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179. Euthalia francie. 
Adolias francie, Gray, Lep. Nep., p. 12, t. xiv. (1846). 
Euthalia francie, Butt. Ind., ii., p. 202. 
A rare species in recent years in Sikkim, probably 
from the same causes as have been mentioned above. 
It probably occurs at the same elevations and seasons 
as the last. I have taken it near Cherra Punji, in the 
Khasia, in September, and find that the Khasia speci- 
mens can be distinguished from Sikkim ones by their 
narrower white bands. 
180. Huthalia phemius. 
Itanus phemius, Doubl., Hew., Gen. Di. Lep., i1., t. xli., 
fig. 4, # (1850). 
A. sancara, Moore, Cat. E.1.C., p. 195 (1857), 2. 
Euthalia phemius, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1859, p. 65, t. i., fig. 3; Butt. Ind., 11, p. 218. 
A common species up to 3 or 4000 ft. from April to 
December. With regard to the female of this insect, 
there is some question. De Nicéville seems positive 
that the insect described by Moore as sancara, of which 
no male is known, is the female of phemius, though the 
difference in the markings is certainly very great. 
Moore, on the other hand, is equally sure that what 
de Nicéville thinks to be the female of jama is the true 
female of phemius, and the markings of this insect, of 
which I have seen two specimens only in his own and the 
British Museum collection, seem to favour this view. But 
as phemius the male sex, and sancara the female, are both 
common at similar elevations in Sikkim, whilst jama is 
so rare that I have only two old male examples from 
Wilson’s collection and no females, I think de Nicéville’s 
contention is probably correct, as there is, as far as I 
know, no single instance among the Nymphalide of the 
female sex being commoner than the male, and there is 
no other insect in Sikkim, except phemius, which I can 
suppose to be the male of Moore’s sancara* 
** Moller writes that he has seen the male phemiws chasing what 
Moore calls sancara, whilst of the true jama 2 (phemiws 2 apud 
Moore) he has never procured more than one specimen, 
