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the same as Plotz's nala ; perhaps pseudomas&a, But., will turn out to be the 

 correct name for (c). The type of Butler's mcesoides is a poor specimen 

 without antennae from Malacca, and I have a note that the spots on the 

 hindwing are separated by brown veins. Thus it will be seen that the 

 nomenclature of the dava group requires a good deal of clearing up. 



(e) Lastly, 1 have a single male caught by me in the Palni Hills at 

 5,000 feet in September 1909, which at the time I thought might turn out 

 to be a difi'erent species to any I had caught before. The genitalia are 

 very distinct ; the clasp is more or less evenly rounded at the apex, some- 

 what like the clasp of satra ; the apex of the tegumen is broad and deeply 

 excavated in the middle. The insect resembles a rather large dara or 

 mcesoides ; the markings on the forewing are much smaller than usual, 

 rather like those in a female of mcesoides ; on the hindwing the orange band 

 is not divided by brown veins and there is no spot at the end of the cell ; 

 below the hindwing except at the dorsum is washed over with greenish 

 yellow of an unusual shade. Apart from the genitalia the differences are 

 small and I rather hesitate from inventing a name for the insect ; how- 

 ever in case more are ever discovered, ^aZm« will do. 



(63) Halpe. Species without male brands, i.e., astigmata, Swin., masoni, 

 M., and lionovei, DeN., are placed in a new genus Thoressa. Egena, Fd., is 

 given under the name brunnea M. Separata, M., and hnyvetti, El. and Ed. are 

 not, I think, mentioned. Oniata, Fd., is sunk as a synonym of Fithauria 

 marsena, Hew. Burmana is described as a new species from Ataran, said 

 to very like homolea. Hew., but possessing a double spot in the cell ; Mr. 

 Ellis has sent me several specimens of a Halpe from Arakan Yoma and the 

 North Shan States, which I have come to the conclusion are probably 

 burmana. 



(64) Iton adamsoni is described as a new species from Chindwin ; the 

 female is said to be suffused green blue on the underside. 



(65) Parnara is separated into four genera ; Baoris for oceia. Hew., 

 Caltoris iov humara, M., and its allies; Chapra for mathias. Fab., etc. ; 

 Parnara ior guttatus, Br. and Gr., etc. 



(66) Parnara oceia, Hew. Dr. Chapman has dissected 14 specimens and 

 finds that there are four species under the name oceia, viz., oceia, confined to 

 the Philippines ; leechi, EL, confined to China ; farri, M., the common Indian 

 species ; unicolov, M., from Sikkim and Assam, a species with no markings 

 on the forewing. 



(67) Parnara onchisa, Swin., is given as a distinct species ; Elwes and 

 Edwards placed the male as = austeni, M., and the female = moolata, M. 



(68) Parnara uma, DeN., is said to be nearer Fithauriopsis than Farnara. 



(69) Parnara toona, Wl., is given as contigua, Mab. 



(70) Parnara matliias. Fab., midea, Walker, is the desert form from 

 Turkey to Sind and Cutch. Subochracea, M., is given as a separate species. 



(71) Parnara prominens, Wl., is given as sinensis, Mab. 



(72) Parnara vail(a, Plotz. (== fUlotas, DeN.,) and/e.a7zs, Swin., are given 

 as separate species ; they are almost certainly dwarfed forms of hada, M., 

 and colaca, M., respectively, as is robsonii, DeN. of gremius, Fab. 



(73) Gegenes nostrodamus, Fab., is given from Attock, Chitral and Kulu, 

 and karsana, M., as a separate species from Baluchistan, Sind, Bombay and 

 Kumaon ; karsana is probably the prevailing form in the desert regions and 

 the dry season form elsewhere. 



The following notes are taken from the appendix to Lepidoptera Indica : — 



(74) Danais eryx maghaba, Fruh., Sikkim is really from Formosa. 



(75) Epinephele wagneri mandane, Koil., Swinhoe records one pair from 

 Quetta. 



