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male mark : he records striata from the Nilgiris, which has nothing to do 

 with the insect under consideration as it has the ocellus on the forewing 

 above prominent apart from other differences. I think that singala may- 

 be taken as occurring in various parts of India : it differs from avanta in 

 the absence of a male mark, usually only one ocellus on the hindwing above, 

 indistinct bands on the forewing below, which are even in width and paral- 

 lel to one another, and the obsolescence of the apical ocellus of the hind- 

 wing below. 



16. Ypthima philomela = baldus : I do not think that philomela occurs 

 in the C. P. Baldus is very common round Pachmarhi and specimens from 

 there do not differ from specimens I have from Sikkim and the Palnis. 



17. Ypthima ariaspa =■ inica included as No. 15. 



May I venture to criticise Mr. Bell's treatment of the Ypthimas in the 

 admirable series of articles on the Common Butterflies of the Plains now 

 appearing in the Society's Journal. The species described are philomela, 

 asterope, hubneri and ceylonica : but why should not baldus and inica have 

 a place, especially as the highly localised Melanitis bethami has been accord- 

 ed one ? As regards philomela, Mr. Bell has taken word for word Bingham 

 description and localities and has added " I". baldus is given as a species 

 extending from the Himalayas to Bengal, Central, Western and Southern 

 India : Assam to Tenasserim. It is said to differ from Philomela in having 

 the striae coarser on the underside." Now Mr. Bell's figure of " philomela " 

 shows an insect with distinct subbasal and discal bands on the underside, 

 but there is no mention of these important features in his description : the 

 figure is in fact what Bingham calls baldus. Of course until recently 

 Bingham's baldus was known as philomela and Bingham's philomela as tabebla: 

 the nomenclature of these two insects seemed however to have been finally 

 cleared up by "Watson in the Society's Journal Vol. X., p. 218. Can 

 it be that Mr. Bell disagrees with Bingham on this point ; if so I think 

 this should be made clear and in any case the description and figure ought 

 to agree with one another. 



31. Neptis nandina. — Capt. Graham in October 1909 obtained some of the 

 yerburii, soma group of Neptis in Pachmarhi. I did not have much time 

 to examine them but noted that the markings were unsullied and the bands 

 of the hindwing of even width : this being so they should be soma hamp- 

 sonii. 



59a. Azanus ubaldus. — Common at Jabalpur in the autumn and cold 

 weather : the local form seems to be on its way to Uranus. 



61a. Nacduba hampsoni. — I obtained a male in Pachmarhi in October 

 1906 : it agrees well with Bingham's description and Mr. Doncaster con- 

 firmed my diagnosis. 



88. Terias cssiope = libythea. 



89. Terias rubella = venata. 



