LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
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Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 92, fig. 4: represents the male, from 
Dhankuri, in Kumaon, and fig. 4a, the female, from a Nepal example. 
AULOCERA PADMA (Plate 100, fig. 1, 1a, 2). 
Satyrus Padma, Kollar, in Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 445, pl. 15, figs. 1, 2 (1844), 2. 
Aulocera Padma, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1867, p. 122; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1868). Marshall 
and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 196 (1883). Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1886, 
p. 118. 
Satyrus Avatara, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 229 (1857), ¢. 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside very dark olivescent blackish-brown. Cilia alternated 
with white. Forewing with a broad distinct dusky-black inner-discal glandular patch, 
which is clothed with long pale foliate serrate-tipt scales, and long blackish andvo- 
conia with short broad bulbous base and hair-like tasselled tip—no short scales 
present; crossed by a discal linear-series of broad yellowish-white spots (those 
ordinarily proceeding inward to the costa being obsolescent or entirely absent). 
Hindwing crossed by a medial yellowish-white band. Underside nearly as dark 
coloured as the upperside. Forewing the palest, the costal and apical border broadly 
mottled with black strigze slightly edged with cinereous; the transverse discal white 
spots broader, diffused externally, with the usual divergent costal portion entire, the 
subapical black spot with white pupil, and distinct. Hindwing thickly mottled with 
cinereous-edged black strigze, which are more clouded externally; the transverse 
medial white band sharply defined on its inner edge, but diffused externally ; sub- 
marginal black lunular line diffused, and with a more or less indistinct subanal black 
spot with white pupil. 
Female. Upperside. Jorewing crossed by similar but slightly larger spots and 
with a broken set extending inward to the costa beyond the cell. Hindwing with 
the transverse band as in the male. Underside of the same dark colour as in the 
male. Forewing with the transverse white spots larger and more disconnected. 
Hindwing with the mottled outer border more thickly flecked with cinereous, and 
the submarginal line less apparent; the transverse white band broader and more 
diffused externally than in male. Body and legs dark brown; collar and side of 
palpi cinereous-white; antenne dark brown, slightly reddish at the tip beneath. 
Expanse, ¢ 33 to 33, % 3% to 42 inches. 
Hasrrat.—N.-W. Himalayas. 
DistripuTion AND Hasirs.—Of this species, Col. A. M. Lang remarks (Ent. Mo. 
Mag. 1868, 246), ‘I have always found Padma and Avatara in company, and they 
have appeared to me as sexes of the same species. They frequent quite different 
ground to Swaha and Saraswati, and appear at a different season, flying in May 
and June on the borders of oak and rhododendron forests at the summits of ranges 
