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Show 1 9 0 4 . ] BUTTERFLIES FROM THE N.E. HIMALAYAS. 1 3 5 identified by Mr. Elwes as varieties of P. acco and P. delphius respectively ; the two latter were described as P. acconus and $ by Herr Friihstorfer from the writer's figures. A species of Ragadia, from the Battak Mts. in Sumatra, has been added to the paper, and is here figured for the first time. Family S atyrintE. 1. R a g a d ia s im p le x Fawcett. (Plate IX. fig. 1 .) Ragadia simplex Fawcett, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xx. p. I l l (1897). Expanse 1 in. 6 lin. Habitat. Battak Mountains, Sumatra, June 1896. D escr ip t io n .-Male. Upper side pale fuliginous brown, crossed by two darker fuscous bands running parallel to one another from the costa of the fore wing to the inner margin of the hind wing, the outer being much broadened on the hind wing. There is also a shorter band proximal to the body, which, starting parallel to the others on the fore-wing costa, ends at the origin of the submedian on the fore wing. From the apex of the fore wing to the inner angle of the hind wing runs a submarginal row of small, indistinct, fuscous spots, one in each interspace. The wing-margins are narrowly fuscous, the colour being bounded by a narrow submarginal band looped on the fore wing and on the hind wing parallel to the margin. Under side similar in markings to the upper, but the ground-colour pale buff and the row of spots silver instead of fuscous. The antennae, head, thorax, abdomen, and legs like those of R. crisia Hiibner, from which this species differs in its generally pale ground-colour, and in the ocellate band of crisia being reduced to mere pupils of silver below and fuscous above. Family N ym p h a l in ;E. 2. M e l it .e a t ib e t a n a . (Plate IX. fig. 2.) Melitcea tibetana Fawcett, Abstr. P. Z. S. 1904, No. 9, p. 8, June 14. Expanse 1 in. 2 lin. Habitat. Khamba Jong, Thibet, 15,000 ft. elevation. D escr ip t io n .- Upper side : both wings pale dull ferruginous, apex of fore wing pale ochreous; costa and base of wings and anal margin of hind wing dark fuscous. Fore wing with two black marks in cell and one at its apex; base of cell inside the first mark, and between the second and third marks, pale ochreous ; two transverse series of black discal spots, the inner series highly angled outwardly above the third median nervule, enclosing between them a pale ochreous fascia; a marginal series of pale ochreous lunules inwardly defined with fuscous and |