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This species was described in the same year (1900) as A. alcippoides 

 and A. semperi by Dr. Moore. As all three species are synonymous 

 with the much older A. paUidior^ Staudinger, it is unimportant whose 

 species, Moore's or Fruhstorfer's, is ihe older. The Nicobar race 

 given by Fruhstorfer as A. violetta is the A.fratema of Moore. 

 Subfamily Nymphalin^. 



8. Argtnnis vitatha, Moore. Plate FF, Fi^. 6 Q . 



A vitatha, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lend., 1874, p. 568. 



Habitat : Ziarat, Chitral, Western Himalayas. 



Expanse : $ , 2*8 inches. 



DfiscRiPTiON ; Female. The specimen here figured was sent to me 

 by Mr. W. H. Evans, R.E., and is quite unique. I have seen nothing 

 at all like it. If it is true A. vitatha it bears the same relation to that 

 species that the dimorphic second form of the female (valezina, Esper) 

 does to the normal first form of the female of J. paphia, Linnjeus. It 

 is much larger than normal females of A. vitatha, the upperside of both 

 wings are of a rich deep glossy purple colour instead of being fulvous, 

 the hindwing with a rounded spot at the end of the discoidal- cell a 

 streak beyond it, behind the latter a small round spot in the upper 

 median, another four times the size in the lower median, and a third 

 similar in size to the second in the submedian interspace, and the sub- 

 marginal series of seven lunules all whitish instead of fulvous. On 

 the UNDERSIDE oH\xQ for ewing all the black markings are larger and of 

 a deeper shade than in A. vitatha, and the green ground-colour of the 

 hindioing is much deeper and richer. 



Normally coloured A. vitalha occurs in Gilgit, which is close to 

 Chitral ; the single female here described, which was caught in 

 August, is the only specimen of that species I have hitherto received 

 from Chitral. It probably bears the same relation to normal A. vitatha 

 that the dark females of A. aglaia, Linnaeus, found in England, do 

 to the ordinary light females, as mentioned by Mr. H. J. Elwes, 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 559), A, vitatha being a local race of 

 A, aglaia. 



Family LYC^NID^. 

 9. Cyaniris shelfordii, n. sp. Plate FF, Fig. 1$. 

 Habitat : Matang, 3,200 feet, Sarawak, Borneo. 

 Expanse ; 2*2 inches. 



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