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26. Lasiommata schakra, Kollar. 



Very common in Mussoorie and in the Upper Ganges Valley from 

 3,000 to about 6,000 feet elevation from March to October. 



27. Lasiommata morula, Felder. 



£. laurion, de Niceville, Journ., Bomb. Nat, Hist. Soc, vol. x, p. 15, n. 3, pi. R, 



figs. 5, male ; 6, female (1895). 



Found rarely in the interior in the higher valleys and on the Gonas 

 Pass. Dr. K. Jordan has very kindly, since my description of L\ lawion 

 appeared, examined the type specimens of L. mcerula in the Felderian 

 collection now in Dr, Jordan's custody. He writes to me under date 

 26th June, 1896, that there are ten male specimens of L. mcerula, 

 some of which are labelled Pangi, but which have the label schakra 

 Kollar, beneath them. They " are without male-mark ; the forewing 

 is strongly hairy ; they agree with Felder's description of L. mcerula 

 (and also with Kollar's figure of Satyrus schakra on the whole). 

 These specimens have apparently first been identified by Felder as 

 L. schakra, afterwards he found out that they did not quite agree with 

 L. schakra (figure), being different in the extent of ochreous on the 

 underside of the forewing for example, and gave the name mcerula to 

 them," From this it is evident that L. laurion, de Niceville, is the 

 same speeies as L. mcerula, and the former name must be sunk as a 

 synonym. The confusion caused in the identification of this species 

 :, would not have arisen had Felder put type tickets on the specimens 

 f he described, or even put the correct labels beneath them. 



28. Hipparchia (Nytha) parysatis, Kollar. 

 Very rare in Mussoorie, where a single specimen has been obtained 

 « in July ; a few others have been brought in from the Upper Ganges 

 Valley in the same months ; 



29. Aulocera brahminus, Blanchard. 



Found at high elevations in the interior near the snows in the Nila 

 and other valleys in July and August. 



30. Aulocera padma, Kollar. 

 Found early in the season, in April, at Mussoorie, and a second 

 brood occurs in September and October. Very numerous in May at 

 ( ^agTiba, 9,000 feet elevation. In the rains it is replaced by the two 

 species which follow, ,,, 



