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Butterflies above referred to, which was published in the Trans- 

 actions of the Entomological Society of London for 1893. Under 

 the present species he makes the following remarks with refer- 

 ence to Mr. de Niceville's recent paper on the variation of 

 S. harrisii : — " I think if Mr. de Niceville had written that out 

 of three hundred S. hinotata received bj him from the Eev. 

 W. A. Hamilton he got the seven or eight specimens exhibited when 

 his paper was read at the Society's meeting representing the various 

 extremely rare varietal forms described by Mr. Moore, it would have 

 been fairer." As a matter of fact, as can be readily verified by a 

 reference to the paper in question which was published in the Transac- 

 tions of the Entomological Society of London for 1892, page 247, 

 Mr. de Niceville distinctly states that the " forty-five specimens " (not 

 " seven or eight ") then exhibited were picked " out of a collection of 

 upwards of two hundred caught in the Khasi Hills " and sent to him 

 by the Rev. W. A. Hamilton. 



How in the face of this Colonel Swinhoe can have made the statement 

 above quoted it is difficult to understand, especially as he was 

 present at the time the specimens were handed round and personally 

 made a few remarks about them. Of course the chief reason for 

 exhibiting such a large series was that not only were typical specimens 

 of all the seven named forms represented, but also every possible 

 intergrade. 



Subfamily Satyein^. 

 15. Mycalesis (Virapa) adabisonii, n, sp. (Plate A, Fig. 1, 9.) 



Habitat : Upper Burma. 



Expanse: ^,2-00, $, 2-15 inches. 



Desceiption : Male. UppeesidEj both wings brown with a dark 

 anteciliary line. Foreioing crossed beyond the middle by an indistinct 

 pale band, obsolete below the first median nervule ; the outer portion 

 of the wing paler, with two very faint submarginal brown lines. 

 Hindioing, margin pale with a dark submarginal line. Undeeside, 

 both wings dark brown from the base to beyond the middle, clothed as 

 far as the end of the discoidal cell with ochreous hair-like scales, with 

 a dark anteciliary line. Forewing crossed beyond the middle by a 

 broad lilac-white band, outwardly bordered by a sinuous brown line, 

 beyond which the margin is broadly ochreous, and bears a very faint 



