600 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXI. 



I have placed this form as an aberration of /. brahma but it may be a 

 hybrid or even a distinct species. In colouring it is intermediate between 

 /. androcles and /. brahma. I obtained two specimens, one tak^ by 

 myself at 4,400 ft. and another taken by my collector at 7,000 ft. In 

 the de Niceville collection, now in the Calcutta Museum, there is a speci- 

 men of this form, placed amongst Ilerda vuidi^mnctata which may be one 

 of the two sports or hybrids referred to by him in his " Butterflies of 

 India, vol. iii, p. 330 " and which he thinks may possibly be a hybrid of 

 I. brahma and I. viridipunctata ; if this form is a hybrid at all it is more 

 likely to be one of /. brahina and /. androcles as the extent of the 

 coloring and the character of the scales agrees with these two species 

 whereas in /. viridipunctata the colour is restricted and the scales have a 

 powdery appearance, and these characters would to a certain extent be 

 indicated in the hybrid while they are not in the present form. 



329. CamenSli Ctesia, Hewitson. — Common at 5,000 ft. from July to De- 

 cember, two males also taken, at the foot of the hills in May and July. 



330. Tajviria maCUlatllSy Heioitson. — A single male taken at Gaspani in 

 March. 



331. TaJTiria illurjiS, Hewitson.— A. single male at 5,000 ft. in Sep- 

 tember. 



332. AphaSBUS syama, Horsjield. — Very common at the foot of the 

 hills. Rainy season forms taken from August to November and dry 

 season forms in November and March. 



333. Apliaseus lOllita, Horsjield. — Common at Kohima and up to 

 7,000 ft. from June to October ; also a few specimens obtained at the foot 

 of the hills from February to July. 



334. Aplmseus khUrdainiS, Moore. — I do not know if I have identified 

 this insect correctly ; the male is like A. ictis but without any orange spot. 

 The female is a good deal larger than the male and has a Y shaped red 

 post discal patch and has the basal area of the forewing speckled with 

 bluish grey ; these scales also appearing sparsely on the dorsal half of the 

 hindwing, being most numerous near the tornal angle. 



3 35. ApliaaeTlS SP- Pi. ii., fig. 5. — Four males of an A2)hncei(sweTe taken 

 between 4,000 ft: and (i,000 ft. in September and October which do not 

 quite agree with any form in the " Butterflies of India." The underside 

 ao-rees with the description of A. suni but the upperside has no red discal 

 spot. Mr. Elwes in P. Z. S. 1892, p. 638, describes and on pi. 43 (6) figures 

 a female Aphnaeus from the Karen Hills which agrees with my males on the 

 underside and in the coloring of the anal lobe on the upperside, and 

 appears to be the female of this form. I showed it to Colonel Swinhoe who 

 pronounced it to be ^4. ^j>fy«<«m<;?, Moore ; de Niceville seems to think >4. 

 pef/uanus^=A. syama and is the dry season form of it. 



Whatever the present form is, it certainly is not the dry season form 



