8 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



Caterpillar. — " Apple-green, with, pale yellow lateral lines. Feeds on various 

 grasses." (A. G. Young.) 



Habitat. — N.W. and E. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — " This is one of the commonest butterflies of the "Western 

 Himalayas, extending eastwards as far as Sikkim. Mr. A. Graham Young states that 

 in Kulu it is very common, appearing in July and again in September and October, 

 the larva being apple-green with pale yellow lateral lines, and feeds on grasses." 

 (Butt. Ind. i. 179.) According to Col. A. M. Lang (P.Z.S. 1865, 499), it is " a 

 very common Himalayan species ; to be seen at all seasons flitting about the rocky 

 roadside in Lower Kunawar and the Simla Hills, and pitching on rocks and banks ; 

 more abundant on the outer I'anges, on bare grassy slopes." In his MS. Notes, 1865, 

 Col. Lang also says, " Schakra appears within ten miles of the plains at Kussowli, 

 fi'equenting all cliff and rocky ground. It continues for 200 miles, very scarce in 

 the last fifty of this distance, and I have taken one specimen here, at Pangi ; March, 

 to October." Major Hellard, in his MS. Notes, records it from " Simla, Masuri, and 

 Kashmir ; June and October." Major J. W. Yerbury (P.Z.S. 1886, 358) records 

 specimens from " Murree, August and September ; between Abbottabad and Kala 

 Pani, September. Very common in August and September. Found all along the 

 hills as far as Thundiani, and as low as Tret and Bugnoter ; probably not above 

 5000 feet elevation." Mr. L. de Niceville (Indian Agriculturist, January 1st, 1880), 

 says, " This insect is to be met with at all seasons and everywhere in the N.-W. 

 Himalayas, flitting along rocky roads and paths, and continually settling on stones, 

 etc. I have taken it in Kashmir and far up into Ladak." Mr. W. Doherty 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 117) records it as being found in " Kumaon generally, up to 

 9000 feet; seen as low as Dharchula, 3500 feet." 



LASIOMMATA MORULA (Plate 96, figs. 2, 2a, b, J ? ). 



Lasiommata Marula, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 496, (J (1867). 



Amecera Mcerula, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 126 (1868). Marshall anJ do Xict-ville, Butt, of 

 India, etc. i. p. ISO (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-brown ; cilia alternated with ochreous- 

 white. Forewi7ig not -possessing a glandular fascia; the subapical ocellus with its 

 ochreous ring larger than in L. Sdiakra, and only two narrow ochreous spots present 

 below it, these spots being also situated somewhat further from the outer margin. 

 HindwiTuj with two prominent median ocelli, and sometimes one or two upper 

 incipient spots. Underside similar to L. Schalcra. Forewing with the two cell bars 

 closer together, these bars and the discocellular, and also the wavy bar beyond the 

 cell, are brown, the latter being more outwardly-oblique ; the slender brown outer 



