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Show 1892.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 645 with Distant's good illustration and with a single pair from Pulo Laut, Borneo, which I think are the true S. amba. There is, however, a nearly allied but, as I think, distinct species, which also occurs in Pulo Laut, and may be Hypolyccena amba, Kirby, of which neither Hewitson's nor Distant's figures are clear in the distinctive points. In this the male has the costa of hind wing broadly black, the purple on fore wings more diffused, the markings of the underside more broken, and the colour of the base much paler ; the tails and hind wings with broad white fringes. If this proves constant, as it is in four specimens I have, the Pegu and Perak forms may be called S. amboides. SlNTHUSA CHANDRANA. Hypolyccena chandrana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 249, t. xi. figs. 2, 2 a 3 . S. chandrana, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 486. Two pairs from the Karen Hills and Momeit. SlNTHUSA VIRGO. Hypolyccena virgo, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 446. S. virgo, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 488, front, fig. 134 o*. One female from the Naga Hills and another from Bernardmyo agree perfectly with the type. It is very strange that in these places, as in Sikkim, the male of this species seems so difficult to procure, whilst in many of the allied species the females are taken very rarely. Fam. HESPERIIDJE. UNKANA BATARA. U. batara, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 370, t. xxxiv. 11. Two males from Perak. UNKANA ELIA. Hesp. elia, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 489. Unkana elia, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 370, t. xxxiv. 25. A single male from Perak agrees with the type in coll. Hewitson from Borneo and with Distant's plate. UNKANA ATTINA. Hesp. attina, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 489. Unkana attina, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 371, t. xxxiv. I am indebted to Major Adamson for a female of this species from Moulmein, this being, I think, its first certainly recorded occurrence in British India. BADAMIA EXCLAMATIONIS. Pap. exclamationis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 530. Doherty took examples of this species at Margharita and in the Karen Hills. |