PAMPHILA. 585 
Genus PAMPHILA. 
Pamphila, Fabricius, Illiger's Magaziu, vi. p. 287 (1807) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond. 1893, p. 89. Type, ^atemow, Pall. 
Steropes, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 167 (1832). Nom. pr:eoc. 
Carterocephalus, Lederer, Verb, zool.-bot. Gas. Wieu, ii. pp. 2G, 19. Type, puloimon, Pall. 
" Antenns 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 costa : vein 12 reaching costa before the end 
of cell ; upper diseocellular 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; discocellulars 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 
tibise. Hind tibine slightly fringed, and with only terminal pair of spurs. 
'^Distribution. 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 arffyrosti(/7na, HYersmann, Hull. Mosc. 1851, li. p. 624; Lang, Butt. 
Eur. p. 360 (1884) ; Alpheraky, Rom. sur L^p. v. p. 123 (1889). 
" Slightly smaller than C. palmmon. 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-oohreous 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." {Lamj, 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 witli 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. 
