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being black and crimson is pure crimson. The black gorget is much 

 restricted compared with that of kuseri. The other species described is 

 Trafjopan blythi molesworthi, which differs from the typical blytlii in being 

 much darker above, the red on the breast being more confined and the 

 whole underside much paler. Both these specimens were collected by 

 Capt. Molesworth on the borders of Tibet and the N.-E. frontier and pre- 

 sented to the Society. 



No. XIX.— OCCURRENCE OF NAIA BUNGARUS (Schleg) 

 IN THE PUNJAB. 



According to Dr. J. Ewart in the "Poisonous Snakes of India" (1878), the 

 king cobra therein described as Ojyliiophagus elaps has three varieties 

 which he says are distributed as follows: "The first variety (the olive- 

 green one) is found in Bengal, Assam, the Malayan Peninsula and Southern 

 India {Fayrer); the second (brownish-olive) in Bengal (Fai/rer) in the 

 Philippine Islands and perhaps in Burma {Gunther) ; and the third 

 (uniform brownish-black) is found in Borneo {Fayrer). W. Theobald in 

 the "Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India" (1876), 

 describes it as Naja elaps, and says " that it inhabits India, Burmah and the 

 Tenasserim Provinces." Dr. Boulenger in the "Fauna of British India, 

 ReptiHa and Batrachia " (1890), says that it inhabits " Southern India, 

 Orissa, Bengal, Assam, Burma, the Andamans, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, 

 Java, Borneo, Sumatra and Philippines." While Major Wall in " The 

 Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of our British Indian Dominions" (1913), gives, 

 the distribution as " it is found throughout our Indian dominions (with the 

 exception of Ceylon and I believe Western Rajputana, Sind, and the Pun- 

 jab (?) ; in suitable localities, that is in jungles or their vicinity. It occurs 

 in hilly regions up-to an altitude of 7,000 feet and in the plains in their 

 vicinity." The query mark after Punjab indicates that Major Wall is 

 rather doubtful as to the occurrence of the hamadryad or king-cobra in the 

 Punjab. Recently, however, I obtained a specimen from the forest on the 

 banks of the River Ravi near Lahore. Also there is a specimen in the 

 museum of the Government College, though no locality is given as to where 

 the specimen was taken. The form thus apparently occurs in the Punjab, 



BAINI PARSHAD, b. sc, 

 Alfred Patiala Research Student. 



Zoological Laboratory, Government 



College, Lahore, 8iA October 1914, 



No. XX.— A NEW PENTHEMA FROM BURMA. 

 ( With a plate.) 

 Among other butterflies caught by me in the Tharrawaddy District of 

 Lower Burma is a Penthema, allied to darlisa M., but unlike any form 

 hitherto described. The differences between it and darlisa seem greater 

 than those between darlisa and lisarda, Db., and if these forms represent 

 two distinct species the new one should represent a third, I propose to 

 call this new form yoma. 

 Penthema yoma nov, sp. 



Description. — Upperside of forewing differs from darlisa chiefly in that 



the straw coloured streak in interspace \a is absent, or only just indicated 



at the posterior angle. Further, the spot in interspace 4, of the post 



discal series is considerably out of line with the rest. This character is 



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