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Show 648 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Dec. 6, ? PlRDANA RUDOLPHEI. ? P. rudolphei, Elwes & de Nicev. J. A. S. B. 1886, pt. ii. p. 438, t. xx. 6 3 • A male from the Karen Hills and a much larger specimen, which I take to be the female, from Perak. The latter has the base of fore wing and great part of the hind wing shot with steely purple or green as in P. hyela ; but the underside, which agrees precisely with that of the male, is free from the striation which is seen in P. hyela and to some extent in the type of P. rudolphei. I am not at all sure whether P. rudolphei is a good species, the extent of yellow in the fringes and hind wing being variable in P. hyela, with which it otherwise agrees. If the underside is constant, what I have here called P. rudolphei would be a new species, but the material existing is not sufficient to decide the point. PlSOLA ZENNARA. P. zennara, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 786, t. xiii. 4. Of this species, which I recently supposed to be confined to Sikkim, Doherty has sent two males from the Naga Hills, and two females from the Karen Hills ; but the fore wing in these latter is much more rectangular than in the Sikkim female, and the vitreous band of a glassy white without yellow tinge as in that from Sikkim. CAPILA JAYADEVA. C.jayadeva, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 785, t. xiii. 3. A single male from the Naga Hills and a female recorded from Margharita by Doherty. ZEA MYTHECA. Hesp. mytheca, Hew. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xix. p. 81 (1877). Tea (vel Zea) mytheca, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 377, t. xxxv. 7 2 • A single specimen (which looks like a male, though the abdomen is damaged) from Perak agrees with the figure cited. PA RATA ALEXIS. ? Pap. alexis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 533. Hasora alexis, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 441. Parata chromus, Cram. Pap. Ex. iii. t. 284, E. Sent from Bernardmyo and the Karen Hills. I still fail to see how to separate P. alexis and P. chromus. BlBASIS SENA. Goniloba sena, Moore, Cat. E. I. C. p. 245 (1857). A single male from the Naga Hills. MATAPA ARIA. Ismene aria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 784. Matapa aria, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 378, t. xxxv. 8. A pair from the foot of the Karen Hills. |