624 MR. H.J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [DcC. 6 



Talicada NYSEUS. 



Polyommatus ni/seus, Guerin, Delessert's Souv. d'un Voy. dans 

 rinde, p. 78, t. xxii. figs. 1, 1 a (1843). 



Talicada mjseus. Butt, Ind. iii. p. 135, t. xxvi. fig. 179 $ . 

 Common at low elevations in the Naga Hills. 



Everes argiades. 



Papilio argiades, Pallas, Reise, vol. i. App. p. 472 (1771). 



Everes argiades. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 137, t, xxvi. fig. 180 J. 



Small dark specimens from the Naga Hills, where the tails usually 

 found in this species seem to be wanting. A large and brilliantly 

 coloured pair from Perak, which I should call parrhasius if I knew 

 how to define that variety or species, which represents E. argiades 

 in the tropical parts of India. 



Everes kala. 



Everes Jcala, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. iii. p. 139, t. xxvi. fig. IS I . 



Three males and a female of this from the Naga Hills at 5500 feet 

 agree withde Niceville's plate ; thetype came from the Khasia Hills. 

 It is perfectly distinct from Lyccena fischeri by the much darker 

 colour and more distinct spots of the underside, and even more so 

 from the form or species which occurs in China, and which has 

 been referred to L. fischeri by Leech, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 455. 



Of this latter I have three males and two females from Ningpo, 

 and one male from Kiukiang ; one of the females bears a label in 

 the late Mr. Pryer's writing, " L.filicaudis, Ningpo," but this name 

 is, I think, a MS. one only. All of these agree in having two ad- 

 ditional spots on the fore wing below near the base, which I do not 

 find in any of my 13 specimens of L. fischeri, which come from 

 Orenburg, Amurland, Askold, the Alatau mountains, Corea, and 

 Shanghai ; but I have one male from Staudinger, marked West 

 Siberia, which has them ; therefore I do not know at present whether 

 to treat L.filicaudis as a local race of L. fischeri or not. 



Everes umbriel. 



Everes umbriel, Doh. J. A. S. B. 1889, pt. ii. p. 433, t. xxiii. 

 1 d (issued Dec. 30, fide de Niceville). 



Six specimens of this interesting species from the Karen Hills at 

 about 4500 feet elevation. I cannot be certain, but think that two 

 of them are females, in which case there is no difference in colour 

 or markings between the sexes. I cannot distinguish the species 

 from Lyccena potanini, Alph. Mem. sur les Lep. v. p. 104, t. v. 

 fig. 4, described from Mongolia, and of which I have four specimens 

 taken in the province of Szechuen by Pratt. It is doubtful which 

 name has priority, but I think that the fifth volume of the * Menioires ' 

 was not issued till 1890. 



