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Show 1892.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 619 agreeing in this respect with three from Pulo Laut; but there also three other forms from Pulo Laut, and one from Nias (apocha, Kheil), which differ again in their markings below, and make me think that the species is either a very variable one, or that there are several species not yet distinguished, and which can only be identified with certainty by a study of their anal organs. PARAGERYDUS TARAS. Paragerydus taras, Doh. J. A. S. B. Iviii. pt. ii. p. 437, t. xxiii. 10; Butt. Ind. iii. p. 27. Two specimens from the Karen Hills, so named by Doherty, are much damaged and have lost their abdomens, but agree on the underside with the figure. The species is well described and figured by Doherty, who says that its prehensores are obviously different from those of P. horsfieldi. He also thinks that the genus Paragerydus of Distant is not distinct from Allotinus, Felder. ALLOTINUS MULTISTRIGATUS. Allotinus multistrigatus, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. Iv. pt. ii. p. 253, t. xi. 11 3, 12 2 5 Butt- Ind- ui- P- 29- A female from the Naga Hills agrees with specimens taken by myself at Cherrapunji in the Khasia Hills. ALLOTINUS ALKAMAH. 1 Allotinus alkamah, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 452, t. xliv. 3 3 (1886). 1 Allotinus subviolaceus, Feld. Reise Nov. t. 35. figs. 27, 28 (1865). I have no Burmese specimens of this, but two females from Pulo Laut, which agree with Felder's plate of A. subviolaceus from Java, also agree with Distant's figure, and make me think that the character mentioned by him, viz. the larger violaceous area of the fore wing, is inconstant. ALLOTINUS PANORMIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. figs. 8 3, 9 2 •) Allotinus panormis, Doh. MSS. A single female of this distinct species was so labelled, but 1 can find no description published by Doherty. It came from Petichaung at the foot of the Karen Hills. He also sent a female from Perak which appears to be the same species, though the markings of the underside are not quite identical. 3 & 2 • Above dark brown, below milk-white, with numerous pale brown strigaa on both wings, which coalesce into an irregular bar beyond the middle of the wings and in the female form a line of lunules across hind wing ; a row of white dots margined with black along the border, which with the apical area is darker brown; fringes paler. Expanse, 3 30 mm., 2 38 mm. |