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Fruh. A variety of the wet season form with an extra eye spot on the 

 hindwing is triocellata, Fruh. 



(46) Cirrochroa bajadeta, Nl. Fruhstofer states that the oldest name for 

 this species is emalea, God., and that the Indian race should be so named ; 

 the dry season form is martini, Fruh. Bajadeta=^ravana, M., is the Javan 

 race of emalea. 



(47) Cirrochroa mithila, M. This is placed as a race of tyche, Fd., from 

 the Philippines. 



(48) Cirrochroa aoris, Db. Jiraria, Swin., is the dry season form. Stra- 

 mentica, Fruh., is a wet season form with a straw coloured zigzag band on the 

 underside. 



(49) Argynnis maia, Cr. The Indian form probably belongs to the 

 eastern r&ce 2^asargades, Fruh. 



(50) Argynnis aglaia, L. Fruhstorfer names the dark race occurring at 

 low elevations in Chitral yopala. I have already given this form the name 

 ashyetha,{3 . B. N. H. S. XXI, 982) ; the description of ashretha was publish- 

 ed on March 31st, 1912, and ol yojxila on April 11th, 1912, so the name 

 ashretha will stand. 



(51) Argynnis adippe, L. Fruhstorfer describes a new race, mohmando- 

 rwn, from the border between Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier 

 Province ; it is said to be larger and darker. 



(52) Argynnis pales, W. V. The small pale form from Kashmir and Kulu 

 is sipora, M.; of baralacha, M., Fruhstofer merely says "separated by Seitz." 

 The large form from Afghanistan and Ladak usually called generator, Stdg., 

 is said to be nearer to korla, Fruh. On account of its variegated under- 

 side Fruhstorfer separates the Sikkim race as eupales. From the 

 specimens in my own collection I certainly think that the Sikkim race is 

 worth a name. 



(53) iVIeiitsea didyma, Esp. Fruhstorfer gives as races chitralensis, M. 

 from Chitral : robertsi, But., from Afghanistan ; persea, Koll., from Rawal- 

 pindi, and dodysoni, GRS., from Baluchistan. I adhere to the opinion given 

 in my list of Indian butterflies that the only didyma race flying in India is 

 chitralensis, and that the other allied Melitceas are races of trivia, W. V. 

 In Chitral didyma chitralensis and trivia miMa, mihi, fly together, and I 

 think that the trivia race occurring from the Punjab to Baluchistan should 

 be called persea, though it is possible that the Baluchistan form is worth 

 separating under the name dodysoni. 



(54) Ergolis ariadne, Joh. The nymotypical form is from Java. Fruh- 

 storfer describes the race that flies from the Himalayas to Burma as 

 pallidior, difl"ering in being larger and having a fiery red yellow band in 

 the underside of the hindwing. The Southern race is minorata, M., 

 described from Ceylon, smaller and with the black lines above more promi- 

 nent. Indica, M., said to occur in Calcutta, Madras and the Nilgiris only 

 differs from minorata in being slightly smaller. 



(55) Ergolis merione, Cr., was described from the Coromandel Coast 

 and is the form occupying the whole of South India ; taprobana, M., can 

 only be separated from the typical form as being slightly smaller. Tapes- 

 trina, M., was described from Dehra Dun and is the race that flies from 

 Simla to Assam ; it is distinguished by paleness of the dry season form 

 and the light grey longitudinal bands below. The Burmese form is pharis, 

 Fruh. ; it is much lighter and more variegated above. Fruhstorfer makes 

 no mention of the small pale form that occurs in the Central Provinces, 

 with a dry season form that is much more variegated than any other 

 specimens of merione that I have seen form anywhere in India and Burma. 



(56) Cethosia biblis, Drury. Fruhstorfer states that biblis is Chinese and 

 calls the Indian race tisamena ; he does not say how tisamena differs from 



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