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NOTES ON THE DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 



BY CAPTAIN A. M. LAN a. 



CWith descriptions of new species hy F. Moore.) 



Of the genus OrnWwptera I have seen but a single example 

 of one species, O. Pompeius, which was captured in a garden at Luck- 

 now, in Sept., 1860. 



Papilio Diphilus. — Occurs in Oadh ; rare at TJmballa, but not 

 observed in the Himalaya. 



P. Pammon and Polytes. — Common in Oudh, more rarely in the 

 Himalaya, and at low elevations. 



P. Paris. — Abundant about springs, rivulets, and on the damp 

 saudy margins of larger streams, in all parts of the Jf.W. Himalaya, 

 at least, as far as the crossing of the Sutlej at Wangtoo ; but as we 

 approach bleaker Thibetan uplands, it disappears. 



P. Urifhonius. — This is constant to the Aurantiacece ; mountains 

 and plains. 



P. Machaon. — Pretty abundant in the Himalaya, on grassy downs 

 and slopes, from 6,000 to 10,000 ft. altitude. 



P. Sar])edon. — Seen but in few places, and never more than one at 

 a time. It is bold and rapid in flight, and not easily captured. 



P. Cloanthus.—E(\ua^j rare with Sarpedon, (affecting the same 

 localities,) and can hardly be distinguished from it when on the wing. 

 I have taken both these species sitting with closed wings by the moist 

 margins of a trickling rill ; altitude, 5,000 to 7,000 ft. N.W. Himalaya. 



P. Protenor. — I have seen a considerable number of these together, 

 floating and flapping their wings lazily, and then settling on the blossoms, 

 in waste marshy ground, overgrown with Compositce (thistles). I have 

 also seen a number congregated with P. Paris, on the damp sandy 

 margins of streams in the hills. On these occasions, if distui-bed, they 

 disperse only to collect in groups again. Elevation, 4,000 to 7,000 ft. 

 N.W. Himalaya. 



P. Govindra.* — Appears rare, as I have only taken two specimens, 

 both in identically the same spot, in April, at Kussowlie, on the first 

 range of the Himalaya, 6,000 ft. altitude. Each of these individuals 

 afiected a high spray of bramble, from whence it dashed off, for a rapid 

 soar for a short distance, returning to its post. 



* Papilio Oovindra, Moore, n sp.— Allied to Pap. Agcsior, and figuriid as such by KoUar, in 

 Hugels 'Kusclimir,' (pi. 3, f. 1,2), but clifferR in being somewhat smaller, and in having the apex of 

 hind-wing rounded, whereas in P. Agestur the costal margin of the hind-wing extends considerably 

 beyond the posterior angle of the fore-wing, and terminates abruptly, thus making a complete trigonal 

 hind-wing. The markings are somewhat similar in both species, but in P. Oovindra the exterior half 

 of the hind-wing is thickish, with three well-defined series of pale spots. 



Habit, N.W. Himalaya. [Masuri, (Hugel), Kussowlie, (Lang.)] 



