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the difference between this race and wnbratus, and said 1t was 
probably widely distributed. He added that Mr. Evans had 
sent him 2 ? and 096 from the Isle of May to name. 
AGRIADES THETIS AB. COELESTIS.—Mr. H. RowLanp-Brown 
brought for exhibition examples of Agriades thetis (bellargus) 
ab. 2 coelestis, Obthr., taken last August at Dompierre-sur- 
Mer, Charente-Inférieure. He said that so far as is known 
at present, this brilliant form of the blue Q is confined in 
western Europe to the west and south-west of France ; roughly 
speaking, between the valley of the Loire and the Gironde, 
where it occurs locally not unfrequently ; the blue form of 
A. coridon 9, var. syngrapha, also being found in the same 
calcareous region. Examples from Angouléme, Charente, 
and from Auzay, Vendée, as well as from Dompierre-sur-Mer, 
are figured by M. Charles Oberthiir in his ‘‘ Lépidoptérologie 
Comparée,” fase. iv, pl. xix. 
SomE New Species anp Forms or Iyp1an Burrerriies.— 
Mr. G. W. V. be Rué-Puitire exhibited several new Indian 
butterflies and communicated the following notes upon 
them :— 
“ Kuploea mulciber, Cramer, var. duarseri g. The large 
Indo-Malayan genus Huploea is divided into several. groups or 
sub-genera, according to the nature or position of the sex 
marks on the male insect. The new form falls into the sub- 
genus 7'repsichrois, Hiibner, in which the male mark consists 
of a large patch of specialised scales on the upperside of the 
hindwing. The only distinct representative of this sub-genus 
in India is the common Z. mulciber, Cramer = EL. midamus, L. ; 
and, pending further material, the new insect is being treated 
as a distinct variety of this species. A full description of 
duarseri was published in the “‘ Journal of the Bombay Natural 
History Society,” vol. xx, p. 755. It differs from 2. muleiber— 
a normal specimen of which is shown for purposes of com- 
parison—in the almost entire absence of pale violescent spots 
on the upperside of the fourewing—spots which are a constant 
and striking feature of the latter. The specimen was taken 
near the foot of the Bhutan Hills, in November, 1908. 
“Charaxes raidhaka, mihi ¢. <A detailed description of this 
new species appeared in the “ Records of the Indian Museum,” 
