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18. Plastingia tytleri, n. sp. Above dark brown, unspotted ; cilia at the 

 anal angle of the hindwing elongated and orange coloured, this colour 

 extending but slightly on to the wing , streaks of yellow hair on the middle 

 of the inner margin of the forewing and on the hindwing along the inner 

 margin from the base to well beyond the middle, at the base of the cell 

 and two small streaks on the disc beyond the cell. Cilia concolorous 

 except at the anal angle. Below the entire hindwing, the apex of the fore- 

 wing broadly and the costa narrowly ochreous yellow ; the remainder of 

 the forewing black ; on the disc of the hindwing there are some obscure 

 darker patches. Expanse 30 mm. 



Vein 5 of the hindwing is much bent down at the origin and the antennae 

 are very long ; thus the insect falls in Pirdana or Plastingia, two closely 

 allied genera. Though in appearance more like a Pirdana, it agrees in the 

 shape of the wing with Plastingia, the outer margin being short and the 

 hindwing produced, rather as in latoia, Hew. Above the insect resembles 

 Pirdana hyela. Hew., but the blue colour is lacking ; below, except for the 

 spots it is like Scobura cephala. Hew. There is a likeness also to a small 

 Ismene, but the palpi are quite different. 



Described from a single specimen in Col. Tytler's collection and obtained 

 by him at Sebong, Manipur, in March 1914. 



14. Orthopsetus mackwoodi, n. sp. Mr. Mackwood recently sent me to 

 identify several butterflies caught by him in Burma. Amongst them was a 

 large skipper resembling so far as I know no known species. I was not able 

 to set it and so close examination was impossible ; it agrees best with 

 Orthopcetus lalita, Doh, especially as regards shape and size, though quite 

 different in appearance. It is very dark brown above with a yellow frons. 

 There is a large hyaline white spot just before the end of the cell of the 

 forewing and a spot on the costa above it, the latter being placed rather 

 aearer to the base. There are no other markings and the underside is 

 exactly similar to the upperside. It differs so from any other species 

 that there would be no difficulty in recognising it, if caught again. It was 

 captured at Anisakan, near Maymyo, on March 24th, 1914. 



15. Occurrence of Mandarinia regalis, Leech, in Burma. Mr. E. V. Ellis, 

 D. C. Forests, obtained about a dozen of this interesting species in the 

 Northern Shan States in April 1914. The butterfly is the size of a rather 

 large Mydesis, say nicotia, Hew. ; the male is black above, shot a beautiful 

 dark blue in certain lights ; the forewing is crossed by a curved discal band 

 of bright cyaneous blue ; below the ground colour is dull black and there 

 are the usual ocelli, with obsolete irides and bordered by silvery lines. 

 The female differs in that the band is narrower and the hindwing is not 

 shot with blue. In the male the dorsum of the forewing is highly convex 

 and there is a brush, etc., on the hindwing as in most species of Mycalesis. 

 Mandarinia differs from Mycalesis in that none of the veins on the fore- 

 wing are swollen at the base. 



M. regalis is the only known species in the genus and was described 

 by Leech in 1889 from West and Central China, where it is said to be 

 " local, not plentiful." Fruhstorfer in 1906 described baronesa as a local 

 race from Tonkin, differing in having the band on the forewing narrower. 

 The Shan States form agrees with baronesa as regards the width of the 

 band, but in Seitz's Macrolepidoptera this race is depicted with the band 

 continued on to the hindwing ; if this latter feature is a mistake, no men- 

 tion being made of it in the text, then the Indian form should stand as 

 baronesa . 



Mr. EUis is to be congratulated on discovering this interesting addition 

 to the Indian fauna. 



16. Arhopalaellisi, n. sp. During July 1912 Mr. Ellis obtained a long 



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