PAMPHILA. 



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Genus PAMPHILA. 

 Pamphila, Fabricius, Illigcr's Magazin, vi. p. 287 (1807) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lotid. 1893, p. 89. ly^c, palcemon, Pall. 

 Steropes, Boisduval, Yoy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 107 (1832). Norn, prseoc. 

 Carterocephulus, Lederer, Verb, zool.-bot. Gcs. Wieu, ii. pp. 26, 49. Type, pahemon, Pall. 



"Antenna short, not half the length of costa ; club stout, elongate, blunt. Palpi porrect, 

 densely clothed with laxly set scales almost concealing the third joint, which is short, 

 slender, and bluntly conical. Fore wing: inner margin considerably longer than outer 

 margin ; cell less than two thirds the length of eosta ; vein 12 reaching costa before the end 

 of cell ; upper discocellular short but distinct, outwardly oblique ; middle discocellular 

 slightly longer than lower ; vein 5 slightly nearer to 4 than to 6 : vein 3 very close to end of 

 cell; vein 2 almost equidistant from base of wing and end of cell. Hind wing; outer 

 margin even ; cell very long, reaching more than half across wing ; vein 7 shortly before 

 end of cell; discocelliilars and vein .5 barely traceable; vein 3 immediately before end of 

 cell ; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. No epiphysis on fore 

 tibiae. Hind tibia) slightly fringed, and with only terminal pair of spurs. 



" Distrihution. Holarctic." ( Watson, I. c.) 



Mr. Watson adds that although six or seven hundred species have been 

 described in this genus, probably only about five of them correctly belong to 

 it. The remainder include species belonging to almost every described 

 genus. 



Pamphila argyrostigma. 



Carterocephalus ary?//-os/?^?/m, Eversmann, Bull. Mosc. 1851, li. p. 624; Lang, Butt. 

 Eur. p. 360 (1884) ; Alpheraky, Rom. sur Lep. v. p. 123 (1889). 



■' Slightly smaller than C. palcemnn. Wings brownish black. Fore wings with three large 

 yellow spots touching the costa, reaching to the centre of the wing and decreasing in size 

 towards the base ; below these and alternating with them so as to produce a chequered 

 pattern are two similar spots touching the inner margin. Hind wings with three small 

 yellowish-ochreous spots near the hind margin and a continuous band of smaller spots 

 towards the base. Underside : fore wings as above, but the ochreous spots are larger. Hind 

 wings reddish brown, with two large central silver spots and some smaller ones near the 

 base and the hind margin. Marginal fringes orange ; head and collar yellowish orange ; 

 thorax dark brown ; abdomen black, with an orange anal tuft." {Lawj, I. c.) 



Alpheraky records a specimen taken in the province of Kan-sou, N.W. 

 China. The type of this species came from Kiachta. Graeser met with it 

 at Pokrofka at the beginning of June, and it has been found also in other 

 parts of Amurland and Trans-Baikal. M. Grum-Grshimailo sent me a 

 specimen from the Tetung Mountains in E. Thibet. My collectors failed to 

 meet ■with it in China. 



