SATYRIJSr^. 6 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — "This species is generally considered a rare insect, but in 1882 

 it was found in great profusion by Mr. W. Doherty in the Bhagi and Narkunda 

 forests, and again at Theog, in the neighbourhood of Simla, in August, flying freely 

 during heavy rain, and alighting on the leaves of bushes and trees. It was con- 

 spicuous when settled, and appears to have nothing protective in its coloration." 

 Col. A. M. Lang notes, " Observed only late in the autumn, in a forest glade in the 

 Himalayas, near a stream with rich vegetation about its banks." His collection 

 contained five specimens from the neighbourhood of Simla, taken at 9000 feet eleva- 

 tion, and two from Lower Kunawar, at 7000 feet elevation. It is evidently a very 

 local insect." (Butt. India, 176.) Major Hellard, in his MS. Notes, records 

 specimens from Ketruar, in the Valley of the Rupin River ; taken in September. 

 Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 117) records it from " Dhankuri, Khati, Dwali, 

 and Chaudans, at from 7000 to 11,000 feet in Kumaon." " In Sikkim, this species 

 seems rare, as Mr. Moller had never seen it until I got three specimens on Singalelah 

 at 9000 to 11,000 feet, in July. It occurs higher up than its congener (Satricus), 

 but seems to have much the same flight and habits. My Shikaris brought a few 

 from the interior in 1883 and 1884. The female is rare." (Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1888, 322.) 



Indo-Chinese Species op Rhaphiceea, and allied Genus. — B. dumicola (Satyrus 

 dumicola, Oberthtir, Etudes Ent. 1876, p. 29, pi. 4, fig. 7. Habitat, Moupin, E. 

 Tibet. — Genus nov. Tatinga. — Allied to Ehaphicera. Foreiving with the costa less 

 arched, apex rounded, exterior margin very slightly concave in the middle ; discocel- 

 lulars outwardly recurved, upper radial close to subcostal, lower radial near the 

 middle ; upper median straight ; discal area clothed with long pale tridentate-tipt 

 scales, a few shorter battledore-scales with dentate tips, and with many interspersing 

 longer blacJc androconia, which have a lengthened broad-bulbous base and elongated 

 hair-like penicillated-tip. These androconia are about twice the length of those in 

 Rhaphicera. Eindwing bluntly-ovate ; exterior margin very oblique and slightly 

 scalloped ; discocellular undulated and angled in the middle, radial from the angle. 

 Type. — Tatinga tibetanus (Satyrus tibetanus, Oberthtir, Etudes Entom. 1876, p. 28, 

 pi. 2, fig. 4). Habitat.— MouTpm, E. Tibet. 



Genus LASIOMMATA. 



Satyrus, Latreille, Consid. Gen. p. 440 (1810). 



Lasiommafo, Westwood, in Westwood and Humphrey's British Butt. p. 65 (1840). Doubleday, List. 



Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 1, p. 134 (1844). Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's D. Lap, 



p. 385 (1851). Scudder, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Boston (1875), p. 202. 

 ^mecem (paW), Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. (1867), p. 162; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 123 (1868). 



Kirby, Manual Eur. Butt. p. 50 (1862). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 178 



(1883). 



