MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. ?6 



darker ; all t.ln'. linos ami ullier markings much sliarper and the double 

 .siibinaiginal bands deep brown. 



LengtJi of fore wing 72 mm., expanse 151 mm. 



Hall. Siam (near Kanburi, 8.5. 1914). 



TllAUKIA LATIIVI SIAMKNSIS, subsp. n. 



In Seitz's ' Macrule|ndoptera of tiie World,' Ilerr Frulistorfer 

 lias treated the four forms of Thauiia, known to him, as sUH.si'ECiKa of 

 one species, Tlumria aliris, Westw.— at the same time remarking that 

 his latJii/i was almost worthy of specific rank, as it lacked the conspi- 

 cuous tult of androconial hairs in tjie cell of the hind wings. 



Tlie Tring ^Museum possesses, however, from the Tenasserim 

 Valley and Toungoo, liurniah, both typical Tli. a. pseudulin's, with 

 vory narrow, j'ellow, obli(iue band on the fore wings and large cellular 

 androconial tuft on hind wings, and also a form of lathi/i with large 

 wliitish-cream oblique bands on fore wing and no cellular androconia on 

 liind wing (described below). From Peralc there are also in tJie Tring 

 iMuseum a large series (9 cT iT, 3 ? 2 ) oi' ic. pseuilaliris and 2 2 2 of 

 the form oi latlnji describeil below. This proves t\\a.tlatJiiji occurs side 

 by side with a. p^eadaliris and that it is a quite distinct species, 



d . Differs from I. Idihiji in being much smaller, basal one-third 

 of fore wing is suffused witli much deeper, more maroon rufous, and 

 the oblitiue pale band of fore wing is considcrabl}' wider and pure whiti>. 



Length of fore wing 50 nnn., expanse 106 mid. ; I. siavicnsis. 



Length of fore wing 53 nnn., exjianse 112 nun. : I. lallnji. 



Hah. Siam (Hup 15on, 2G.kl914-). 



[The s))ecinien of Slklnipltthcduia ijodfrei/i upon which Lord 

 Ilolhschild based his description was obtained by ]Mr. K. G. Gairdner, 

 in May I'Jli, in dense evergreen forest, about 40 miles N. W. of Kan- 

 buri ( wrong!}' spelt Kambusi in the original descri))tion ), and some 4' 

 miles from the Tenasserim boundary. 1 obtained a second specimen 

 at Hup Bon, in the Sriracha forest in May 1915 and four more from 

 Khao iSebab, Chantabun, in March 191G. 



This very handsome butterdy is found only in dense jungle. 

 Dr. Smith, with whom my collector was working on Khao Sebab, in- 

 forms me it was by no means uncommon there. Numbers of them 

 wi-re seen along the gravelly bed of a small stream at the foot of the 

 iiill, and they were met with at all elevations up to 2000 feet, bub 

 owing to their erratic flight, and the impossibilitj' of following them 

 in the jungle, were most diflicult to obtain. 



Tliaunif, Intliiji ainincntii's is not uncommon in the forest around 

 Hup Hon (wrongly spelt Hoopbok in the original description), but 

 1 have not found it elsewhere in Siani. It is also an extremelj' diffi- 

 cult butterfly to catch. Its home is in the tliickets of the densest 

 jungle, and it seldom ventures into tlie open. It is, however, attracted 

 by fallen and rotting fruit, and nearly all mj^ siiecimens were taken 

 at baits of over-rii)e bananas. [jJaced in shady jungle paths. L. J. G.J 



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