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Show 284 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [APR. 21, CHARAXES JALYSUS. C.jalysus, Feld. Reise Nov. iii. p. 438, t. lix. 5 (1866) ; Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 108, t. xiii. 4. Two specimens from the Karen Hills. CHARAXES DURNFORDI. C. durnfordi, Dist. Ent. 1884, p. 191; Rhop. Mai. p. 432, t. xl. 8. Several specimens were taken by Doherty at the foot of the Karen Hills which agree with Distant's figure. CHARAXES LUNAWARA. C. lunawara, Butl. Lep. Ex. p. 99, t. xxxvii. 2; Butt. Ind. ii. p. 282. Two specimens agreeing with those from Sikkim were sent from the Karen Hills. PROTHOE FRANCKII. Prothoe franckii, Wall. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 80. Prothoe angelica, Butl. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, xvi. p. 53 (1885) Butt. Ind. ii. p. 295, front fig. 120 ( 6 )• Prothoe uniformis, Butl. 1. c. ; Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 434, t. 38. fig. 4. Occurs not uncommonly at the foot of the Karen Hills in East Pegu, and at Perak, where the specimens are somewhat larger and have in the male less white in the blue band of the fore wing. I cannot see how to distinguish them from a Sumatran specimen in my collection which is P. franckii, and should say that Prothoe uniformis, Butl., as figured by Distant from Perak, was also the same species. The females differ in being larger than the males, have the blue band whitish shaded with blue on the edges, and the wings below the band dull greenish instead of bluish black. Mr. Doherty calls attention to the tuft of hairs at the base of the hind wing above in the male ; this varies in colour from fulvous to black. PROTHOE CALEDONIA. Nymphalis caledonia, Hew. Ex. Butt. i. p. 86, t. 43. 3, 4. Prothoe Caledonia, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 110, t. 13.9. Three specimens of this splendid species were taken by Doherty at Petichaung, at the foot of the Karen Hills, and two others at Perak. ? RHINOPALPA POLYNICE. Pap. polynice, Cram. iii. p. 4, t. 195. D, E ( 6 )- ? Vanessa eudoxia, Guer. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 44; Deless. Voy. Inde, p. 73, t. xx. $ (1843). Rhinopalpa fulva, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 399; Butt. Ind. ii. p. 246, t. xxiii. 102 (6). I cannct be sure of the identification of the Burmese R. fulva with |