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I will not attempt to inform M. de Niceville respecting the fauna 

 of the Murree (or Murri) hills ; he is resident in India, has the fauna, 

 the altitudes, the climate of every place at his fingers' ends, and can, 

 therefore, afford to look down with profound pity upon those who do 

 not possess his advantages ; but I will tell the readers of this magazine 

 that there must be a considerable difference of temperature between 

 6000 and 7000 feet altitude above the sea, and much more between 

 7000 and 12,000 ; that, moreover, there are not a few genera occurring 

 on the Murri hills which are found equally on the plains, such as, 

 Lethe, 'Pyrameis, Atella, Lihijtliea, Lyccena, Teracolus, Colzas, &c., that 

 as Aulocera is not (as M. de Niceville asserts) a Palsearctic genus, but 

 only allied to one, with about as much right to be called Palsearctic as 

 Lethe: as the latter also is found from the N.W. Himalayas to 

 the Philippine Islands, there is nothing very extraordinary in my 

 "ignorant" suggestion, nor is it unprecedented to find the same 

 species on both mountain and plain ; on the contrary, several natural- 

 ists are now trying to explain the existence of slight local differences 

 in the same species by the influence exerted over it by greater or less 

 cold, and one constantly hears it said: — "this large form, or this 

 modification, is the mountain type of so-and-so." 

 British Museum : Octoher, 1885. 



[We had intended to close this controversy with this paper, but 

 fresh matter, apparently of considerable value, comes to hand. Un- 

 fortunately, we have been obliged to take liberties with nearly all the 

 communications (Mr, Butler's included) so far as concerns the 

 infringement of the terms of the motto on our cover (and on the 

 title-page of vol. i, 186i — 5). And all future communications w411 be 

 treated in the same manner, if necessary, — Ebitoes,] 



REMAEKS UPON CERTAIN HIMALAYAN SPECIES OF SATYRID 

 RROPALOCERA. 



BY A. GRAHAM-TOUNG. 



Having seen a paper by Mr. A, G-, Butler (in the Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 for this year, p. 245) upon the distinctness of his so-called s^^ecies, 

 Aulocera Scylla, it has struck me that a few remarks upon the genus 

 Aulocera, based upon my personal acquaintance with it of over 20 

 years, might possibly be of use. I may add that I have for the past 

 17 years resided all the year round in the Himalayas, and have col- 

 lected in Kashmir, Chumba, Kulu and Lahoul, at all heights up to 

 iiearlv 16,000 feet. 



