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Show 1892.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 659 COLADENIA INDRANI. Plesioneura indrani, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 789. Some specimens from Bernardmyo have the ground-colour brighter yellow than those from Sikkim and Tenasserim. COLADENIA DAN. Pap. dan, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 88. Hesperia fateh, Koll. Hiigel's Kaschm. p. 454, t. xviii. 5, 6. I am unable to define two forms of this insect, though there appear to be two races-one small and dark, which occurs in Perak, Burmah, and the Karen Hills; the other, from the North-west Himalayas and Sikkim, is larger and brighter. Intermediate forms, however, are common in Sikkim ; and the Javan variety has the band of spots much more golden, and seems more distinct than either of the others. TAPENA AGNI. Plesioneura agni, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. 1883, pt. ii. p. 87, t. x. 4 ?. A specimen from the Naga Hills is darker than the type, as are others from the Karen Hills. TAPENA THWAITESI. Tapena thwaitesi, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 181, t. 67. 2, 2 a. Two males from Bernardmyo and one from Perak. TAPENA LAXMI. Plesioneura laxmi, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. 1888, p. 290, t. xiii. 5 9. A single male of this species was sent from Perak and was described by de Niceville as the type of this sex, his original specimen being a female and not, as described, a male. CEL^ENORRHINUS PULOMAYA. Plesioneura pulomaya, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 787. Celcenorrhinus pulomaya, de Nicev. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. p. 180 (1889). ? C. pyrrha, de Nicev. 1. c. p. 181, t. B. 11 $ . What I take to be a var. of this species was taken in the Naga Hills by Doherty at 6000-7000 feet. It has the two spots nearest the hind margin of the fore wing larger and paler in colour, the outer one being whitish as in G. maculosa, Feld. The markings of the underside are also clearer and paler than in P. pulomaya, but one specimen of the latter from the Naga Hills is like the Sikkim form. I remain in doubt as to whether this is only a variety of P. pulomaya, or whether it is C. pyrrha, of which de Niceville figures only the female, and this is more like what I call C. sumitra. |