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up and down rocky-bedded streams in Himalayan glens, 3000 to 5000 feet. It 

 pitches on rocks in mid-streams, and flashes off again if approached. It is not 

 common, and is very difficult to capture ; yet one very hot day in June I saw seven 

 individuals sitting with closed wings motionless on a foul spot (by the damp sandy 

 margin of a stream), so close together that I might have put my hat on all of them. 

 Except on that occasion, I have never seen more than one at a time " (Lang, 

 P. Z. S. 1865, 498). Mr. Hocking says, "it is the wildest butterfly that I know. 

 It takes very long flights at a time and returns to the same point. It is very shy " 

 (P. Z. S. 1882, 238). Mr. L. de Nic^ville remarks, " I took one specimen in 

 October, 1878, at Kotgurh, imbibing moisture on a damp spot near the Komarsen 

 stream. Of all the butterflies I am acquainted with this insect is the swiftest on 

 the wing. I have taken a few small and apparently hybernated specimens on hill 

 tops near Simla in April, and have seen the ordinary sized ones in various places 

 near Simla in the autumn. My Darjeeling specimens are decidedly darker than 

 those taken at this end of the Himalayas. Expanse from 2'2 inches to 2"9 inches " 

 (Indian Agriculturist, January, 1880). 



Of our illustrations of E. Hamasta on Plate 185, fig. 1 is from a Sikkim male 

 identical with the type, and fig. la is from the type specimen of the female. 



EULEPIS AGRARIUS (Plate 185, figs. 2, 2a, cj ? ). 



Charaxes Agrarius, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1886, p. 425, pi. 40, fig. 3, (?. 

 Charaxes Athamas (part), de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 275 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Both wings with the yellow discal band uniformly 

 narrower, the outer edge of the band more irregular, undulated, the portions 

 between the medians being each somewhat incurved. Forewing with a large 

 quadrate lower submarginal spot and two small superposed apical spots. Hindwinrj 

 with yellowish-white rounded submarginal spots, the upper minute, the lower three 

 large and dento-lunate ; marginal ochreous lunules not present in the male, very 

 indistinct in female, the lower bluish-grey streaks only present in male. Underside 

 similar to E. Hamasta, but paler. 



Expanse, c? 2j^o to '^h^ ? "^h inches. 



Habitat. — Hills of Central India ; Eastern (xhats ; ? Chin Hills. 



Distribution. — The type specimens were taken by Colonel Swinhoe at Mhow in 

 October, at Assighur in October, and at Poona in September. A female from 

 Ganjam, taken by Mr. Minchin, is in Mr. Druce's collection. Similar specimens 

 (presumably of this species) are in the British Museum collection, and others in 

 my own possession, taken by Lieutenant E. Y. "Watson during the Chin-Lushai 

 Expedition, are labelled " Tilin Yaw, February and March, Chin Hills, May," except 

 that the yellow band is narrower, and the marginal white spots on hindwing are 

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