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larger end, whilst about a dozen or so freckles are scattered about 

 tbe rest of the egg. The surface of the eggs is close, hard, and 

 rather glossy, and the sheU is decidedly stout. In shape they are 

 rather broad ovals, considerably depressed and pointed towards the 

 smaller end. 



When taken the eggs were perfectly fresh. 



I examined the stomach of the bird, which was trapped on the 

 nest, and found it to contain a few ants and a mass of small bright 

 blue beetles of a kind which seem to be very numerous on the 

 flowers of orchids growing near the ground. 



ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES 

 FROM THE INBO-MALAYAN REGION. 



By Lionel de Nice'ville, F. E. S., C. M. Z. S., &c. 



( With Plates H, I and J.) 



Family NYMPHALID^. 



Subfamily Satyrinje. 

 1. RAGADIA CRITOLAUS, n. sp. PI. H, Fig. 1, ^ . 

 Habitat : Burma. 

 Expanse : ^ , 1-5 to TV ; ? , 1*6 inches. 



Desckiption : Male. Upperside, both wings with the ground- 

 colour about equally divided between black and white. Forewing 

 with the white area commencing on the inner margin about half its 

 length from the base of the wing and almost reaching the anal 

 angle, extending towards the apex of the wing, which it does not 

 reach, in a triangular or wedge-shaped figure, bearing a series of 

 five round black spots between the veins, of which the three posterior 

 ones are well-formed and separated, the two anterior ones have 

 their outer edges more or less merged into the outer black border of 

 the wing ; the base of the wing is occupied very obliquely by two 

 streaks a little darker than the blackish ground-colour ; there is. also 



