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65. Satyrus padma. 
Satyrus padma, Koll., Hugel’s Kash., p. 445, t. xv., 1, 
2 (1848), 2. 
S. avatara, Moore, Cat. E.1.C., p. 229 (1857), 3. 
S. padma, Elwes, Ent. Mo. Mag., 1886. 
Aulocera padma, Butt. Ind., p. 196. 
When writing of this species recently in the Ent. Mo. 
Mag. I stated that, though I had specimens from an old 
Sikkim collection, I was not certain of its occurrence in 
the Eastern Himalaya. On the 24th June, 1886, I was 
riding round the north side of Birch Hill on a drizzling 
afternoon, and saw a male of this species, which had 
apparently only just emerged from the pupa, settled on 
a tree by the roadside at about 7000 ft. in a dense sub- 
tropical virgin forest. This is certainly padma, and, 
like my other supposed Sikkim specimens, is a trifle 
larger than those from the N.W. Himalaya. It is 
evidently quite rare in the environs of Darjeeling. 
66. Satyrus loha. (Pl. IX., fig. 6). 
Aulocera loha, Doherty, J. A. 8. B., 1886, p. 118. 
Satyrus padma, Elwes, P. Z.8., 1882, p. 406. 
S. brahminus (in part), Elwes, Ent. Mo. Mag., 1886. 
The confusion which I made between this species and 
S. brahminus, in my paper on the Himalayan species of 
this section of Satyrus, is now, I think, cleared up by 
Mr. Doherty’s description, and, though I have only taken 
male specimens of this species in Sikkim myself, and 
the smaller ones which I had received from native 
collectors from Chumbi are very near to brahminus, yet 
I think Iam now able to recognise with certainty this 
species as distinct from both padma and brahminus. 
I took it only on the Singalelah Range which bounds 
Sikkim on the west between Tonglo and Phallut, at 
elevations of from 10,000 to 12,500 ft., in July, but it 
was most abundant on the grassy ridge beyond Sun- 
dukpho above the pine-forest, where it flies strongly 
above the trees, resting on their trunks, and settling on 
flower-heads in the open parts and on the edge of the 
forest. The specimens of both sexes from Chumbi are 
somewhat smaller, and have a narrower band on both 
