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We have no hesitation in treating taylorii as a synonym, as we have Nilgiri specimens 

 which agree with it precisely. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Nilgiri hills (Hampson) ; N. Canara (Aitken) ; Travancore, Orissa 

 {fide de Niceville) ; Khasia hills (Hamilton). 



! Capeona saeata. (Plate XVIII. fig. 20, <j ; Plate XXIII. figs. 21, 21 a.) 

 "? Abaratha saraya, Doherty, Jour. As. Soc. Beug. 1886, p. 138. 



The C. saraya of this paper is the same as that of the British Museum collection, 

 where there are three specimens thus named, which had been originally labelled on 

 the pin taylorii, de Nicev. These specimens all come from " Futeh Khan's Bungalow, 

 Kootur, Chittarpahar : probably 3000 feet." 



It is, however, doubtful if they are correctly identified ; because, according to the 

 original description, the hind wing below in 0. saraya has " a black transverse streak 

 at the end of the cell, a fainter one near the base of the cell, and a circle of large and 

 conspicuous black spots, nine in all, round the disc, whereof two are between the costal 

 and the subcostal, and two between the median and submedian veins." G. saraya was 

 described from a single male. 



Had. Kumaon, 3500 feet (Doherty). 



! Capeona alida. 

 Abaratha alida, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 394, pi. Gr. fig. 40, s • 



Fore wing with a small round white transparent spot about the middle of the 

 discoidal cell. " Underside : both wings thickly overlaid with large pure white scales, 

 so that the dark ground-colour is entirely hidden except narrowly along the outer 

 margins, the whole wing surface having the appearance of being thickly strewn with 

 hoar-frost." 



Very similar in appearance to C. ransonnettii, but the latter wants the hyaline spot 

 near the middle of the cell of the fore wing. 



Rah. Tilin Yaw, Upper Burmah ( Watson) ; Upper Chindwin River (Adamson). 



! Capeona steichthus. 



Pterygospidea syrichthus, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep. vol. iii. p. 530, pi. lxxii. figs. 22, 23 (1867"). 



Abaratha syrichthus, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 656, pi. xliii. fig. 2, var. ? 



Pyrgus agama, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 249, pi. vii. figs. 1 (larva), 1 a (pupa) 



(1857). 

 Coprona elwesi, Wats, in litt. 



The specimens from Bernardmyo, which Elwes figured as a variety of C. syrichthus, 

 are remarkable for their small size ; the smallest expands only 28 mm. As, however, 

 there is no difference in the genitalia, we consider that the name of C. elwesi given by 

 Watson to this form cannot stand. 



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