302 THE entomologist's record. 



Brit. Butts., vol. iii.) from the real dipora, Moore, led to a considerable 

 amount of confusion, and we find Elwes, in his " Catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera of Sikkim" {Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1888, pp. 382-383), 

 sinking dipnra, Moore, as a synonym of parrhasius, Fab., and 

 asserting that " this is a tropical form of the wide-ranging L. 

 arr/iades, under the name dipora, Moore. It seems rare in Sikkim 

 at low elevations, but is very common on the Khasia Hills in 

 August and September, at 4000ft. -6000ft. on the grassy downs, 

 and I have taken it also at Galle, in Ceylon." It happens, however, 

 that the specimens of dipora {teste Elwes) in the British Museum coll., 

 taken in north-west India by Elwes, are examples of diporides, Chap- 

 man, /.('., they are really arr/iades, Pall., and hence is largely explained the 

 cause of his disbelief in dipora and parrhasius as species apart from 

 arf/iades. These, however, would possibly not include the three speci- 

 mens he mentions that he had from Ceylon, nor the one from Java, 

 all of which almost certainly would be parrhasius. This latter is so 

 distinct a species that one marvels at de Niceville sinking it as an/iades. 

 It was described over a century ago by Fabricius, and so specialised 

 are the ancillary appendages that it appears to be, on this ^^round, 

 more remote from Everes arr/iades than are Capido minimus and C. 

 sebrns, so much so that the name Binf/hainia has been suggested as a 

 new generic name for it {Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts., vol. iii., pp. 41-43). 



When we started collecting the material for our account of Everes 

 arriiades, to be published in The Natural Histori/ of British Lepidoptera, 

 vol. ix., Ave were obliged to follow the authorities, and among other 

 details, prepared accounts of E. alcetas, E. dipora, E. parrhasius, and 

 E. poh/sperchinus, in the belief that they were merely forms of E. 

 argiades. The detailed accounts, thereof would, therefore, no longer 

 be in place in our work, and yet it seemed advisable not to destroy the 

 material collected without publication. Hence we have already printed 

 {antea, pp. 231 et seij.) our account of Everes alcetas, Hoft'mansegg, and 

 now propose publishing the much shorter notes on the two Asiatic 

 species, that have been disentangled by Chapman from the "lumping" 

 muddle, with which we started. 



Everes dipora, Moore, " Proc. Zool. Soc. Loncl.," p. 506, pL, xxxi., fig. 8 

 (1865); Doherty, " Journ. As. Soc. Beng.," iv., pt. 2, p. 132 (1886). Parrhasius, 

 Elw., " Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend.," pp. 362-3, in part (1888). Argiades, cTe Nicev., 

 "Butts. India," iii., p. 137, in part (1890).— Expanse <? ^Jin. Upperside dull 

 violet-blue ; hindwing with a tail ; a discocellular spot on forewing, and exterior 

 margins of both wings broadly brown ; cilia grey with a narrow medial brown line. 

 Underside greyish cream-colour, exterior margins defined by a brown line ; fore- 

 wing with a narrow discocellular streak, and a transverse discal straight series of 

 white encircled black spots ; a submarginal row of pale brown spots ; hindwing 

 with three basal and a thrice interrupted discal series of eight white-encircled 

 black spots ; a medially disposed marginal orange-red band, bordered inwardly 

 with brown lunules, outwardly with (two clear, the rest ill-defined) black spots ; 

 cilia as above. Habitat : Kassowlie, N.-W. Himalayas. A slight delicate species 

 from Kassowlie, not very common, generally found near water (Colonel A. M. 

 Lang. E.E.). Everywhere in Kumaon from 1000ft. to 10000ft. The red area on 

 the hindwing below is variable ; the ? is dark brown above ; the c? is indis- 

 tinguishable from E. parrhasius, Fab. (Doherty). Colonel Lang has taken it near 

 Naini Tal, from 3500ft. to 5500ft., June and July, and in the valleys above 

 Eaniket at about 5500ft., in April (Moore). Distribution: N.-W. Himalayas — 

 Kasauli; Kashmir (Moore); Kumaon, lOOOft.-lOOOOft. (Doherty); Naini Tal, 

 3500ft. -5o00ft., above Ranikhet at 5500ft. (Lang); Kulu, Khasia, Kashmir, N. 

 India, North-west Himalayas, Simla, Campbellpore (teste examples in Brit. Mus. 

 Coll.) (Chapman). 



