126 W. Dolierty — A List of Butterflies tahen in Kumaon. [No. 2, 



Suborder RHOPALOCERA HETEROPODA. 



Family LYC^NID^, Stephens. 



Subfamily Amblypodinj}. 



121. Panchala ganesa, Moore. Naini Tal, Dhankuri, 6 — 8,000 feet. 



122. Panchala rama, KoU. Kumaon generally, 1,000 — 8,000 feet. 

 Though it belongs to a tropical group, I found it flying in great numbers 

 on the mountain near Ramgarh (7,500 feet) in December, when the 

 ground was powdered with snow. The males and females of rama are 

 very much alike. Dodoncea, which I have from Mari, seems to be a 

 distinct species. 



123. Ieaota mj;cenas, Fabr. One male, Jhulaghat, eastern border 

 of Kumaon ; an extremely variable species wherever I have found it. 



I prefer to separate this group from the next by the structure of 

 the prehensores, the clasps of Deudorix being very small and immove- 

 ably fixed on each side of the intromittent organ, which is not retrac- 

 tile ; while in Amblypodia they are free and tolerably well deve- 

 loped. As for the egg, I had examined that of some twenty species 

 of the Amblypodia group, including se\^eral of the genera, and found 

 it always covered with acute spines. But in all the females of rama 

 examined by me, there were two easily- distinguished forms of egg 

 present in about equal numbers, the one with the spines acute as in 

 Amblypodia, the other with them truncate as in Deudorix. 



Subfamily Deudorigin^. 



124. YiRACHOLA ISOCRATES, Fabr. Charma valley. Eastern Kumaon, 

 3,000 feet. 



125. Deudorix epiarbas, Moore, (epijarbas). Kumaon generally, 

 2—6,000 feet. 



126. BaSpa melampus, Cram. Almora, Loharkhet, Kali valley, 2 — 

 6,000 feet. 



127. Hysudra selira, Moore. Almora, Pyura, 4 — 6,000 feet. 



128. BiDASPA NissA, KoU. Kumaon generally, 3 — 7,000 feet. My 

 specimens rarely show any trace of the red spot above, and are of a 

 richer metallic above and a deeper rufous below than Simla specimens. 

 The genus seems very close to Bapala. 



129. Rapala schistacea, Moore. Lower Ramganga and Sarju, 2 — 

 4,000 feet. Distinguished by the beautiful blue of the hindwings and 

 the basal part of the forewings, when seen in certain lights, especially 

 from behind. 



