188/.] LITTI.E-KNUWN BUTTERFLIES FROM INDIA. 4()7 



male oi P. plebeia, and writes regarding them as follows:—"! re- 

 gard these two specimens as belonging to quite distinct species. The 

 male genital somites and appendages differ very considerably in 

 detail, though identical in plan; in the Sikkim species the terminal 

 dorsal segment is furnished with a pair of conspicuous conical 

 spines wliich curve upwards, forwards, and backwards from the 

 disk, and is shorter, and the upper lobe of the claspers is smaller 

 and is embraced at its lower border by the commensurately deve- 

 loped spine of the lower lobe ; while in the Ceylon species the 

 terminal dorsal segment is furnished with shorter spines, from the 

 base of each of which a small cusf) is given off backwards, aud the 

 sclerite is of greater antero-posterior extent; and the upper .lobe of 

 the claspers is more curved and longer, extending much beyond the 

 spine of the lowe'r lobe ; and the intermittent organ ends in a bilobed 

 spiny brush in the one, and is apparently sim|)le in the other." 

 P. pleleia is also near the P. seriata, Moore ' ; the latter, however, 

 is known to me only by the description aud figures. 



P. plebeia is a common species iu Sikkim at low elevations. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XXXIX. 



Fig. L Tajuria alhiplaga, r?, p. 459. 



2. , ?,p.459. 



3. Cheritrella truncipennis, ? , p. 456. 

 4. , d-.p. 456. 



5. Lethe nicetclla, ij, p. 448. 



6. ■ ■ tamima, ^ , p. 449. 



7. guhiihal, cf, p. 450. 



8. brisanda, cJ, p. 451. 



Plate XL. 



Fig. 1. Tajuria melasfigma, .J, p. 400. 



2. Parnara fhhcia, cJ , p. 460. 



3. Tajuria istroidca, J , p. 458. 



4. KUaaera wimberleyi, 5 , p. 462. 



5. Tickerra acte, cb-y-season form, c?, p. 457. 



6. Rupala distorta, J, p. 401. 



7. Tarnam pagana, (j', p. 465. 



8. Halpe honorci, ^ P- 464. 



9. Pksioncttra jiavocincta, J, p. 464. 



10. Isofeinon flavalum, $, p. 463. 



11. Zephyr us pavo, 5, p. 460. 



' Hesperia seriata, Moore, Proc. Zool. So,\ 1878, p. OSS ; from Ceylon. 



