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Pamphila zebra, Mabille, sec. spec. comm. 



? Pamphila sunias, Felder, Sitzb. Ak. V\ r iss., Math.-nat. CI. xl. p. 462, sep. p. 15 (1860). 



This species varies much, in size, in the ground-colour of the hind wing below, 

 and in the size of the spots which form the pale markings on the upperside. The pale 

 spot in cell 6 on the hind wing below is absent or but feebly developed in certain males 

 from Pulo Laut, Nias, Java, and Perak ; in females from Pulo Laut and Nias, otherwise 

 similar to the males last mentioned, this spot is present, but a female from Perak 

 exactly resembles males from the same locality in wanting that spot. 



This species seems to have a wider range and to be more generally abundant than 

 any other Eastern Hesperid. 



Elwes's collection contains forty-six males and thirty-six females from almost every 

 part of tropical Asia, including Japan. Edwards has examined the genitalia of no 

 less than fifteen specimens from various localities and finds considerable variation 

 in degree, but no differences which can be treated as specific. 



The five specimens now standing in the Eelder collection as " Pamphila sunias" 

 clearly do not belong to the species described by Felder under that name, for he says 

 of the hind wing below " atomis nigris fasciam cingentibus." Of the specimens in 

 question four are labelled " Amboina" and one, a male, " Amboina, Boleschall." The 

 latter agrees exactly with a specimen from Celebes sent by Dr. Staudinger as Pamphila 

 prnsias, Felder ; the other three males are only distinguishable from the specimen last 

 mentioned by the narrower pale band on the fore wing above (the pale spot in cell 2 

 reaches to about the half length of vein 2) ; the remaining specimen, a female, appears 

 to be properly associated with the narrow-banded males, as the band on the fore wing 

 above is not so wide as one would expect to find in the female of T. prusias having 

 regard to the width of it in the male of that species. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya (Young); Sikkim (Moller, Elwes) ; Khasias (Ehves) ; Nagas, 

 E. Pegu, Perak, Pulo Laut, Sambawa, Arjuno, Java, Bali (Boherty) ; Ceylon (Mackwood) ; 

 Nias (Modigliani) ; Hong Kong (Pryer) ; Andamans (de Roepstorff) ; Java (Piepers) ; 

 Philippines (Semper); Kina Balu (Waterstradt) ; Japan (Pryer); C. China (Pratt). 



ITelicota dilutior, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 21, 6 .) 



d 2 ■ Differs from dara, Koll., in the following points : — Pale markings of the 

 tipperside of a cream- or straw-yellow, the spots of which they are composed reduced 

 in size ; ground-colour of the hind wing below dark yellowish green, owing to the sparse 

 clothing of yellow scales on the black parts. 



Expanse 30-31 mm. 



This species seems constantly different from any form of dara. 



Described from several specimens, including three males and three females, from 

 Pulo Laut (Boherty). Types in coll. Elwes. 



Hab. Pulo Laut, Labuan, Kina Balu, Borneo (Waterstradt) ; N. Borneo (Everett). 



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