406 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVII. 



Gates in the Fauna of Britisli India gives the dimensions of the eggs of N. 

 grandis as '9 X "7 and those of the eggs of N. sundara as -93 X 'Tl. The latter 

 is certainly incorrect for it is not likely that the smaller bird would lay eggs 

 larger than those of the larger bird. The average of eleven eggs of N. sundara 

 measure •82x*61 and I have never taken more than three eggs in a clutch 

 though four may be the complete number laid. 



E. A. D'ABREU, f.z.s. 

 Central MtrSEtnvE, Naqpur, 

 21st July 1920, 



No. XV.— THE OCCURRENCE OF TEINOPALPUS I M PERI ALT 8 

 IN THE TOUNGOO HILLS, BURMA. 



I write to enquire whether any specimens of T. imperialis have been recorded 

 from the Toungoo Hills of Burma. 



Bingham in Vol. 2 of his book only records T. imperatrix as having been 

 obtained from there, but I have been given to imderstand that some specimens 

 of Teinopalpus caught at Thandaung near Toungoo some years ago and sent 

 for identification were all classed as imperialis. 



Bingham's description of T. imperatrix shows that the chrome yellow discal 

 fascia does not encroach on the discoidal cell. I have obtained about a dozen 

 specimens of Teinopalpus from Thandamig in the Toungoo hills and seen a large 

 number of other specimens obtained from the same place and about half the 

 specimens had the discal fascia encroaching on the cell although the specimens 

 appeared to be identical in all other respects. The encroachment on the cell 

 being the same as shewn in the illustration of T. imperialis at the end of the 

 volume. The fascia starting from interspace 2 and not from interspace 3 

 as described for T. imperialis. 



These butterflies are most common in April but are also to be had in Than- 

 daung in October and I saw one specimen up in Thandamig in October last year, 

 but could not get close enough to catch it as it settled on a large rock a few 

 feet beyond the reach of my net. Bingham also only describes one specimen 

 of female for each variety. 



Last April I caught 7 specimens in one morning, one of which turned out 

 to be a female and was identical in all respects with the males, except that it 

 was very slightly larger. There was no doubt whatever about the sex as apart 

 from the entire absence of anything resembling the anal valves of the male, 

 she started laying eggs shortly after being caught and was so full of them that 

 I had to clean the body out to preserve it. 



The ordinary females do not appear to be at all common up at Thandaung 

 as in 1918 none appeared to have been seen and last year only three were seen 

 although there was generally someone out after these butterflies nearly every 

 morning and quite a large number of males were caught. 



Ragadia. 



Bingham only records this from Tenasserim in Burma. 



I caught two specimens in Thandamig in October 1919 and which appear 

 to resemble R. critolans, but there are only 6 occeli on the hind wing, there being 

 only two of the median occeli on the hind wing encircled by the same fulvous 

 ring instead of three. 



W. SPARKE. 

 c/o Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Rangoon. 

 3rd April 1920. 



