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took it in Cherra Punji. " It is not a common species, and we have only seen it 

 from Sikkim, Cackar, and Silhet. Mr. L. de Nic^ville took it in the Valley of the 

 Great Runjit, in Sikhim, in October ; and Mr. Wood-Mason took a single specimen 

 on Nemotha Peak, Cachar, in September" (Butt. Ind. 278). Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc, 1888, 330) records it as " not a common species in the low Valleys of 

 Sikkim up to 3000 feet, between April and December." 



MELYNIAS PATNOIDES (Plate 141, figs. 2, 2a, (J). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing comparatively narrower and more tri- 

 angular in shape than typical Patna, the pale blue streaks somewhat shorter and 

 narrower. Hindiving conspicuously more triangular in shape ; the anterior margin 

 less arched, the exterior margin being almost straight from the apex to anal angle, 

 and less broadly sinuous ; the submargiaal bluish-white spots disposed more linearly 

 in their course. Underside uniformly coloured throughout. Forewing with no trace 

 of the obscure pale transverse strigge (which are always present broadly across the 

 disc in Patna) ; there are also five submarginal prominent small bluish-white spots, 

 two apical and three lower, the lowest being slender and disposed between the 

 median and submedian veinlets. Eindwirig with very prominent bluish-white sub- 

 marginal spots, which, as on upperside, are disposed in a more linear course. 



Expanse, c? 3n) inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



DiSTEiBUTTON. — A single male was taken at Kathapa, in February, by Major 

 C. H. E. Adamson. " Two specimens of the male were also taken by Mr. W. 

 Doherty in the Karen Hills, East Pegu, at 4000 feet elevation in March and April, 

 1890" (H. J. Elwes, P. Z. S. 1891, 270). 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 141, figs. 2, 2a, represent the male 

 from Kathapa, kindly lent for this purpose from Major Adamson's collection. 



Indo-Malatan species op Melynias. — M. Lais (Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 114, 

 figs. A, B (1779). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 62, pi. ix. fig. 2 (1882). Staudinger, 

 Exot. Schmett. p. 237, pi. 86, c? (1887). Habitat. Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; 

 Billiton ; Java ; Borneo ; Siam. — M. Geryx (Boisduval. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi, 9, 

 fig. 8 (1836). Habitat. Java. — M. Casiphone (Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. 

 (1820-26). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 64, pi. vi. fig. 10, c? (1882). Semper, Reise 

 Philippen, Lep. pi. xi. figs. 11, 12, c? ?. Habitat. Singapore; Java; Mindano. 

 —M. Eumara (Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 239 (1857). Habitat. 

 Java. — M. Harterti (Elym. Harterti, Honrath, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 165, pi. 

 2, fig. 3). Allied to M. Peah. Habitat. Malacca. 



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