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NOTES ON THE DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 

 BY CAPTATK A. M. LANG. 



("With descriptions of new species by F. Moore.) 



{Concluded from page 133.) 



Gastalia dichroa. — Same habits and somewhat the same locality as 

 the former, but I have also seen it in open woods further in the interior 

 of the Himalaya, pitching on the sprays of tall shrubs, making rapid 

 flights, and returning to the same spot. 



Adolias Garuda. — N.-W. Himalaya. 



A. Epiona. — Frequents oak-forests at altitudes of 6,000 to 8,000 ft. 

 in the Himalaya during the rainy season (July and August). It flies 

 very swiftly over the tops of the trees with a skimming flight like a 

 swallow. Two or three may be seen chasing one another in and out of 

 the shade among the branches of the trees. They pitch abruptly, often 

 with expanded wings, basking in the sun-light, until some passing insect, 

 another Adolias or a Neptis floating near, tempts the quarrelsome species 

 to dash off, bufiet the passer by, and after a rapid skim, pitch once 

 more, suddenly, near its former resting place, and bask again. It 

 soon gets battered, and is difficult to capture. 



JVi/mpJialis Athamas. — An insect of extremely rapid flight, flashing 

 like lightning up and down rocky -bedded streams in Himalayan glens 

 (3,000 to 5,000 ft.). It pitches on rocks in mid-stream, and flashes off 

 again if approached. It is not common, and very difficult to capture ; 

 yet one very liot day in June I saw seven individuals sitting with closed 

 wings, motionless, on a foul spot (by the damp sandy margin of a stream), 

 so close together, that I might have put my hat over all of them. 

 Except on that occasion, I have only seen one at a time. 



N. Fahins. — Taken at Lucknow. 



KalUma Inachis.- — -Has a very rapid, ,rregular, " pitching-about " 

 flight, now high over tree tops — then low. It is fond of the shelter of 

 large trees, near the roots of which it sudder y pitches : and when pitched 

 you may hunt long to see it, however carefully you have watched 

 it settle, so perfectly does it resemble a icad leaf 



Dehis Europa. — A common speciee ; my examples are all Hima- 

 layan. This species I obtained at Kussowlie (6,000 ft.), frequenting 

 grassy slopes in the shade, or near hedges ; constantly pitching under 

 bushes or at roots of trees, and lying perdue. 



D. Isana. — This frequents another region 200 miles from Kussowlie; 

 in damp glens, where tall rocks cast a shadow all day, this insect is to 

 be found pitched on the rocks or at their foot, or in the rank vegeta- 

 tion near, but never seeks the broad sunshine. 



