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haunts, grassy liills at 7000 to 8000 feet elevation, from June to September." (Butt. 

 Ind. 197), and subsequently (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1886, 103) he records " the discovery, 

 after many years' hunting, of the larva of A. Swaha" having " found it on the wild 

 blue Iris during the first week in August, at about 8000 feet elevation, in the Upper 

 Parbutti Valley, in Kulu." In Kumaon, Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 118) 

 " found it on all the hills of the Pindari district, 7000 to 10,000 feet, also on the 

 outer ranges, Jagheswar, Takula, and the Dhoag, 5500 to 9000 feet, and in Chaudans 

 in Bast Kumaon, 5000 to 7000 feet. A common species." 



AULOCERA SAEASWATI (Plate 100, figs. 3, 3a, cj ? ). 



Satyrus Sarasioati, Kollar, in Hugel's Kaschmir, IV. 2, p. 445, pi. 14, figs. 3, 4 (1844), ? , Staudinger, 



Exot. Schmett. pi. 82 (1887). 

 Aulocera Saraswati, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1867, p. 121 ; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1868) ; 

 Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 200 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. LTpperside dark olivescent blackish-brown. Cilia broadly alter- 

 nated with white. Foreiving crossed by a medial-discal broad yellowish-white com- 

 pact macular band, composed of almost quadrate spots, with a black spot dividing 

 the two longitudinally disposed between the radials ; a more or less prominent 

 narrow discal black angular glandular patch, which is clothed with very long foliate 

 acutely serrate-tipt pale scales, some short broad serrate-tipt scales, and interspersed 

 with blackish androconia with broad bulbous base, hair-like end, and tasselled 

 tip. Hindwing crossed by a broad yellowish-white uninterrupted discal band, 

 which slightly decreases in width above anal angle. Underside pale olivescent- 

 ochreous ; crossed by a pale ochreous-white band, which is whitest on the forewing, 

 as on upperside, the inner edge of the band being defined by a dark brown line, the 

 outer edge being difi'used, the subapical black spot prominent and white-pupilled ; 

 the basal area and the broad outer border delicately mottled with transverse black 

 strigae, and the outer border traversed by a blackish diffused fascia, which latter, on 

 the hindwing, is more or less sinuous, and where the marginal strigae beyond are 

 more or less whitish-edged. 



Female. Upperside of both wings with the white macular band, as in the male, 

 but slightly broader, the subapical intervening black spot on the forewing generally 

 having a minute white pupil. Underside as in the male, the blackish submarginal 

 fascia being much less defined. Body above dark olivescent-brown ; abdomen 

 beneath pale olivescent-ochreous ; collar, side of palpi, and femora beneath ochreous- 

 white; tibiae and tarsi ochreous. 



Expanse, $ 2| to 2f , ? 2f to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — According to Col. A. M. Lang (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, 246), " A. 



r 2 



