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A CATALOGUE OF THE IIETEROCERA OF SIKHIM 



AND BHUTAN, 

 By G. C. Dudgeon, f.e.s., 



With Notes by H. J. Elwes, f.r.s., &c, 



and 

 Additions by Sir George Hampson, Bart., b.a,, f.e.s,, &c, 



Part XV. 



(Continued from page 763, Vol. XIV.) 



Family EPICOPIID^. 

 Genus Epicopia, Westw. 



3017. E. polydora, Westw. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, 2,000 — 5,000 feet. This Is not uncommon in 

 parts of Darjeeling, flying during the day and sucking the flowers of 

 tea and other plants in the manner of Papilionid^e of the philoxenus 

 group. Its action of settling upon flowers with its wings steady, instead 

 of quivering, makes it generally recognisable from the Papilionid^e 

 at a short distance. I have found it most commonly at Tukvar and 

 at Badamtam, where I also procured the larva which is white and 

 curiously dotted with long waxy efflorescence. (I think it is quite 

 possible, as Mr. Dudgeon says of E. philenora, that this species and 

 the next may be one, but my own knowledge of them is insuffi- 

 cient. — H. J. E.) 



3018, E. p7iilenora, Westw. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, 2,000 — 5,000 feet. Rather rarer than the last 

 I think, but found with it and having the same habits. It resembles 

 one of the black Papilionid^e, probably most like P. astorion, West- 

 wood. The hind wings of both this species and the last vary extremely 

 in shape and markings, and I think it probable that they may both be 

 found referable to one species. This cannot be proved, however, until 

 they have been bred upon a large scale. The moth flies throughout the 

 monsoon on bright days. 



Family URANIID^. 



Genus Nyctalemon, Dalman. 



3019. N. patroclus, Linn. 



Sikhim and Bhutan, 1,800—2,500 feet. Rather rare. I have only 



seen it on the wing on three occasions. Once in the valley of the 



Chel river, in British Bhutan, flying by day in a shady ravine, and 



twice disturbed from low herbage and flying in bright sunlight at 

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