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In March and April a few dry season forms were obtained in the Manipur 

 VaUey at 2,600 ft. 



An hermaphrodit was taken at Takabama, Naga Hills, 7,000 ft. in August 

 which has the right pair of wings male in character and the left \)&\x female. 



Cyanikis binghami. Chapman. 



A single male was obtained in Manipur in July. 1 failed to recognise it 

 and sent it with a lot of other butterflies to Major W. H. Evans who on 

 recognising it to belong to this species very kindly returned it to me. He 

 unfortunately only put " Manipur " on the label and so the exact locality 

 where it was taken must remain uncertain. Another male was subsequently 

 taken at Sebong, Manipur, in April. 



Cyanikis imel^noideh, n. sp. (PI. Ill, Fig. 28 d" ). 



Male : very near C. onelcena, Doherty, from which it differs in the following 

 respects : — 



Upperside : Both wings : black border broader and therefore the blue 

 discal area, brilliantly irridescent in some lights, slightly more restricted. 

 Underside : Both wings : the submarginal series of spots further removed 

 from the margin, larger and more irregular. 



Female : UpjX'rside : both wings very similar to the female of C. inispa. 

 Underside : markings as in male. 



The ground colour of the underside is pure ivhitish-grey as in the descrip- 

 tion of C„ melcena, but specimens of the latter species in the de Niceville 

 collection have the ground colour distinctly broicnish-c/reij. but this may be 

 due to the specimens being old. 



Six males and a female were taken on the Irang River, Western Manipur 

 Hills, in December ; two males at the same place in January and a very 

 smaU male in -fuly. The small wet-season-form taken in July differs from 

 the dry-season-form only in having the spots on the underside comparatively 

 larger. 



Cyanikis doheexy, n. sp. (PI. IV, Figs. 45, 46, w. s. and d. s.c5' S)- 



Male. Upperside: Forewing : costal and terminal areas broadly black, 

 extending to beyond a third of the dorsum from the tornus and filling the 

 upper half of the cell ; the rest of the wing greyish, shot with pale iridiscent 

 blue in certain lights. Hindwing : almost entirely black brown with a very 

 small discal patch of grey scales. Underside: very similar to C. transpectus 

 wet-season-form except that the hindwing has an extra spot at the extreme 

 base of interspace 7 agreeing in this respect with C. puspa ; discal spot 

 in interspace 7 not more prominent than spot in 6. The above is a 

 description of the wet-season-form ; the dry-season-form differs on upper- 

 side in being much paler with white discal patches on both wings and 

 in having the dark terminal border on forewing narrower. Underside: 

 markings as in the wet-season-form but rather smaller ; the terminal 

 markings not so distinct. 



Expanse: <S (5" l-17"-l-2". 



Three wet season males were taken by my native collectors at Kirbari 

 Naga HiUs at 6,000 ft. in July, September and the beghniing of October. 

 A single male of the dry-season-form was obtained at the same place at the 

 end of October. This is a very distinct form and on the upperside the wet- 

 season-form looks rather like a very small and dark specimen of C. vardhana ; 

 on the underside however it is quite different and the markings are nearest 

 to the wet-season-form of C. transpectus agreeing with it in having a 

 spot at base of interspace 1 but differing in having an additional spot at 



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