1880.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN BUTTERFLIES. 149 



Chundrabagha valley at 9000 feet elevation in wooded valleys; 

 flying with a floating flight amongst trees near water. ^ 



9. Melit^a balbita. 



^ Mditaa balbita, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 2G8, pi. 43. 



Northern slopes of N.W. Himalayas, Chundrabagha region. 



Lyc^nid^. 



Amongst the Lycaenidse Dr. Watt has obtained both sexes of 

 Lyca^na anana Lampides dipora, Thecla syla, T. icana, the female 

 of T bzrapa^nd. T odata ; also examples of Chnjsopkams kasuapa, 

 Beudorix selira, llerda androcles, I. tamu, and I. sena. Of these 

 the mos interesting is the female of Thecla icana of Moore, which is 

 o a dark smoky brown above, with two bright ochreous spots placed 

 obliquely beyond the d.scoidal cell of the primaries; it is rather 

 larger than the male, measuring 1 inch 8 lines in expanse. 



Papilionid^e. 

 PiERiN^, Bates. 



10. Teracolus tripunctatus. (Plate XV. fig. 4.) 



6. Idmais tripuncta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G8, p. 221, pi. 17. 



2 . Above very like the female oiT.fulvia, but only three cream- 

 coloured spots on the apical area of primaries above, and the margi- 

 nal spots of secondaries larger and confluent; one or two blackish 

 dashes on the disk upon the subcostal and discoidal interspaces. 

 Primaries below bright sulphur-yellow, washed with saffron upon 

 the costa, apical area, and external border; the internal area white; 

 discoidal stigma large and grey with black margin; seven spots 

 across the disk, the first five ferruginous, the last two black, the 

 third and fourth considerably more elongated than the others, the 

 last placed further from the margin; seven marginal squjynose 

 blackish spots ; fringe rose-red : secondaries bright saffron-yellow 

 washed upon outer border with rose-red; a small discoidal ocelloid 

 spot and a disca series of seven spots in a subfalciform series, 

 terruginous : body below cream-coloured, sprinkled with saffron- 

 yellow. Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



Nilgherries, above 6000 feet ; flying on grassy slopes near streams. 



In the absence of specimens of this species in any available col- 

 lection, it has been supposed to be no more than a slight variety of 

 T.fulma of Wallace ; a comparison of the female above described 

 with the type specimens of Wallace's species proves that I was fully 

 justified in separating it as a perfectly distinct species, the coloration 

 of the under surface m 1\ fulvia being creamy and consequently 

 quite unlike 7 . tripunctatus. I have slightly altered the name so as 

 to adopt the orthodox adjectival termination. 



