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Show 364 MR. A. G. B U T L E R O N [June 29, NEMEOBIIN^E. 30. TAXILA EUGENES. Dodona eugenes, Bates, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 371 (1867). 2, Murree, 10th September, 1885; Thundiani, low down near Kala Pani, 24th September. " Dodona dipcea : uncommon, a few at Murree in August, and two or three below Thundiani in September."-/. TV. Y. Although Hewitson, in his collection, associated three examples of T. eugenes with his type of T. dipcea, the two species are so well marked that there ought to be no difficulty in distinguishing them. Though rare, T. eugenes iscommon compared with T. dipcea : it differs most prominently in the pattern of the under surface of the secondaries ; these wings in T. dipcea are of a dingy grey-brown colour, and the bands across it are very narrow and of a creamy yellowish tint; the short band between the cell and the apex is bounded internally by three dark brown angular spots, and the anal lobe has no tail; in fact, strictly speaking, it is a Dodona, whereas T. eugenes is a Taxila l. 31. TAXILA DURGA. Melitaa durga, Kollar in Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 441, pi. 13. figs. 3, 4 (1848). d 2 •>Murree, 18th, 22nd, and23rd August; Dewal, 26th August; Bugnoter, 20th September, 1885. " Common at Murree in August and September ; found along the hills to Thundiani; also at Dewal."-/. TV. Y. LYCENID^E. 32. PANCHALA? DODONJEA. Amblypodia dodonaa, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co. Mus. p. 43. n. 65, pi. la. fig. 8 (1857). d , Thundiani, 23rd September, 1885. This species in M r. Kirby's Catalogue is indicated as female of the following; in our series are both sexes of each species, which are totally different. Major Yerbury's note refers to both. 33. PANCHALA? RAMA. Thecla rama, Kollar in Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 412, pi. 4. figs. 1, 2 (1848). 2, Dewal near Murree, 26th August, 1885. 1 Practically, however, the twogenera are synonymous, as, in spite of Scudder's oversight of the following important facts, I shall now show:-In Doubleday's List the following species stand under the then undescribed genus Taxila- T. fatua, egeon, erato, cesennia, fylla, drupadi, orphna, esther, echerius, tantalus, neophron. This genus was adopted and described by Westwood in the ' Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' the three italicized species being figured in the same order as above; and T. orphna (under which name two species are confounded on the plate) is not figured as a Taxila at all, though placed with that genus in the letterpress ; it, moreover, stands last in M r. Westwood's notes on the genus; yet Mr. Kirby admits this species alone into the genus Taxila, whilst Scudder admits only T. drupadi, an insect in no way brought prominently forward as typical. |
