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been so well described from a botanical point of view by Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke, F.R.S., in the ' Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany,' 

 vol. xxii. 1886, p. 128, that I need not say much about them here; 

 but I extract from Mr. Doherty's letters some details of interest. 

 He says, writing from Mao, Manipur, on September 9th, 1889 : — 

 " I have not marked the altitudes exactly, as we ascend 2000 feet 

 nearly every day, and I know the exact elevation only of those I 

 catch myself. Euplcea midamus ranges up to 6500 feet and is the 

 only Euploea found above 4000 feet. Limenitis austenia is confined 

 to the low country. L. dudu is rather common, much more so than 

 zuleima ; these species approximate to Parthenos {auste7iia is almost 

 a Parthenos in structure) and are easy to catch. The numerous 

 Celebesian species belong to that part of the genus nearest Athyma, 

 Moduza, and Pandita, and are hard to catch : one characteristic of 

 what I call the Nymphalidse {i. e. the Neptis-Euthulia-Limenitis 

 group) is the entire absence of true genera; the structure is plastic, 

 and one type melts insensibly into another. Besides Euthalia nara 

 I send a female near it, but perhaps different {E. anyte $ ), and 

 also what seems a new species, a local form of E. anyte, apparently 

 quite distinct. Libytliea roJiini occurs only below 3000 feet. 

 Nearly all the Darjiliug Erycinidae have turned up here, as well as 

 several specimens of my hitherto unique Everes kala, which is 

 distinct from the Tenasserim species, E. umbriel, Doh. I also 

 send Everes nyseus and parrlmsius. Here the latter has the tails 

 rudimentary or absent. Among Ilerdce I send /. epicles, which 

 occurs from the plains to 6000 feet, androcles from 6000-9000 

 feet, brahma 4500-.5500feet, tamu 4500-8500 feet. /, andrudes is 

 variable, the green hind wing almost disappears in some, and when 

 flying they have the air of obscure black Butterflies. I send a 

 large set of Bercas walUchii, which is curiously like Gonepteryx 

 saneeka of the North-west. It flew in June and disappeared in 

 July. Leptocircus is very common in Assam, ranging up to 6000 

 feet [I found it in the Khasias only at low elevations in very hot 

 dense forests. — H. J. E.]. I took it on the Dibong north of 

 Sadiya, probably the northern limit of the genus. 



" Of Teinopalpus I send a broken male ; your account of its habits 

 agrees exactly with what I have seen of it up here. I send a 

 battered specimen of Papilio krislma, so all the four species of 

 green Papilios {kriskna, parts, ffaneesa, and arcturus) are found here, 

 but are provokingly rare. P. evan occurs at Margharita, but I have 

 seen none here, though P. gyas is not uncommon. I send a fine 

 female of P. rhetenor, also a single female of Aulocera loJia, from 

 an elevation of 5500 feet in Northern Manipur. 



"The Armandias sent seem to be slightly difi'erent from the 

 Bhutan form. [The only difference I see is that they average 

 smaller. — H. J. E.] It first turned up about August lOtli, in the 

 beautiful uninhabited Ziilla valley, the border country between the 

 Angami tribe and the Kachla Nagas, 10 to 15 miles from Kenoma, 

 in the direction of Khonoma. It generally kept to the ridges, 

 occasionally descending into the valley, once almost down to 5000 



