AULOCERA. 



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white band crossing both wings broader, not excurved on the hind 

 wing, tinged with creamy yellow ; preapical black spot on fore 

 wing less distinct, the white spot on its 

 inner margin not continued to the costa. 

 Underside: the irrorations of transverse 

 greyish-white striae less numerous on 

 the fore wing ; the lower basal area of 

 the hind wing tinged with green ; the 

 lunular black postdiscal band straighter, 

 somewhat diffuse ; beyond it a broad 

 band of greyish- white striae ; the mar- 

 ginal black lines obscure on both wings. 

 Exp. S 2 72-76 mm. (2-9-3"). 

 Hob. The Himalayas from Kashmir to 

 East Kumaun. 



Larva. There seems to be some doubt 

 as to the true larva of this, the com- 

 monest of the Auloeeras. Mr. Grahame 

 Young (fide Moore) says, " probably black, but so thickly covered 

 with bright yellow hairs that it is impossible to see what its 

 ground-colour really is." Mr. Mackinnon, on the contrary 

 (Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1897-98, p. 218), says the larva is 

 brown, with "a rough hairless skin." The food-plant is said 

 by Mr. Grahame Young to be the wild blue iris ; by Mr. Mac- 

 kinnon, " different grasses." 



Fig. 30. 

 Aulocera swaha, <$ . 



150. Aulocera padma, Kollar (Satyrus), HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, 1844, 

 p. 445, pi. 15, figs. 1 & 2 $ ; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 196 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, 

 p. 32, pi. 100, figs. 1,1a, ($2. 



Aulocera loka, Doherty, J. A. S. B. 1886, 

 p. 118 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii. 1893-96, 

 p. 30, pi. 99, figs. 4, 4«, c?$- 



Aulocera chumbica, Moore, Lep. Ind. 

 ii, 1893-96, p. 30, pi. 99, figs. 3, 

 3a, <$%. 



3 2 • Differs from A. brahminus as 

 follows :— Larger. Upperside black 

 or dark brown without any bronzy 

 sheen, the discal band crossing both 

 wings very much broader, not tinged 

 with cream-colour as in A. swaha ; 

 the free spots in the band on fore 

 wing more or less oval and pointed 

 outwardly, the black preapical spot 

 not prominent, the w T hite spot on the inner margin of the pre- 

 apical spot continued to the costa only in the 2 • Underside 

 silky brown, the discal band sharply defined on its inner border, 

 diffuse outwardly ; fore wing with a dark brown, broad, sub- 

 terminal baud; the basal area of the hind wing very dark, the 



Fig. 31. — Aulocera padma, <$. 



