings broader. 

 Upperside : the subterminal series of spots coalescing along the 

 veins with the terminal black line on both fore and hind wing, 

 enclosing between them a series of conspicuous pale spots ; a large 

 pale subcostal spot also on the inner side of the postdiscal row of 

 black spots on the fore wing ; cilia conspicuously white, alternated 

 with black. Underside similar to that in the d" , but on the fore 

 wing the yellow on apex and termen much broader; on the hind 

 wing the ground-colour pale yellow, concolorous with that on the 

 apex of the fore wing. Markings similar to those in the 6 , but 

 broader, the suffusion of pale cinnabar-red between the markings 

 darker and more restricted, allowing more of the ground-colour to 

 show through. 



Exp. 6 2 38-42 mm. (1-5-1-65"). 



Hab. The Himalayas ; recorded from Kashmir, Kulu and the 



