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being conspicuously smaller than in A. Padma, more medially placed across the wing 

 than in Padma, and transversely shorter, and those between the medians pyriform. 

 Eindwing crossed by a narrower medial pale ochreous-white band. Underside 

 brighter coloured, darker, and of a more olive-brown tint than in A. Padma. Fore- 

 wing -with the costa, interior of cell, and apical border slightly mottled with darker 

 brown pale-bordered strigoe, those at the apex bordered with lilac ; transverse discal 

 spots medially-disposed as on upperside, and with an intermediate ill-defined white- 

 pupilled black spot between the radials. Hindwing densely mottled with dark 

 brown strigae more or less edged with lilac; transverse band narrow, as on 

 upperside. 



Female. Upperside with similar transverse pale ochreous-white markings, 

 medially-disposed as in male, but somewhat less prominently defined. Underside 

 also with similar markings, those on the forewing somewhat larger, but less promi- 

 nently defined ; the bands narrower than in Padma. 



Expanse, c? 2|, ? 3 inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Kumaon ; Sikkim. 



The above description is taken from male and female typical specimens obtained 

 by Mr. Doherty at Dankuri, N.-W. Kumaon, kindly lent for this purpose by Mr. L. de 

 Niceville. Mr. Doherty's original description (1. c. p. 118) is as follows: "A. Lolia. 

 N. sp. Smaller than Padma ; cell of male smooth, sex mark not very plain ; male distin- 

 guished by the divergent white spots from the median band to the costa ; the female 

 by the band of the hindwing below being narrow, well defined and ochreous. The 

 insect is darker than Padma, the apex of both wings glossed with lilac below, and 

 the base of the hindwing greenish. It may perhaps be only a seasonal form of 

 Padma." 



Distribution. — Mr. W. Doherty (1. c. 118) says : " I found Loha common on 

 Bireg mountain, N.-W. Kumaon, from 9000 to 12,000 feet, in August and September," 

 We possess a male and female identical with the typical specimen above de- 

 scribed, from the late General G. Ramsay's Nepal collection. Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 obtained it in Sikkim, remarking (1. c. 323), " I took it only on the Singalelah Range 

 which bound Sikkim on the West between Tonglo and Phallut, at elevations of from 

 10,000 to 12,000 feet, in July, but it was most abundant on the grassy ridge beyond 

 Sundukpho 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." In examples of these Sikkim specimens, under our examination, the 

 glandular patch is clothed with somewhat differently-shaped scales from those present 

 in the typical male above described, one form being longer and more oval with 

 scarcely definable serrate-tip, the other lengthened serrate-tipt form being somewhat 

 shorter, and with tapering base, the androconia being also absent. 



