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darker point. Hindwing with a few black scales at the base; a large red lower 
discocellular spot, variable in size ; the outer angle between the lower veins and its 
adjacent cilia ferruginous-red. Underside pale olivescent-yellow; the extreme 
marginal markings paler red ; the discocellular spots being purple-brown with a pale 
centre. Forewing basally tinged with pale sulphur-yellow. Hindwing with the sub¬ 
costal median and submedian vein thickened, and densely clothed with raised modified 
scales. Body , legs, and palpi, pale yellow; abdomen above blackish ; thorax above 
clothed with long silky-white hairs ; antennas reddish. 
Female. Uppersidepale olivescent-white ; extreme marginal markings blackish ; 
discocellular spot paler. Underside pale olivescent-white ; discocellular spot similar ; 
basal area of forewing white. Hindwing with the subcostal median and submedian 
vein thickened and scaled as in male. 
Expanse, S 9 2^- to 2| inches. 
Habitat. —N. W. Himalayas ; Nepal. 
Distribution. —Capt. A. M. Lang records it as being “abundant in the N. W. 
Himalayas from 3,000 to 10,000 feet elevation ” (P.Z.S. 1865,493). “It is very 
common in gardens at Kasauli; also in woods all the way to Kotgarh” (id. MS. 
Notes). Mr. W. S. Atkinson possessed specimens taken at Fir Pinjal and Wardwun 
Valley, Kasclirnir. Dr. G. B. Longstaff found it very “ abundant in October, 
throughout the journey from Simla (7,200 feet) to Fagu (8,200 feet), being 
especially common at Theog, 7,400 feet elevation (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1905, p. 64). 
Mr. P. W. Mackinnon found it “very common in Masuri from April to November ; 
the larva feeds on Rhamnus Dahuricus (N.O. Rhamnem) ” (J. Bombay N. H. S. 
1898, 589). Mr. H. Grose-Smith has specimens taken in Gilgit. It was also 
“taken in Chitral during the Pamir Boundary Mission ” (Report, p. 43). Specimens 
from Narkunda, taken by Capt. H. McArthur, are in Mr. J. H. Leech’s 
Collection. Males from Ladak, and from Shashi Kuh Valley, Chitral, are 
in the British Museum. Col. J. W. Yerbury found it “ common round Campbell- 
pur in the spring; also in the Chacli Plain on the banks of the Indus, at 
Murree, and Thundiani. Specimens were also taken at Akhor and Chittar Pahar in 
April, at Hassan Abdal in May, and at Thundiani in August” (Ann. N. IT. 1888, 
199). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in “ Kurnaon generally, from 3,000 to 8,000 feet 
elevation” (Journ. A. S. Beng. 1886, 136). We possess specimens from Nepal, 
taken by Gen. G. Ramsay. It is not recorded from Sikkim by Mr. Elwes or by 
Mr. de Niceville. 
C0LIAS ZANEKA. 
Plate 560, fig. 1, la lb, c $ . 
Gonepteryx Zanekci , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 493, pi. 31, fig. 18, J. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. 
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