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insect described and figured by de Niceville." I do not know why 

 Colonel Swinhoe in one sentence refers to the Godrnan and Salvin 

 female in both the past and present tenses. But I am quite sure that 

 I have correctly sexed the species. Mr. W. Doherty has recorded 

 the following note 'on this butterfly* : — " The undescribed female of 

 this species appears to be dimorphic, one form resembling the male, and 

 the other the female, of Euplcea midamus, Linnaeus (Unnceij Moore)." 

 It is probable that the Godman and Salvin female is the one which 

 resembles the male, while the specimen I described and figured is the 

 more aberrant form which mimics the female Euplcea. I observe, 

 however, that on November 7th, 1894, Colonel Swinhoe (as recorded 

 in the Proceedings) exhibited at the Entomological Society of London 

 a female of P. telearchus from Cherra Punji. As he refers to the 

 specimen I figured and described in speaking of his own example, it 

 seems probable that he now admits that my identification is correct. I 

 possess another female example taken at Fort Langleh on 29th 

 September, 1890. P. butleri, Janson, from the Malay Peninsula and 

 N.-E. Sumatra, which is a local race of P. telearchus, is also dimor- 

 phic in Sumatra, one of these forms of the female from the Malay 

 Peninsula is figured by Mr. Distant in Rhop. Malay., pi. xxvii, 

 ficr. 6, which mimics a brown Euplcea, while that form and one 

 mimicking the female of the local race of Euplcea midamus occurring 

 in Sumatra is also found in that island. It is not known if both these 

 dimorphic female forms occur also in the Malay Peninsula, but it ia 

 highly probable that they do. 



P. danisepa is a beautiful mimic, except as regards its much 

 superior size, of Euplcea (Danisepa) diocletianus, Fabricius, which 

 occurs with it. The male is very rare ; I possess five specimens only. 

 The female here described is probably the first ever obtained, and I 

 am greatly indebted to Lieut. James M. Burn, E. E., for the gift of 

 the specimen, which he obtained last March at Mawhun, 3,000 feet 

 elevation, in the Katha District of Upper Burma. The female of the 

 parent form, P. caunus^ Westwood, has already been described f by the 

 late Herr Eduard G. Honrath, who also remarks on the extraordinary 



* Journ. A. S. B., vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. 130 (1S89). 

 f Berliner Eut. Zeitscb., vol. xxxvi,p. x (1891). 



