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remarking that " it appears, however, to be very rare, as I have seen but three speci- 

 mens ; these were all taken by me at an altitude of 12,000 feet, about 1000 feet below 

 the bleak and bare summit of the Werang Pass, amidst the rocky, grassy ground 

 just clear of the forests of pine and cedars. Dr. Jerdon obtained a single specimen 

 at Goolmurg, 9000 feet above the Valley of Cashmere." The authors of " Butterflies 

 of India, &c." (p. 199) state that " A. Brahminus is found, so far as we have any 

 certain knowledge, only in the N.-W. Himalayas at from 7000 to 13,000 feet eleva- 

 tion. Mr. Graham Young took numerous specimens in 1880, in June, on the Ser-ka- 

 joth in North Mandi, two miles south of the Kalu frontier, and forty miles south of 

 the snowy range at barely 8000 feet elevation ; these were typical Brahnimis. Mr. 

 de Niceville found it very plentifully on the banks of the Chandra Bhaga river, in 

 July, near Koksir on the borders of Lahul at 7000 feet elevation, and again at Kailing 

 in Lahul at about 9000 feet in the same month ; all these specimens being of the 

 Weranga form with the ochreous predominating on the underside, and one, a female, 

 from Kailang, has the nervures powdered with white scales and the whitish black- 

 encircled spots of Scijlla. In Lahul, specimens were taken by the Rev. A. Heyde, at 

 Patseo, 11,000 feet, in July, which differ ft'om the usual form in the great predomi- 

 nance of the grey irrorations. In Pangi, on the Sach Pass, Mr. R. Ellis took at an 

 elevation of 13,000 feet, in August and September, some examples in which the pre- 

 vailing ochreous is beautifully contrasted with the grey markings, and dark brown 

 striae ; the veins in these are powdered with white, as in Scylla; and finally a large 

 series were taken by Mrs. Bazett at Goolmurg, in Kashmir, in July at from 9000 to 

 10,000 feet elevation, showing every gradationbetween typical Pra /iwrnnts and typical 

 Weranga." Mr. de Nicdville (Indian Agriculturist, January 1st, 1880) states that 

 •' it always settles on the ground with its wings closed, and then shuts the upper 

 wings into the lower ones, so that only the lower wings and the extreme tips of the 

 upper are visible." Major H. B. Hellard obtained it at " Pangi, in Busahir, in July 

 and August, and in Cashmere in August and September" (MS. notes). Mr. J. H. 

 Leech obtained specimens in the Deosi plains in August, 1887. 



AULOCERA SCYILA. 



Auloccra Scylla, Butler, Ent, Monthly Mag. 1867, p. 122, S. 

 Doherty, Jourii. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 118. 



Male. " Upperside blackish-fuscous, with a whitish discal fascia, macular on 

 the forewing, slender and obsolete near the anal angle on the hindwing, bifurcate at 

 the apex of forewing, and including an oval black spot. Ciha whitish, variegated 

 with black. Underside paler, covered with blackish striiB ; the subapical spot of fore- 

 wing ocellated ; hindwing very slightly yellowish, an outer discal series of whitish 

 spots tinged outwardly with black, the discal fascia distinct at the anal angle. Most 



