LEPIDOPTEROLOGIE COMPAREE IO5 



up with the fuscous-olive ground-colour, and only visible in 

 outlinc. As in vicimi, the basai blotch is prominently produccd 

 in the centre, but the two subapical blotch arc not confluent. » 



A comparison of a more extentive 

 séries of spécimens of this form, m 

 the Hocking Collection in the British 

 Muséum, in which there occurs consi- 

 dérable variation in the distinctness 

 of the bîotch in the inner marçin 



l'^ii;. 'JO — Tlii/dtiid Cor/iiri/d Mdoro. 



has led Mr. Butler to consider this d'ap. Hutif-r (///. 0/ r////,r,,/.s>r/- 



iiirii. VII. |.l, (XXV, f-g. 12). 



a mère variety of TA. Bâtis, and not 



a distinct species. In this he is, I hâve no doubt, right; but it 

 must still be considered a merely local form, and not a variety 

 of gênerai occurence (i). » 



Voici maintenant quelques suggestions et précisions données 

 par Mr. A. G. Butler, extraites des Illustrations of typical 

 spécimens of Lepîdoptera Hcterocerd, 1889, p. 48, avec la figu- 

 ration reproduite ici (Fig. 26) d'après un exemplaire appartenant 

 aux collections du British Muséum : 



« A little duller than typical T. bâtis, and with the central 

 dorsal spot of the primaries obsolète, giving the insect nearly the 

 character of T. vicina of Java; secondaries darker than in most 

 examples of T . bâtis. Expanse of wings 40-45 millim. » 



« Dharmsala. » 



« At sugar, and from larvae on rapsberry; the larvae found 

 i6th June, pupae 20th. A curiously twisting larva. » 



« Although Mr. Hocking's collection contained six examples 

 of this form, ail differing from the European type in the above 

 noted characters, there was aiso one example of the normal 

 pattern and coloration, showing that although T . cognata is the 



(i) Warren (W.). — On Lefido-ptera collected by Major Y erhiiry in Western 

 India in 1SS6 and i88y (Proceedings of the Zoolog. Soc. London, 1888, p. 299). 



