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Show 1892.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 621 Karen Hills agree well with the figures referred to. Hewitson's of the female is, as de Niceville remarks, quite different. With the above came two other females which are quite different in colour above, having large orange patches, and agree nearly with Hewitson's plate of P. phraatica. They are, however, not the same as what I take to be the male of P. phraatica from Tavoy, as figured by Distant, and may be one of those cases of female dimorphism of which we have very similar instances among the Japanese Theclas, where orange and blue females occur at the same time and place. It may be, however, that these belong to a different male which Doherty did not take. PlTHECOPS HYLAX. Pap. hylax, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 526. Pithecops hylax, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 49, t. xxvi. 161. Occurs in the Naga Hills at 3000 ft., but not so commonly as Neo-pithecops zalmora, Butler. PITHECOPS FULGENS. Pithecops fulgens, Doh. J. A. S. B. vol. lviii. pt. ii. p. 127, t. x. 6 o*; Butt. Ind. iii. p. 50. Occurs commonly at Margharita, but taken nowhere else. A very distinct and pretty species. I have not recognized the female, which is described as wanting the blue of the male. NEOPITHECOPS ZALMORA. Pithecops zalmora, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 161 (1869). Neopithecops zalmora, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 53, t. xxvi. 162 2- Sent by Doherty only from the Naga Hills, where it seems common at about 2000 ft. TARAKA HAMADA. Miletus hamada, Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 361 (1875); Elwes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 882. Taraka hamada, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 5, t. xxvi. 164 2 • I am still unable to separate the Indian from the Japanese form, which occurs also in China, though I have seen none from the Indian region without some white on the fore wing, which in Japan is black. Doherty sent it from Margharita, Bernardmyo, and the Naga and Karen Hills, but it seems nowhere common. He describes in MSS. (copied by de Niceville on p. 59 of Butt. Ind. vol. iii.) another species, T. mahanetra, from Perak, which by the description seems distinct, but the only specimens taken are said to be lost. MEGISBA MALAYA. Lyccena malaya, Horsf. Cat. E. I. C. p. 70 (1823). Meyisba malaya, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 61, t. xxvi. 165 3 • Sent from the Naga and Karen Hills. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1892, No. XLII. 42 |