364 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [JuilC 29, 



Nemeobiin^. 



30. TaXILA EUGENES. 



Dodona euyenes, Bates, Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 371 (1867). 



2, Murree, 10th September, 1885; Thundiani, low down uear 

 Kala Pani, 24th September. 



" Dodona dipcea : uncommon, a few at Murree in August, and 

 two or three below Thundiani in September." — /. W. T. 



Although Hewitsou, in his collection, associated three examples 

 of T. eugenes with his type of T. dipoea, the two species are so well 

 marked that there ought to be no difficulty in distinguishing them. 

 Though rare, T. eugenes is common compared with T. dipcea : it differs 

 most prominently in the pattern of the under surface of the secon- 

 daries ; these wings in T. dipcea are of a dingy grey-brown colour, 

 and the bands across it are very narrow and of a creamy yellowish 

 tint ; the short band between the cell and the apex is bounded 

 internally by three dark brown angular spots, and the anal lobe has 

 no tail ; in fact, strictly speaking, it is a Dodona, whereas T. eugenes 

 is a Taxila '. 



31. Taxila durga. 



MelitcBU durga, KoUar in Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 441, pi. 13. 

 figs. 3, 4 (1848). 



<S $ , Murree, 1 8th, 22nd, and 23rd August ; Dewal, 26th August ; 

 Bugnoter, 20th September, 1885. 



" Common at Murree in August and September ; found along the 

 hills to Thundiani ; also at Dewal." — J. W, T. 



Lyc^nid^. 



32. PaNCHALA ? DODON^A. 



Amhlypodia dodoncea, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Co. Mus. p. 43. 

 n. 65, pi. ]a. fig. 8 (1857). 



cJ, Thundiani, 23rd September, 1885. 



This species in Mr. Kirby's Catalogue is indicated as female of 

 the following ; in our series are both sexes of each species, which are 

 totally different. Major Yerbury's note refers to both. 



33. PaNCHALA? RAMA. 



Thecla rama, Kollar in Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 412, pi. 4. figs. 1, 2 

 (1848). 



5, Dewal near Murree, 26th August, 1885. 



^ Practically, however, the two genera are synonymous, as, in spite of Scudder's 

 ovevsiglit of the following important facts, I shall now show : — In Doubleday's 

 List the following species stand under the then undescribed genus Taxila — 

 T. fatua, ccfcun, erato, cesennia, fylla, drupadi, orphna, esther, echerius, tantalus, 

 neophron. This genus was adopted and described by Westwood in the ' Genera 

 of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' the three italicized species being figured in the same 

 order as above ; and T. orphna (under which name two species are confounded 

 on the plate) is not figured as a Taxila at all, though placed with that genus in 

 the letterpress ; it, moreover, stands last in Mr. Westwood's notes on the genus ; 

 yet Mr. Kirby admits this species alone into the genus Taxila, whilst Scudder 

 admits only T. drupadi, an insect in no way brought prominently forward as 

 typical. 



