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Show 1891.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 285 R. polynice of Cram., as I have no Javan specimens ; but I cannot separate it from those found in Sumatra, and have little doubt that Guerin's plate represents a female from the Malay Peninsula, as I have one from Nias Island which almost exactly agrees with it. Doherty took two in the Dhansiri valley of Assam, a single specimen at the foot of the Karen Hills, and a pair at Perak, which agree with others from Mergui, Nias, and Sumatra. RHINOPALPA VASUKI. Rhinopalpa vasuki, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. ii. p. 247. Yoma vasuki, Doherty. I received several pairs of this species from Mr. Doherty, taken near Momeit in Upper Burmah. As they are rather variable I should hardly have seen sufficient reason myself to separate it from R. sabina, Cram., which is found in Java and Amboyna; but as I have but one specimen of the latter for comparison, and Mr. Doherty knew hoth species better than I do, I have followed him in treating it as distinct. His remarks already given (above p. 258) should be noted. LlBYTHEA NARINA. Libythea nurina, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 171 (18 19). Libythea rohini, Marsh. J. A. S. B. xlix. pt. ii. p. 248 (1880); de Nicev. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 208 ; Butt, Ind. h. p. 303, t. xxiv. 114 (2)- Doherty sent two specimens of this taken in the Dhansiri valley of Upper Assam in June 1889, and found it common near Momeit in Upper Burmah in June 1890, at about 2000 feet. It agrees very fairly with specimens from Celebes and Amboina in Mr. Godman's collection, which confirms the identification made by de Niceville, and cited above. There is some variation in the size and colour of the spots and band above and of the markings beneath, but the species is perfectly distinct from either of the others found in India. ARASCHNIAPRORSOIDES, n. sp. (Plate XXVII. figs. 5 6,62-) Vanessa prorsoides, Blanch. Comptes Rend. Acad. Sci. lxxii. p. 810 (sine descr.) (1871). This is one of the most interesting additions made by Mr. Doherty to the Indian fauna and was taken abundantly by him above Mao, on the Manipur side of the Naga Hills, at 6000-8000 feet elevation, in Aug.-Sept. 1889, where it was common in open ground near water ; the°larva feeds on a species of nettle. I identify it with Blanchard's species by a specimen taken by the Abbe David at Moupin, which I received under that name from the Paris Museum, and which agrees with numerous others taken by Mr. Pratt at Ta-tsien-lo in East Tibet. It is nearest to the large form of L. levana var. prorsa found in Japan, but may be distinguished by the narrower and straighter white band of the hind wings, beneath by the absence of the broad chocolate outer band. |
