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from the latter place. As this sex has not been previously recorded I 
append a description : — 
Female. Greenish grey, with a slight fulvous tingo here and there ; the hasal half of the primaries, 
basal half of secondaries, and outer niiirgiiial area of all the wings are blackish ; the latter 
enclosing a series of whitish spots. Under surface paler than that of the male; secondaries 
and apices of primaries greenish yellow. 
Expanse 48 millim. 
In one male specimen from Ilow-kow most of the spots forming the usual 
central and outer bands are absent cm primaries, and those of the secondaries 
veiy minute ; tlie primaries have a conspicuous black mark about the middle 
of the submedian interspace. 
This species is a member of the group of Argynnis which includes the four 
following species : — A. clara, Blanchard *, from the Province of Tihi-i 
Garhwal, North-west Himalayas, occurring at an altitude of 12,000 feet ; 
A. gemmata, Butler f , and A. aUissima, Elwes J, which are both found in 
Native Sikkim at high elevations ; and A. mackinnonii, de Niceville §, from 
Basahar, North-west Himalajas, 11,000 feet. 
Argynnis latonia. 
Papilio lathonia, Linnaeus^ Syst. Nat. xii. p. 786 (1767) ; Hiibuer, Eur. Schmett. 
i. figs. 59, 60 (1793?), fig. 613 (1823?); Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur. i. 
figs. 153-154 (1844). 
Argyymis latonia, Godart, Enc. Metli. ix. j). 267 (1819) ; KoUar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 
pt. 2, p. 440 (1848). 
Argynnis lathonia, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 207, pi. xlix. fig. 2 (1884) ; de Niceville, Butt. 
Ind. ii. p. 137 (1886). 
Argynnis isaea, Gray, Lep. lus. Nepal, p. 11 (1846) ; Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 
Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 156 (1857). 
" Male. Upperside fulvous, with black spots ; fore wing with the base, costa, and inner margin, 
hind wing with the basal and abdominal area widely, mottled with darker-coloured scales. 
Fore wing with a reniform spot enclosing a portion of the ground-colour, a transverse spot 
beyond, and one closing the end of the cell. A discal twice-angled series, with an additional 
spot towards the base in the submedian interspace ; a suffused subcostal spot ; a submarginal 
series of six spots, of which the three upper ones are small and round, the three lower largei 
and less regularly shaped ; a marginal row of lunules ; a black marginal band bearing a 
* Jacquemont's Voy. dans I'lude, iv. p. 20, lusectes, pi. ii. figs. 2, 3 (1S44). 
t Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. p. 32, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1881). 
J Proc. Zool. 8oc. Lend. 1882, p. 403, pi. xxv. fig. 8. 
§ Bomb. Nat. Hist. Journ. vi. p. 346, pi. F. figs. 4 cJ , 5 $ (1891). 
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