1885.] 245 



whitish, somewhat indistinct, line. The durk sub-marginal line, also edged pos- 

 teriorly with white, is finely and frequently toothed, and extends from just in front 

 of the apex into the anal angle. The sub-costal, median, and inner marginal veins 

 are reddish, and intersect all the markings. 



The grey posterior- wings have the median and sub-marginal lines darker, and a 

 central dark spot, which latter is wanting in the anterior-wings. The hind-margins 

 of both the anterior- and posterior-wings have a white-spotted line edged interiorly 

 by a dark spotted line. 



The fringes are grey, tesselated with brown, and sometimes have a pale divisional 

 line. The ^ measures 19—20^ mm. ; the ? 20—21 mm. 



The ? presents no difference from the ^ , except that it is rather 

 stouter, and the white lines are throughout more marked. 



This species was common at Lambessa in March. I possess four 

 specimens. Dr. Staudinger tells me that he thinks this may be a 

 local form of artemisiata, Const., if so, it will rank as a variety of that 

 species ; it may, however, prove to be itself a good species. 



{To he continued.) 



O^ THE DISTINCTNESS OF AULOCERA SCYLLA FEOM 



A. BEAHMINUS. 



BY ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S , &c. 



In the fourth volume of this Magazine (p. 122), I described a 

 species of AuJocera under the name of A. Scylla, the habitat for which 

 was given in our register as near Silhet, and I mentioned that I had 

 seen three specimens of the species. 



In the same volume, at p. 247, Colonel Lang described a second 

 species under the name of Aulocera Werang from the Werang Pass, 

 Upper Kunawur and from Kashmir. 



The species described by Lang turned out subsequently to be the 

 same as that figured by Blanchard as the male of his A. hrahminus, 

 which name, therefore, superseded it. 



In the first volume of their work on the Butterflies of India, 

 Messrs. Marshall and De Niceville regard A. loeranga (sic) as a variety 

 of A. Irahminus, and A. Sci/IIa as a second variety scarcely separable 

 from it : they make the following observations regarding the two so- 

 called varieties : — 



" Colonel Lang in describing A. weranga writes, that, ' it differs 

 from (the description of) A. Scylla by its paler colour, larger size, 

 more sinuated margins, and the want of the exterior series of white, 

 black-encircled spots ; the whitish dots of A. iveranga being only two 

 or three in number, very small and indistinct.' Mr. Butler adds. 



