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Show 288 ON B U T T E R F L I E S F R O M P E R A K . [Apr. 21, Singapore ; the other bears a note by Doherty as follows:- " This may be a new species. I have caught many males of orphna, Bdv., both in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula ; they all had the band broad and equal." The bands of this specimen, however, are not more than half as broad as in orphna and are indented in two places on each side, so that they are half divided. It may be only an occasional variety, but in any case I would not separate it without some other specimens. STIBOGES NYMPHIDIA. Stiboges nymphidia, Butl. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 309, t. xxii. 1 ( $ ) ; Butt. Ind. ii. p. 316, t. xxiv. 119 ( 2 )• Seems common at Perak. A single female, in which the border is narrower, was taken at Momeit in Upper Burmah at about 2000 feet. DODONA DIP05A. Dodona dipcea, Hew. Ex. Butt. iii. Dod. t. i. 3 (1865) ; Butt. Ind. ii. 311, t. xxiv. 116 ( J ) . Taken at about 6000 feet in the Naga Hills by Doherty. DODONA OUIDA. Dodona ouida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 771 ; Butt. Ind. ii. p. 311. This seems to be as common in the Karen Hills as in Sikkim and the Khasias. DODONA ADONIRA. Dodona adonira, Hew. Ex. Butt. iii. Dod. t. i. 1,2; Butt. Ind. ii. p. 312. Occurs in the Naga Hills at 5000-6000 feet, but not commonly. A single specimen also sent from Bemardmyo. DODONA DEODATA. (Plate XXVII. fig. 8, 6 •) Dodona deodata, Hew. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 151 (1876); Butt. Ind. ii. ]). 312. ? Dodona longicaudata, de Nicev. Proc. A. S. B. 1881, p. 121 ; Butt. Ind. ii. 313, t. xxiv. 117(6*). Several specimens taken in the Karen Hills at 4000-5000 feet are intermediate between de Niceville's figure and Hewitson's type, which is much worn and broken. I think that there is little doubt that the two names refer to one species, as the breadth of the white band is variable, the base of the wings above is not really crossed by three bands of brown, but is brown with (in some specimens) indications of the silvery stripes below, and the tails are broken off in the type of D. deodata; thus there remains nothing by which to separate them. I have not, however, any Khasia specimens for comparison, but Doherty, who has seen them, considers it identical. |