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Show 1874.] LEPIDOPTERA OF CASHMERE. 267 15. MELANITIS ISMENE, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 26. f. A, B. 16. MELANITIS BELA, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 223. This is a very distinct species, and is confined to the N.W. Himalayas. Subfam. ACR^EINJE. 17. P A R E B A VESTA, Fabr.; Donov. Ins. t. 30. f. 1. Acraa anomala, Kollar, Hugel's Kasch. iv. pi. 3. f. 3, 4. Subfam. NYMPHALIN^E. 18. A T E L L A PHALANTA, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. i. t. 21. f. 1, 2. 19. ARGYNNIS CHILDRENI, Gray, Lep. Nepal, t. 11. 20. ARGYNNIS KAMALA, Moore, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 156. 21. ARGYNNIS JAINADEVA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, t. 30. f. 1. 22. ARGYNNIS RUDRA, Moore, Catal. E. I. C. i. p. 157. 23. ARGYNNIS NIPHE, Linn. ; Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 14. f. B-E. 24. ARGYNNIS ISS^EA, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 11. 25. ARGYNNIS CASHMIRENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 4.) Male and female. Upperside bright ferruginous, markings black and very prominent: fore wing with the costa, base, and hind margin brown; three lunular marks within and an outward curved streak closing the cell; a dentate lunule below the cell; a transverse discal confluent zigzag series of spots ; a suffused subapical patch; a submar-ginal recurved row of broad oval spots ; a marginal rowof dentate spots, and narrow exterior line which is angled on the veins: hind wing with the base brown, indistinctly streaked with black, and bordered by a distinct black zigzag lunular band ; the outer portion marked as in fore wing ; cilia alternate white and black. Underside : fore wing fulvous, apex and exterior border streaked with yellow ; markings narrower and less defined; anterior spots in submarginal and marginal rows with white dots ; a black patch at base of hind margin : hind wing dark ferruginous ; disk clouded with yellow; two small pearly-white streaks at base of wing, one above the other below the cell; a small black narrow streak at base and a white-bordered black spot within the cell; a curved median transverse band with irregular black angulated borders, composed of three pearly-white portions and yellow intervening spaces, the former disposed thus-(1) between the costal and subcostal, (2) at end of the cell and divided by the discocellular, (3) between the first and second median, the first and third being much constricted; a sub-marginal series of six white-centred black spots ; a marginal row of pearly-white quadrate spots, each well separated by a dark ferruginous streak, and bordered interiorly with a narrow blackish dentate lunule. Body above blackish brown, beneath and legs dark yellow. 18* |