1892.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 621 



Karen Hills agree well with the figures referred to. Hewitson's plate 

 of the female is, as de Niceville remarks, quite different. 



With the above came two other females wliich are quite different 

 in colour above, having large orange patches, and agree nearly with 

 Hewitson's plate of P. jphraatica. They are, however, not the same 

 as what I take to be the male otP. phraatica from Tavoy, as figured 

 by Distant, and may be one of those cases of female dimorphism of 

 which we have very similar instances among the Japanese Theclas, 

 where orange and blue females occur at the same time and place. 



It may be, however, that these belong to a different male which 

 Doherty did not take. 



PiTHECOPS HYLAX. 



Pap. hylax, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 526. 

 Pithecops hylax. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 49, t. xxvi. 161. 

 Occurs in the Naga Hills at 3000 ft., but not so commonly as iVeo- 

 pithecops salmora, Butler. 



Pithecops fulgens. 



Pithecops fulgens, Doh. J. A. S. B. vol. Iviii. pt. ii. p. 127, t. x. 

 6 6 ; Butt. Ind. iii. p. 50. 



Occurs commonly at Margharita, but taken nowhere else. A 

 very distinct and pretty species. I have not recognized the female, 

 which is described as wanting the blue of the male. 



Neopithecops zalmoea. 



Pithecops zalmora, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 161 (1869). 

 Neopithecops zalmora, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 53, t. xxvi, 

 162$. 



Sent by Doherty only from the Naga Hills, where it seems common 

 at about 2000 ft. 



Taraka hamada. 



Miletus hamada, Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 361 (1875): Elwes, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, p. 882. 



Taraka hamada, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 5, t. xxvi. 164 $ . 



I am still unable to separate the Indian from the Japanese form, 

 which occurs also in China, though I have seen none from the 

 Indian region without some white on the fore wing, which in Japan 

 is black. Doherty sent it from Margharita, Bernardmyo, and the 

 Naga and Karen Hills, but it seems nowhere common. He describes in 

 MSS. (copied by de Nice'ville on p. 59 of Butt. Ind. vol. iii.) 

 another species, T. mahanetra, from Perak, which by the description 

 seems distinct, but the only specimens taken are said to be lost. 



Megisba malaya. 



Lyccena malaya, Horsf. Cat. E. I. C. p. 70 (1823). 

 Megisba malaya. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 61, t. xxvi. 165 S • 

 Sent from the Naga and Karen Hills. 

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