246 fApril, 
well, that there is no room to doubt the identity of our species. 
The only discrepancy is in the length, which Tieber gives as 2| lines, 
while our insect is only 2 lines : but a larger series of examples would 
probably show that this is the range of the length of the species. 
(To he continued.) 
DESCEIPTION OP AULOCERA WERANO, A NEW SPECIES OF BUTTER- 
FLY BELONGING TO THE FAMILY SATYRID^. 
BY CAPTAIN A. M. LAN&. 
The genus Aulocera was formed by Mr. Eutler (Ent. Mo. Mag., 
Nov., 1867, p. 121) to contain the Indian group of Satyri, consisting 
of Padma (Kollar) and allies. 
Of this group, 5 species have been described, viz. : — Sivaha, 
Saraswati, Fadma, Avatara, and Scylla. 
Of these, the four first named occur in the North -Western 
Himalaya, while the last is recorded only from near Sylhet, far from 
the head quarters of the genus. 
In the Simla and Kunawur districts of N'.W. Himalaya (with 
which I am familiar) Sioaha abounds during the rainy season, i.e., from 
July to October, from the outer spurs overlooking the Indian plains 
for 200 miles into the interior of the mountain ranges towards the 
treeless regions of Spiti and Tibet. 
Saraswati is not quite so widely spread, appears later, and dis- 
appears earlier. In August these two species swarm, in localities 
affected by them, amongst the luxurious grass pastures on the less 
wooded slopes of the hills. 
Padma and Avatara I have always found in company, and they 
have appeared to me as ? and ^ respectively of the same species. 
They frequent quite different ground to the two former species, and 
appear at a different season ; flying in May and June on the borders of 
oak and rhododendron forests at the summits of ranges of from 8,000' 
to 10,000' altitude. A second brood appears in July in the same 
localities. They fly with much bolder Nymphalidan flight than their 
tamer congeners Swaha and Saraswati, and they do not extend out of the 
Simla district into Kunawur. 
Scylla (described by Mr. Butler, loc. cit.) has never been seen 
by me. 
A sixth (undescribed) species of the genus has been taken by me, 
and I diagnose it as follows : — 
