NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM THE NAGA HILLS. o7 



spots greenish or yellowish-white inwardly bordered with chestnut, the 

 lower spots very indistinct ; subapical spots as on npperside ; a pale chest- 

 nut marginal line bordered on both sides with greenish-white. Hind- 

 wing : a greenish-white discal band, inwardly bordered with chestnut as far 

 as vein 2, commencing a little beyond the middle of the costa, where it 

 bends sharply outwards, slightly curves outwards as far as interspace 4 

 and then inwards as far as the middle of interspace 2 and then ao-ain 

 outwards towards the tornal angle which it does not quite reach ; 

 a subtornal black spot, centred with white and ringed with yellow, 

 in interspace 2, above which a postdiscal series of four greenish or 

 yellowish- white spots in interspaces 3, 4, 5 and 6, the lower ones sometimes 

 indistinct ; a pale chestnut marginal line bordered on both sides with 

 greenish- white . 



Abdomen and thorax : upperside yellowish-brown, underside bluish- 

 grey. Eyes reddish-brown. Palpi reddish-brown above and yellowish- 

 white below. Antennte blackish-brown above and yellowish-brown below 

 with a little white speckling near the base ; club black. 



Expanse 2-64 — 2-72 inches. 



This is a well marked form and seems to be intermediate between A. 

 idupi, Doherty, and A. pallas. Leech, from both of which it is however quite 

 distinct. It is decidedly a rare bvitterfiy and in two years collecting only 

 nine males were obtained, seven in September and October at 5,000 ft. and 

 two in May at the foot of the hills. The female is apparently still rarer 

 and I did not manage to get one. I was at first inclined to think that this 

 form was A. ulupi, but on comparison with the co-type of that species in 

 British Museum it proved abundantly distinct. It can be at once dis- 

 tinguished from A. idupi on the upperside by its darker colour and by the 

 black discal band between the yellow bands being immaculate and not 

 broken up into a distinct spot in interspace 2 ; and on the vmderside by its 

 greenish colour, in ulii.'pi it is yellow ; the discal band on the hindwing is 

 angled in the middle whilst in iilupi it is nearly straight. 



90. («) Apatura parvata, Moore. — Apparently very rare. A single male 

 taken at Jakama, 5,000 — 6,000 feet, in October. 



91. Dilipa morgiana, Westwood. — Rather rare ; taken at the foot of 

 the hills in March and June and at 5,000 — 6,000 ft. from July to October. 

 The female is very rare and I only succeeded in obtaining one in August. 

 Most of the specimens were taken in March and October. 



92. Hestina nama, Doubleday. — Very common throughout the year from 

 the foot of the hills up to 6,000 ft. 



93. Parhestina persimilis, Westwood. — A single male taken at Gaspani, 

 1,700 ft., in October. Two females were also taken by my Native 

 Collector in Manipur during the same month. I believe this form has not 

 previously been recorded further east than Sikhim. 



