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main valley, not occurring in any of the lateral ravines ; only on one 

 occasion did I meet with A. cajula as high as 12,000, when I captured 

 a solitary specimen on a grassy plateau, called Kanor Tunka, 17 milea 

 east o£ Koksur, in August, 1874. It is diurnal in its habits, flying 

 with an undulating flight, between the hours of 7 and 11 in the forenoon, 

 when it drops down into the herbage. The high wind that springs up 

 daily in Lahoul, and blows from noon till sunset, is probably the cause 

 of this. 



The larva is abundant in July on dock and sorrel, it is a perfect 

 miniature " woolly-bear," differing in no one respect, save size, from 

 that of A. ccija, 



AVhen full fed it forms a loose cocoon by drawing two or three 

 leaves together, and changes into a bright chestnut pupa. The imago 

 emerges in from 12 to 14 days. The best time for it is from the 1st 

 to the 20th August, when it begins to disappear. 



Larva of Aulocera SwaJia. — I have during the present year, at last, 

 after many years' hunting, succeeded in discovering the larva of one of 

 the AulocercB — A. SivaJta. I found it on the wild blue Iris the first 

 week in August, at about 8000 feet in the upper Parbutti valley, 

 Kulu. The larva seems black, but is so very thickly clothed with 

 short bright yellow hairs, that it is almost impossible to see what its 

 ground colour really is ; head and legs black. It attaches itself to 

 the centre of the leaf by the tail, and a bright yellow thread across 

 the pupa, head upwards, like a Lycsenid. 



The pupa is shining olive-brown above, head, spines and tail, black, 

 a white patch crossed by an irregular black band upon each side of the 

 thorax, a circular yellow spot on each shoulder, on each side of the 

 dorsal segments is an irregular white mark. 



I am sending home a dead pupa for exhibition, but the colours, 

 very vivid in the living pupa, fade rapidly upon the death of the insect. 

 The imago emerges in a fortnight. 



For the benefit of such of your readers as may possess Marshall 

 andDe Nieeville's "Butterflies of India,"I make the following additions 

 to our Kulu lists ; at the time that Vol. 1 was published, I had not, 

 for want of specimens, discriminated these species : — 



Danaid^ : Danias Aglea (one only). 



Satyeid^ : Orinoma Damaris, Zophoessa Tama, Rhaphicera Satrictis, 

 Mycalesis Lepcha, Callerehia Scanda. 



Kulu, Punjab : 



August IGih, 1886. 



