28 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
remarking that “it appears, however, to be very rare, as I have seen but three speci- 
mens ; these were all taken by me at an altitude of 12,000 feet, about 1000 feet below 
the bleak and bare summit of the Werang Pass, amidst the rocky, grassy ground 
just clear of the forests of pine and cedars. Dr. Jerdon obtained a single specimen 
at Goolmurg, 9000 feet above the Valley of Cashmere.” he authors of “ Butterflies 
of India, &c.” (p. 199) state that ‘ A. Brahminus is found, so far as we have any 
certain knowledge, only in the N.-W. Himalayas at from 7000 to 13,000 feet eleva- 
tion. Mr, Graham Young took numerous specimens in 1880, in June, on the Ser-ka- 
joth in North Mandi, two miles south of the Kulu frontier, and forty miles south of 
the snowy range at barely 8000 feet elevation ; these were typical Brahminus. Mr. 
de Nicéville found it very plentifully on the banks of the Chandra Bhaga river, in 
July, near Koksir on the borders of Lahul at 7000 feet elevation, and again at Kailing 
in Lahul at about 9000 feet in the same month; all these specimens being of the 
Weranga form with the ochreous predominating on the underside, and one, a female, 
from Kailang, has the nervures powdered with white scales and the whitish black- 
encircled spots of Scylla. In Lahul, specimens were taken by the Rev. A. Heyde, at 
Patseo, 11,000 feet, in July, which differ from the usual form in the great predomi- 
nance of the grey irrorations. In Pangi, on the Sach Pass, Mr. R. Ellis took at an 
elevation of 13,000 feet, in August and September, some examples in which the pre- 
vailing ochreous is beautifully contrasted with the grey markings, and dark brown 
strie ; the veins in these are powdered with white, as in Scylla; and finally a large 
series were taken by Mrs. Bazett at Goolmurg, in Kashmir, in July at from 9000 to 
10,000 feet elevation, showing every gradation between typical Brahminus and typical 
Weranga.’ Mr. de Nicéville (Indian Agriculturist, January Ist, 1880) states that 
“it always settles on the ground with its wings closed, and then shuts the upper 
wings into the lower ones, so that only the lower wings and the extreme tips of the 
upper are visible.” Major H. B. Hellard obtained it at “ Pangi, in Busahir, in July 
and August, and in Cashmere in August and September” (MS. notes). Mr. J. H. 
Leech obtained specimens in the Deosi plains in August, 1887. 
AULOCERA SCYLLA. 
Aulocera Scylla, Butler, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1867, p. 122, ¢. 
Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 118. 
Male. ‘ Upperside blackish-fuscous, with a whitish discal fascia, macular on 
the forewing, slender and obsolete near the anal angle on the hindwing, bifureate at 
the apex of forewing, and including an oval black spot. Cilia whitish, variegated 
with black. Underside paler, covered with blackish striz ; the subapical spot of fore- 
wing ocellated ; hindwing very slightly yellowish, an outer discal series of whitish 
spots tinged outwardly with black, the discal fascia distinct at the analangle. Most 
