8 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Carerrittar.— Apple-green, with pale yellow lateral lines. Feeds on various 
grasses.” (A. G. Young.) 
Hasitar.—N.W. and EH. Himalayas. 
Disrrisutionx.—“ This is one of the commonest butterflies of the Western 
Himalayas, extending eastwards as far as Sikkim. Mr. A. Graham Young states that 
in Kulu it is very common, appearing in July and again in September and October, 
the larva being apple-green with pale yellow lateral lines, and feeds on grasses.” 
(Butt. Ind. i.179.) According to Col. A. M. Lang (P.Z.S. 1865, 499), it is “a 
very common Himalayan species; to be seen at all seasons flitting about the rocky 
roadside in Lower Kunawar and the Simla Hills, and pitching on rocks and banks; 
more abundant on the outer ranges, on bare grassy slopes.’ In his MS. Notes, 1865, 
Col. Lang also says, ‘‘ Schakra appears within ten miles of the plains at Kussowli, 
frequenting all cliff and rocky ground. It continues for 200 miles, very scarce in 
the last fifty of this distance, and I have taken one specimen here, at Pangi; March 
to October.” Major Hellard, in his MS. Notes, records it from ‘“‘ Simla, Masuri, and 
Kashmir ; June and October.” Major J. W. Yerbury (P.Z.S. 1886, 358) records 
specimens from ‘‘ Murree, August and September; between Abbottabad and Kala 
Pani, September. Very common in August and September. Found all along the 
hills as far as Thundiani, and as low as Tret and Bugnoter; probably not above 
5000 feet elevation.” Mr. L. de Nicéville (Indian Agriculturist, January 1st, 1880), 
says, “ This insect is to be met with at all seasons and everywhere in the N.-W. 
Himalayas, flitting along rocky roads and paths, and continually settling on stones, 
etc. I have taken it in Kashmir and far up into Ladak.’ Mr. W. Doherty 
(J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 117) records it as being found in ‘* Kumaon generally, up to 
9000 feet ; seen as low as Dharchula, 3500 feet.” 
LASIOMMATA MZERULA (Plate 96, figs. 2, 2a, b, d 9). 
Lasiommata Merula, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 496, 3 (1867). 
Amecera Merula, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 126 (1868). Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. i. p. 180 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside ochreous-brown; cilia alternated with ochreous- 
white. Forewing not possessing a glandular fascia; the subapical ocellus with its 
ochreous ring larger than in L. Schakra, and only two narrow ochreous spots present 
below it, these spots being also situated somewhat further from the outer margin. 
Hindwing with two prominent median ocelli, and sometimes one or two upper 
incipient spots. Underside similar to L. Schakra. Forewing with the two cell bars 
closer together, these bars and the discocellular, and also the wavy bar beyond the 
cell, are brown, the latter being more outwardly-oblique; the slender brown outer 
