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up and down rocky-bedded streams in Himalayan glens, 3000 to 5000 feet. It 
pitches on rocks in mid-streams, and flashes off again if approached. It is not 
common, and is very difficult to capture; yet one very hot day in June I saw seven 
individuals sitting with closed wings motionless on a foul spot (by the damp sandy 
_Imargin of a stream), so close together that I might have put my hat on all of them. 
Except on that occasion, I have never seen more than one at a time” (Lang, 
P. Z. 8S. 1865, 498). Mr. Hocking says, “it is the wildest butterfly that I know. 
It takes very long flights at a time and returns to the same point. It is very shy” 
(P. Z. S. 1882, 238). Mr. L. de Nicéville remarks, “I took one specimen in 
October, 1878, at Kotgurh, imbibing moisture on a damp spot near the Komarsen 
stream. Of all the butterflies I am acquainted with this insect is the swiftest on 
the wing. J have taken a few small and apparently hybernated specimens on hill 
tops near Simla in April, and have seen the ordinary sized ones in various places 
near Simla in the autumn. My Darjeeling specimens are decidedly darker than 
those taken at this end of the Himalayas. Expanse from 2°2 inches to 2°9 inches”’ 
(Indian Agriculturist, January, 1880). 
Of our illustrations of HL. Hamasta on Plate 185, fig. 1 is from a Sikkim male 
identical with the type, and fig. la is from the type specimen of the female. 
EULEPIS AGRARIUS (Plate 185, figs. 2, 2a, f 2). 
Charazes Agrarius, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1886, p. 425, pl. 40, fig. 3, ¢. 
Charaxes Athamas (part), de Nicéville, Butt. of India, etc., ii. p. 275 (1886). 
Twaco.—Male and female. Both wings with the yellow discal band uniformly 
narrower, the outer edge of the band more irregular, undulated, the portions 
between the medians being each somewhat incurved. Forewing with a large 
quadrate lower submarginal spot and two small superposed apical spots. Hindwing 
with yellowish-white rounded submarginal spots, the upper minute, the lower three 
large and dento-lunate; marginal ochreous lunules not present in the male, very 
indistinct in female, the lower bluish-grey streaks only present in male. — Underside 
similar to 1. Hamasta, but paler. 
Expanse, ¢ 2,5, to 2,5, ? 2,8 inches. 
Habitat.—Hills of Central India ; Eastern Ghats ; ? Chin Hills. 
DistrrsuTIoN.—T he type specimens were taken by Colonel Swinhoe at Mhow in 
October, at Assighur in October, and at Poona in September. A female from 
Ganjam, taken by Mr. Minchin, is in Mr. Druce’s collection. Similar specimens 
(presumably of this species) are in the British Museum collection, and others in 
my own possession, taken by Lieutenant E. Y. Watson during the Chin-Lushai 
Expedition, are labelled “ Tilin Yaw, February and March, Chin Hills, May,” except 
that the yellow band is narrower, and the marginal white spots on hindwing are 
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