1922] Pendlebury: A New Malayan Butterfly. 283 



XXI. A BUTTERFLY NEW TO THE MALAY 

 PENINSULA. 



By H. M. Pendlebury, F.E.S. 

 Systematic Entomologist, F.M.S. Museums. 



Amongst some insects recently obtained in the Main 

 Range north of Gunong Berumbun is a butterfly of a 

 species not yet recorded from further south than 

 Tenasserim : — 



FAMILY NYMPHALIDAE. 



Sub-family Satyr inae. 



Lethe verma Koll. 



Lethe verma Fruhst. in Seitz' Macrolepidoptera, IX, p. 324; 

 Bingham, Fauna of British India, Butterflies I., p. 84. 



$ , Lubok Tamang, Pahang, F.M.S., 4,000 feet, Sept. 

 8th 1922. Native Collector. 



This individual which has an expanse of 68 mm., the 

 prominent ochreus-white oblique discal band on the fore- 

 wings beings 7 mm. broad in the middle, comes nearest 

 to the wet-season form L. V. sintica which, according to 

 Fruhstorfer " . . . . presents very definitely the aspect 

 associated with a rainy district ; compared with verma 

 from the dry West of the region." L. v. stenopa Fruhst., 

 recorded from Tenasserim, ".... shows a reversion to- 

 wards verma ; comes likewise from districts with a small 

 rainfall and hence again with predominantly dry-season 

 facies." 



Previously recorded from N.-W. and E. Himalayas ; 

 Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Burma and Tenasserim. 



Fruhstorfer, I.e., places this species under group 

 Hermias, Fruhst. and records six subspecies as follows: — 



L. V. verma Koll. Common in Kashmir and 

 Mussurie. 



L. V. sintica Fruhst. Sikkim and Assam. 



L. V. stenopa Fruhst. Tonking, Hainan, Shan States 

 and Tenasserim. 



L. V. laticincta Fruhst. Wet season form, China. 



L. V. cinctomani Fruhst. Melanotic island extreme, 

 Formosa. 



L. V. satarnus Fruhst. Mountain form, Omeishan, 

 W. China. 



