Polytremis discreta, the Himalayan swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.A small, brown skipper with distinct white or dirty white spots on its wings. The spot in cell 2 shorter in proportion, its inner and outer edges nearly parallel. The ground-colour of the underside and the fringes, especially those of the hind wing, paler.
Murree to Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malaya, Yunnan