32 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Of the illustrations of tliis species on our Plate 92, fig. 4 represents the male, from 

 Dhankuri, in Kumaon, and fig. 4a, the female, from a Nepal example. 



ATILOCEEA PADMA (Plate 100, fig. 1, la, ^ ? ). 



Satyrus Padma, Kollar, in Hiigel's Kasclimir, iv. 2, p. 445, pi. 15, figs. 1, 2 (1844), ? . 



Aulocera Padma, Butler, Eat. Mo. Mag. 1867, p. 122 ; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1868). MarshaU 



and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 196 (1883). Dolierty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bang. 1886, 



p. 118. 

 Sahjrus Avatara, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 229 (1857), $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark olivescent blackish-brown. Cilia alternated 

 with white. Foreiving with, a broad distinct dusky-black inner-discal glandular patch, 

 which is clothed with long pale foliate serrate-tipt scales, and long blackish andro^ 

 conia with short broad bulbous base and hair-like tasselled tip — no short scales 

 present; crossed by a discal linear-series of broad yellowish-white spots (those 

 ordinarily proceeding inward to the costa being obsolescent or entirely absent). 

 Hindwing crossed by a medial yellowish-white band. Underside nearly as dark 

 coloured as the upperside. Forewing the palest, the costal and apical border broadly 

 mottled with black strig^ slightly edged with cinereous ; the transverse discal white 

 spots broader, diffused externally, with the usual divergent costal portion entire, the 

 subapical black spot with white pupil, and distinct. Hind-wing thickly mottled with 

 cinereous-edged black strigES, which are more clouded externally; the transverse 

 medial white band sharply defined on its inner edge, but diffused externally ; sub- 

 marginal black lunular line diffused, and with a more or less indistinct subanal black 

 spot with white pupil. 



Female. Upperside. Foreidng crossed by similar but slightly larger spots and 

 with a broken set extending inward to the costa beyond the cell. Hindwing with 

 the transverse band as in the male. Underside of the same dark colour as in the 

 male. Forewing with the transverse white spots larger and more disconnected. 

 Hindwing with the mottled outer border more thickly flecked with cinereous, and 

 the submarginal line less apparent ; the transverse white band broader and more 

 diffused externally than in male. Body and legs dark brown ; collar and side of 

 palpi cinereous-white ; antennae dark brown, slightly reddish at the tip beneath. 



Expanse, ^ 2>\ to 3|, ? 3f to 4f inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas, 



Distribution and Habits. — Of this species, Ool. A. M. Lang remarks (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. 1868, 246), " I have always found Padma and Avatara in company, and they 

 have appeared to me as sexes of the same species. They frequent quite different 

 ground to Sivaha and Sarasivati, and appear at a different season, flying in May 

 and June on the borders of oak and rhododendron forests at the summits of ranges 



