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Major J. W. Yerbury (P. Z. S. 1886, 357) : " Common between Bugnoter and 

 Abbottabad, 4000-5000 feet, September ; between Abbottabad and Kali Pani iu 

 September ; also on the lower slopes of Tliundiani ; seen near Tret, in October." 

 Common also on the hills round Abbottabad in August, and common at Kairabad 

 in May and June. Seen also at Attock." (Ann. N. H. 1888, 134.) Major Howland 

 Eoberts (P. Z. S. 1880, 405) obtained it in the neighbourhood of Candahar in 1880 ; 

 it " frequents nullahs and shady places, and may be caught by dozens at a time. 

 Abundant but local at the end of May, and in June in shady, moist places among 

 the low, rocky, barren hills." Colonel C. Swinhoe (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 338) 

 records its capture at Mach, Bolan Pass, Beluchistan, in July and August, 1879 ; 

 and at Chaman and Balgoi in May, 1880. The type specimen described by Kollar 

 is recorded from S. Persia. 



Genus AULOCERA. 



Ornas * Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 1 (1816). Oken, Lehrb. 1. p. 740 (1815). 



Aulocera, Butler, Entom. Monthly Mag. 1867, p. 121, fig. 1 ; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1868). 



Scudder, Arner. Acad. A. and Sc. Boston, 1875, p. 124. Marshall and de Nicuville, Butt, of India, 



etc. i. p. 195 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing broad, triangular, base hairy ; costal vein swollen at 

 the base; costa slightly arched, exterior margin oblique and slightly convex; witli 

 an indistinctly-defined dusky-black inner discal glandular jMtch, which is clothed with 

 moderately long broadly-oval dentate-tipt pale scales, very long narrow fohate acutely- 

 dentate tipt scales, interspersed with long blackish andror.onia f with lengthened 

 bulbous base and short hair-like end and tasselled tip; cell long, more than half 

 length of wing ; discocellulars recurved, upper angled close to subcostal, upper radial 

 from the angle, lower radial from above the middle. Eindwing broad, base hairy ; 

 exterior margin convex, slightly scalloped, anal angle rounded ; cell half the length, 

 rather broad; discocellulars recurved. Paljn clothed with fine long hairs in front to 

 the apex. Antenna; rather slender, with a lengthened slender club. 



Caterpillar. — " A. Swaha. Colour probably black, but so very thickly clothed 

 with short bright yellow hairs, that it is almost impossible to see what its ground 

 colour is ; head and legs black. Found upon the wild blue Iris." 



* Preoccupied in 1804 for a genus of Mammals. 



f In A. Stcaka, Loha, and Chunihica the androconia arc absent, though the patch is present. In the 

 European species, Proserpina, the androconia arc very slender, with an attenuated lengthened truncate 

 base. 



