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hue : neai-er the outer border is a very irregular row of neatly-defiued 

 ocelli, haviug black pupils with grey centres and yellow irides encircled 

 with black. 



This peculiar and handsome species of Apatura was found in the 

 Motagua Valley, Guatemala. 



(To he continued.) 



NOTES ON THE DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 



BY CAPTAIIf A. M. LANG. 



r^Vith descriptions of new species by F. Moore.) 



(Continued from page 104.) 



Danais Chrysippus. — Every where very abundant; larva on Oalotropis. 



D. Plexippus. — Tolerably abundant everywhere. 



D. Limniacce and D. Melissa. — Same localities as above. 



D. Tytia. — Entirely Himalayan. Obtained in wooded glens 6,000 

 to 7,000 ft. altitude. Flight high and soaring. 



Telchinia Violce. — Seen only at Lucknow in the hot dry season, 

 when it is rather abundant, frequenting fields of lucerne. Of slow 

 flight and easy capture. 



Cethosia Cyane. — A single specimen only obtained in a wild jungly 

 spot on the Gogra in Oudh. 



Atella Phalanta. — Tolerably abundant in Oudh, at Umballa, and 

 in the Himalaya up to 8,000 ft. elevation. Larva reared on Flacourtia sp.{?) 



Argynnis Niphe. — Tolerably abundant in certain localities, 6,000 

 to 8,000 ft. in the Himalaya. The males seem much more abundant 

 than the females. 



A. Jainadeva.* — Taken only at Cheeni, in Kunawar, in the Hima- 

 laya, 10,000 ft. elevation, flying fast over the meadows and j)itching on 

 tall blossoms of Cruciferae. 



A. Isscea. — Very abundant in the Himalaya, 5,000 to 8,000 ft., at 

 all seasons of the year ; even in winter, when snow lies deep on shel- 

 tered slopes, this insect may be seen on open sunny sites. 



A. Kamala. — N.W. Himalaya. 



* Argynnii Jainadeva, Moore, n. sp. — Upper-side rich fulvous, and marked very much as In A 

 Niphe. Under-surface palest alon^ tlie costal half, flind-wing wifh the basal portion green, and 

 having the spots similar to those in A. Adippe, oxccptins that in A. Jainadeva the marginal series are 

 narrower, and the basal reduced to mere clots. The whole of (he spots are, as In female of that species, 

 brightly silvered. Pbspans. 2\". 



