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Show 1892.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 637 towards the apex of fore wing above. On the hind wing there is a well-defined dull patch at the base quite free from blue scales, and the tuft of hairs at the base of the hind margin below, which is present in all the other Camenas I know except C. cotys, is absent or very much reduced. The venation agrees with that of C. icetas. Described from a single male taken on the Karen Hills at 4000- 5000 feet. CAMENA CLEOBOIDES, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. figs. 4o*,5 $.) Most like C. cleobis, Godt., but differs in having in the male a large round velvet patch free from blue scales in the cell of the fore wing and with raised androconia. It is smaller in size and has the transverse band on the underside nearer the base and directed more inwards from the hind margin. The band is pale yellow and there is more yellow at the anal angle than in C. cleobis. The shining patch at the base of hind margin of fore wing below, seen in C. cleobis, is wanting, and there is no trace of the tuft of black hairs in the same 2 - Similar, but of a duller paler blue as in C. cleobis, and without the velvety patch on fore wing. Described from four males and two females taken in the Karen Hills. This species is allied to Lolaus iseeus, Hew., from Sarawak, of which Tajuria relata, Dist., is the female. I have this latter from Nias Island in both sexes and a single worn male from Perak. The venation of C. cleoboides differs from that of C. cleobis and C. relata in having only two branches to the subcostal, and it may perhaps on this account, and owing to the well-marked patch on the male, form a new subgenus. MOTA MASSYLA. Myrina massyla, Hew. 111. Di. Lep. Supp. p. 7, t. iii. figs. 87, 88 3 (1869). Mota massyla, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 345, t. xxviii. fig. 210 $ . A female from Margharita agreeing with Khasia specimens, but larger and with longer tails. APHNEUS VULCANUS, var. MAXIMUS, n. var. (Plate XLIII. fig. 5, $•) Papilio vulcanus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 579. A. vulcanus, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 349. A male and two females from the Karen Hills are unlike any other form of this genus in m y collection, and do not agree with any of those described in the 'Butterflies of India ;' but I a m unable to separate them specifically on account of the great amount of variation which prevails in this genus, in which I think too many species have already been made. Above they resemble A. vulcanus in colour, having a slight tinge of blue at the base of the hind wing and a few blue scales at base of fore wing in both sexes. Below they resemble what de Niceville calls elima, Hew., and uniformis, Moore, from Kashmir, in the dull P R O C . Z O O L . S o c - 1 8 9 2 , No. XLIII. 43 place |
