660 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [DeC. 6, 



Cel^norrhinus SUMITRA. 



Plesioneura stimitra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 787; Elwes, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 463. 



Celcenorrhinus sumitra, de Nicev. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 iv. p. 184 (1889). 



? C. plagifera, de Nice'v. 1. c. p. 182, t. B. 13 $ . 



? C. patula, de Nicev. 1. c. t. B. 4 $ . 



I cannot follow de Niceville in his descriptions of these species. 

 Perhaps what I call C. sumitra is one or other of them ; but he says he 

 knows C. sumitra from the description only. My C. sumitra occurs also 

 in the Naga Hills, and is distinguished from the last by the partially 

 white club and shafts of the antennae, and by the absence of the yellow 

 spot near the base of the fore wing. I have a female from Ber- 

 nardmyo which nearly agrees with the figure of C. patula, but unless 

 I am mistaken these species are more variable than de Niceville 

 supposes. 



Cel^norrhinus pero. 



? C. pero, de Nicev. 1. c. p. 183, t. B. 12 c? • 



This seems a good and distinct species, but I cannot be sure that it 

 is C. pero. I have two fresh males from the Naga Hills and a female 

 which may belong to C. sumitra ; they agree fairly with the plate and 

 better with the description of C.pero ; but some of the points touched 

 on by de Niceville for distinguishing the species seem inconstant, 

 and it is impossible to decide without a large number of specimens 

 from different localities. 



Cel^norrhinus clitus. 



O. clitus, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vol. vi. no. 3 

 (1891), p. 378, t. G. fig. 26 J. 



cS , Above black, with olive hairs at base and on hind margin 

 of fore wing, and longer olive hairs on inner half of hind wing. 

 Spots glassy white on fore wing, bright yellow on hind wing, 

 constant in colour and position as figured in three specimens. Cilia 

 of fore wing and of hind wing as far as second median vein con- 

 colorous with the wings, on the rest of tbe hind wing they are 

 yellow with a trace of brown at the end of the veins. 



Below the same as above. Antennae black, mixed with yellow 

 above. Palpi and breast beneath pale yellow. Thorax clothed with 

 olive hairs. Abdomen black, ringed yellow. 



Expanse 52 mm. 



Described from three specimens taken at Bernardmyo in May by 

 Doherty. 



After what I have just said of the variability of the species of this 

 genus, it may be thought unwise to describe another, but this is so 

 distinct from any in my collection that I have no doubt of its being 

 a good one. The fringes of the hind wings, like those of maculata, 

 from which it differs in its larger size and much longer, more 

 pointed wings, will distinguish it from any Indian species \ 



^ Since this was written I find that the species has been already described 

 by de Niceville, so I adopt his name. 



