LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
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the female; submarginal black border narrow and traversed by a single pale lunular 
line. Hindwing with the black base bordered outwardly by clear yellow, the sub¬ 
marginal row of blue-centred black dentate spots slightly, or in most, narrowly 
bordered inwardly by the dusky band. Underside much darker than in Kashmirensis; 
markings similar. 
Expanse, <$ 9 1^ 0 to 2 inches. 
Habitat. —N.-W. Himalayas. 
Disteibution. —The type specimen was taken at Chini, at 9000 feet elevation, 
Middle Kunawur, in October, Capt. A. M. Lang also obtained it in Kunawur, at 
10,000 feet elevation, and Dr. Jerdon at Gulmurg in Kashmir. Capt. H. B. Hellard 
took it in the “ Rupin Pass at about 13,000 feet elevation in September, another seen 
near top of the Pass, which is about 15,000 feet elevation” (MS. Notes). Col. C. 
Swinhoe has examples from Kulu. In Mr. J. H. Leech’s Collection are specimens 
from Sultanpur, Kulu, taken by Capt. Graham Young ; the Goorais Valley, 7000 feet 
elevation, Kashmir, taken in June; Dugi Pass, 12,000 feet, taken in August and 
September by Capt. Thompson, and from the Kuti Pass, 17,000 feet elevation, taken 
in September by Capt. McArthur. Mr. L. de Niceville records “ a few specimens, 
obtained from time to time at very high elevations in native Sikkim, by native 
collectors ” (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 145). 
AGLAIS LADAKENSIS (Plate 317, fig. 2, 2a, ? ). 
Vanessa Ladakensis , Moore, Annals Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 227; Yarkund Exped. Lep. p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 2 
(1879). Elwes, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 403. Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 122. 
de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 234 (1886). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 362. 
Male and female. Nearest allied to A. Rizana. Both wings with the outer 
margin less angled. Upperside with similarly-disposed markings, the black 
markings somewhat duller and less sharply defined and the red colour less intense. 
Forewing with the two upper black bands merging into or being confluent with the 
discal oblique band below the cell; the outer yellow band from the costa is wider 
and extends across the wing to the posterior margin, enclosing the two small black 
discal spots, this band being diffusedly-bordered with red outwardly and inwardly 
below the median veinlets; the subbasal red band is narrower. On the hindwing 
the black basal area has its discal edge more irregular and more diffusedly yellow- 
bordered. Other markings similar. Underside. Ground-colour much paler than 
n A. Rizana , the strigse also paler, the cell interspaces between the bars and the 
discal transverse fascia of the forewing more defined, the black discal line on hind¬ 
wing more irregular. 
