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The feinale is very similar to the inale on the upperside, but the outer 

 pale area on forewing is much paler and almost white ; the hastate 

 markings on both wings are heavier, approaching the type in this respect. 



Underside : Both wings ; markings similar to the male, but the ground 

 colour 18 greenish as in >S'. sujfusa § . Mr. de Niceville in his original 

 description states : " In true >S'. hoivqua and its nam.ed variety the outer 

 discal line and the submargin^l band on both wings are half the distance 

 apart that they are in S. sparta, and they have six and sometimes seven 

 ocelli on the forewing, while S. sparta has only five." 



Mr. South describes a form of S. Jiowqua (J. B. N. H. Soc, Vol. XXII, 

 p. 352), taken by Captain Bailey in the Mishmi Hills, as being intermediate 

 between typical examples (?) from India (as far as I know the type of 

 Sparta has hitherto been unique) and var. suffusa, Leech, from Western 

 China. 



Captain Porter has sent me a single male of a form of Sticophthalma 

 taken by him on the Dihang River, Abor Hills, in July, which is identical in 

 all respects with Manipur specimens. The Dihang River is not so very 

 far from where Captain Bailey obtained his specimen on the Lohit River 

 in the Mishmi Hills, and therefore it is highly probable that the two speci- 

 mens belong to the same race. If this is so, the form described by Mr. South 

 must be identical with specimens from Manipur, which are undoubtedly 

 S. sparta ; for it is highly improbable that tivo closely allied forms of a 

 Sticophthalma should be found in Manipur. ^S". sparta appears to be closely 

 allied to S, louisa and will probably prove to be a northern race of that 

 species and not a race of S. howqua as considered by some authors. 



^MONA AMATHTJSIA, Hewitson. 



Not uncommon in Manipur where many specimens of both sexes were 

 taken in May and June and again in September and October at Saitu 

 at the northern end of the Manipur Valley at about 4,000 feet, and on the 

 Burma Road near Sebong. The butterfly, although not rare, appears to be 

 extremely local and is found in dense shady nullahs. There are two 

 broods in the year emerging in May and September, which do not differ 

 from one another, ^mona pealii, Wood-mason, cannot, therefore, be the 

 wet-season form of amathusia as considered by some authors. It may be 

 a casual variety or a local race confined to the northern end of the Naga 

 Hills. Sibsagar, the locality given for it, is an extremely unlikely place for 

 it to be found, as it is in the plains. ^. pealii was probably taken in the 

 Naga Hills which adjoins the Sibsagar District. 



Enispe euthymius, Doubleday. 



There are three well-marked forms of this species occurring in Manipur 

 and the Naga Hills. 



(1) Typical euthymius of which four specimens were obtained on the 

 Lengba and Irang Rivers in the Western Manipur Hills ; three males in 

 April and one in July, i.e., in both the dry and loet seasons. 



(2) Variety tessellata, Moore, of which three males were taken at Nichu- 

 guard, Naga Hills, in March and April, and many males and five females 

 near Sebong on the Burma Road, Manipur, from March to July and again 

 in November, i.e., during both dry and wet seasons. 



(3) A very dark form, which I propose calling melcena, of which I obtained 

 two males at Nichuguard in the Naga Hills in June and October and two 

 males on the Lengba River, Manipur, in March and April, i.e., in both the 

 dry and icet seasons. The above three forms are very distinct, and none of 

 the specimens before me intergrade. 



