136 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



and crossed by a prominent medial oblique pale olivaceous-yellow macular band, 

 which extends from tlie costa to lower median veinlet opposite the posterior angle, 

 the lowest spot being narrowest and of an irregular prolonged lunate form ; a 

 minute pale yellow spot sometimes also present beneath the lower median vein close 

 to the discal fascia ; two small pale yellow costal spots before the apex. Hindwing 

 with a similar blackish-green transverse discal and sub marginal diffused lunulated 

 fascia, the former with two irregular-shaped pale olivescent-yellow subcostal spots, 

 the lower one generally externally excavated or posteriorly narrow and constricted, 

 sometimes a third very small lower spot is also present ; abdominal margin olives- 

 cent-grey. Underside much paler, olivescent-yellowish-green ; basal marks very 

 slender ; transverse discal and submarginal darker fascia3 as in upperside. Fore- 

 wing also with the oblique medial macular olivescent-white band and subapical 

 spots; sometimes also with two very small whitish spots beneath the lower median. 

 Hindwing also with two, or three, additional very small lower discal olivescent- 

 white spots. Body and palpi above dark olive-browQ, beneath and legs very pale 

 olivescent-yellow; antenna blackish above, reddish beneath. 



Female. Upperside somewhat of a darker tint than the male, the pale 

 olivescent-yellow spots more prominent. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, c? 3]^ to 4, ? 4 to 4j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Himalayas ; Chumba to Nepal. 



Distribution and Habits. — " Frequents oak forests at altitudes of 6000 to 8000 

 feet in the Western Himalayas ; taken at Panideo, Nuchar, and Kotghur during the 

 rainy season, July and August. It flies very swiftly over the tops of the trees with 

 a skimming flight like a swallow. Two or three may be seen chasing one another 

 in and out of the shade among the branches of the trees. They pitch abruptly, 

 often with expanded wings, basking in the sunlight iintil some passing insect, 

 another Adolias or a Neptis floating near, tempts the quarrelsome species to dash off, 

 buffet the passer-by, and after a rapid skim, pitch once more, suddenly, near its 

 former resting-place, and bask again. It soon gets battered, and as they fly and 

 pitch about the high tree-tops it is difiicult to capture" (Capt. A. M. Lang, Ent- 

 Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 181). " Local in the N.W. Himalaya. Very swift in flight. 

 Frequents woods " (Capt. Bayne Reed's Notes). " Flies about oaks from June to 

 September" (Rev. J. Hocking, P. Z. S. 1882, 239). Specimens from Simla, 

 Dharmsala, Almora, and Naini Tal were in the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson's collec- 

 tion (MS. List). Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 124) records it from 

 " Naini Tal, Ranibagh, etc., 2000 to 7000 feet elevation. Found chiefly during the 

 rains." We possess specimens taken by the late General G. Ramsay in Nepal. 

 Mr. de Niceville records having " taken it commonly in Simla at about 5000 feet. 

 It is very partial to over-ripe peaches, plums, etc. Major C. H. T. Marshall has 



