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7. Edplcea (Crastia) coke, Cramer. 



Very common in the low valleys about Mussoorie and in Dehra 

 Dun in the autumn. In the latter valley the larva has been noticed 

 feeding on Ficus glomerata, Koxb., Natural Order Urticacece. Mr. 

 Moore (vide Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 82) appears to be under the impression 

 that E. core is not found in the Himalayas, but only to the south of the 

 hills, in the hills themselves being replaced by E. vermiculata, Butler. 

 This is certainly not the fact. Close to Mussoorie and in the Dun in 

 October, 1895, collectors brought in daily scores of typical E. core and 

 E. vermiculata and every intergrade between the extremes of both 

 forms. There is not the smallest doubt that these two species, which 

 are given as distinct by Mr. Moore, are really one and the same. It 

 appears probable that E. core is the prevailing form in the rains, but 

 at the end of the rains both E. core and E. vermiculata appear in 

 about equal numbers and every variety connecting the two, while later 

 on, when the rains have wholly ceased, E. vermiculata alone appears. 

 A precisely parallel instance is found in Melanitis ismene, Cramer, and 

 other satyrine butterflies. At the end of the wet-season from one 

 batch of eggs laid by M. ismene, in captivity, de Niceville has bred the 

 ocellated and non-ocellated forms, and all intermediates. 

 8. Edplcea (Trepsichrois) linn^i, Moore. 



Rare in Mussoorie, where it has been caught sparingly from May 

 to September. It does not appear to occur in the Dun. 

 Sub-Family Satyrin2Bj. 



9. Mtcalesis (Orsotricena) medds, Fabricius. 



The dry-season form of this species, M. runeka, Moore, has been re- 

 corded from the Dehra Dun in Butt. India, vol. i, p. 112, n. 93, but we 

 have not met with it in our area. The wet-season form, true M. medus, 

 has been recorded in Lep. Ind., vol. i, p. 169, by Moore, from TJmballa. 



10. Mycalesis (Calysisme) perseds, Fabricius. 



The dry- season form, true M. perseus, is not very common in the 

 Dun and the low valleys near Mussoorie in the spring and autumn up 

 to December. The wet-season form, M. blasius, Fabricius, is rare, 

 and we have only obtained it at Dehra Dun in August. 



11. Mtcalesis (Calysisme) mineds, Linnaeus. 



The dry-season form, M. otrea, Cramer, is very common in the Dun 

 in the spring and autumn, rare in Mussoorie in May. The wet-season 



