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Show 1891.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 279 EUTHALIA ANYTE. Adolias anyte, Hew. Ex. Butt. iii. Adol. t. ii. 5 (1862). E. anyte, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 198. Occurs in the Naga Hills, whence I have what I take to be the undescribed female of this species. I had it as well from Bhutan and Sikkim, but had confused it with E. nara, to which it bears a close resemblance. It may, however, be distinguished by the colour of the underside, which is of a paler green, by the position and shape of the band of spots on hind wing below, which corresponds much better with that of the male E. anyte than with E. nara, and by the smaller size and rather different shape of the markings at base of hind wings below. In the female from Naga Hills the band below is much shorter than in the Bhutan and Sikkim females, and the corresponding spots above are absent. In the male these white spots take the form of a yellowish patch, varying in size but larger than in the female. The fact that this female has come with the male anyte from no less than three localities seems to me to confirm my opinion \ ElJTHALIA FRANCLE. Adolias franc ice, Gray, Lep. Nepal, p. 12, t. xiv. E.francice, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 202. Occurs in the Naga and Karen Hills and at Bemardmyo. The specimens vary here as elsewhere in the breadth of the white bands and slightly in the tint of the upperside, but after comparing a large series I do not think any local races can be recognized. EUTHALIA SATROPACES. Adolias satropaces, Hew. Ent. M o . Mag. xiii. p. 150 (1876). E. satropaces, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 206. Occurs in the Karen Hills. ?EUTHALIA BIPUNCTATA, var. ? Adolias bipunctata, Snell. v. Voll. Tijd. Ent. v. p. 191, t. 10. 4 (1862). A single male from Perak is unlike anything described by Distant or de Niceville, and is nearest to one from Padang in Sumatra which is named bipunctata by Moore. I have not the original description to refer to, but the species is nearest to E. kesava and differs from it in its smaller size, brighter blue border to the hind wings, and beneath in having a series of small pale bluish spots near the apex of fore wing, which in the Sumatran specimen are also obsolete. 1 Since writing this I have seen in Mr. Leech's collection large numbers of an insect from Western China, described by him as E. omei, which evidently represents E. anyte in China ; the male has the upper part of the hind wing yellowish; the female, which he had described as a different species, is almost exactly similar to the female of E. anyte from Sikkim, and confirms the opinion I have expressed above. |