126 NYMPHALIDJB. 



B. Termen of fore wing straight. 



a. Expanse 80-87 mm. White transverse 



band across wings very broad, of even 

 width, reaching dorsal margin of hind 

 wing . . A. padma, p. 127. 



b. Expanse 72-76 mm. White transverse 



band across wings comparatively narrow, 

 of uneven width, not reaching dorsal 

 margin of hind wing A. swaha, p. 126. 



148. Aulocera brahmiims, Blanchard (Satyrus), Jacquemont, Voy. 



dans Vlnde, iv, 1844, Ins. p. 22, pi. 2, fig. 4 <5 {nee figs. 5 & 6) ; 



M. # de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 198, pi. 16, fig. 49 S ; Moore, 



Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 27, pi. 99, figs. 1, 1 a, tf $ . 

 Aulocera brahminoides, Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 29, pi. 29, 



figs. 2, 2 «, $. 

 Aulocera scylla, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. iv, 1867, p. 122. 



6 2 • Upper side black with, in certain lights, a bronzy sheen ; 

 a postdiscal oblique band of white spots in the interspaces 

 crossing both wings, slightly excurved on hind wing, interrupted 

 preapically on the fore wing by a large round black spot, this spot 

 with a white spot on its inner, upper, and outer margins ; one or 

 two short white streaks continue the inner white spot to the 

 costa, prominently so in the $ ; on the fore wing the upper three 

 or four spots of the band are well separated and are outwardly 

 conical ; on the hind wing the spots form a continuous band not 

 quite reaching the dorsum ; cilia alternately black and white. 

 Underside fuscous bronzy brown ; costa and apex broadly, some- 

 times upper half of termen, also of fore wing and the whole of 

 the hind wing, irrorated with minute specks and striae of white ; 

 the lower basal half of hind wing darker ; the white transverse 

 band of spots and black preapical spot as on the upperside ; one 

 or two minute white spots beyond the white band and a post- 

 discal lunular, somewhat irregularly curved black band on the 

 hind wing ; the margins of both wings defined by a black line. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. 



Exp. 6 2 64-67 mm. (2-53-2-65"). 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas ; Kulu, Kashmir ; Sikhim ; Sylhet. 



Var. brahminoides, Moore, is the deeper and richer coloured 

 Eastern form, found in Native Sikhim and the Chumbi Valley. 

 It is glossed with purple at the apex of the fore wing and apices 

 of the veins of the hind wing on the underside. Var. scylla, 

 Butler, differs from brahmina only in having the transverse band 

 on the wings much narrower and in some specimens obsolescent 

 towards the dorsal margin of the hind wing. 



149. Aulocera swaha, Kollar (Satyrus), HiigePs Kaschmir, iv, 1844, 

 2, p. 444, pi. 14, figs. 1 & 2 ; M. # de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 197 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 33, pi. 100, figs. 2, 

 2a, tf$. 



6* 5 . Differs from A. brahmina as follows : — Upperside : discal 



