NOTES ON SOME BUTTERFLIES FROM MANIPUR. 217 



Japho Peak, which is just within the Naga Hills, run up 

 to over 9,000 feet. 

 The parts of Manipur chiefly worked are : — 



(1) Imphal itself and the small low hills in its immediate vicinity. 



(2) Saitu, a village about 20 miles from Imphal, at the 



northern end of the valley and situated on the eastern 

 slopes of the Western Manipur Hills. 



(3) Kabru Peak, 8,400 feet, situated immediately above Saitu 



village. 



(4) The Irang and Lengba Eivers on the Cachar Eoad, Western 



Manipur Hills, about 50 and 60 miles respectively from 

 Imphal. 



(5) The country near Sebong, close to the Burma border on the 



Burma Road, Eastern Manipur Hills, about 64 miles from 

 Imphal. 



(6) Suroi village and Sxiroifui Peak, 9,000 feet, immediately 



above it about 65 miles from Imphal. 



The country worked in the Naga Hills was practically the same as 

 before. 



The hill tops, both in Manipur and in the Naga Hills, are very in- 

 accessible. There are practically no paths leading to them through 

 the dense forest, and the Nagas and Manipuris scarcely ever visit 

 them. It was with the gTeatest difficulty I could induce my Native 

 collectors to go up to them. 



Away in the jungles, 134 miles from the nearest Railway Station, 

 the collector is at some disadvantage in properly determining doubt- 

 ful forms, for want of access to many necessary books of reference 

 and to a good museum. In these notes only those forms have been 

 considered to be new, of which I can find no mention in any of the 

 following books : — 



(1) de Niceville's " Butterflies of India, Burma and Ceylon." 



(2) Bingham's " Butterflies, " Fauna of British India. 



(3) Seitz's "Macrolepidoptera of the World" as far as published. 



(4) Elwes and Edward's " Revision of the Oriential Hesper- 



iidse." 



(5) Rothschild and Jordan's Revision of the Papilios of the 



Eastern Hemisphere. 



Since writing the above, I have spent five days at the Calcutta 

 Museum, and together with Capt. W. H. Evans have compared all 

 doubtful forms with specimens in the late Mr. de Niceville's magni- 

 ficent collection. 



I am indebted to Capt. W. H. Evans for mu.ch valuable assistance 

 in determining many doubtful forms. I am also much indebted to 

 this officer and to the Bombay Natural History Society for helping 

 me with collectors ; but for their generous assistance much of the 

 ground worked would have remained untouched. 



