128 W. Dotierty — A List of Butterflies tahen in Kumaon. [Ko. 2, 



139. Pratapa deva, Moore. Kapkot, 4,000 feet, a female. It re- 

 sembles a specimen from Sikkim in the Indian Museum, being much 

 darker than those from Kanara and the plains of Bengal, the blue on the 

 forewing covering only the lower half of the base of the cell, paler 

 blue from the hind margin to just above the middle median, broken 

 by black veins, the margin broad and black. Hind wing bluish as 

 in deva^ but powdered with gray scales, and interrupted by black veins, 

 and by a submarginal line of joined dark lunules, the costal border 

 widely dark. Owing to my ignorance of the male, I am unwilling to 

 describe the species as new. 



140. Remelana tajna, n. sp. Allied to megishia, Hewitson. 

 Black, the upper part of the hindiving glittering azure from the first 

 subcostal to the radial, extending beyond into the cell (slightly), and 

 almost to the costal and the upper median veins, but not approach- 

 ing the apex or the costa. Anal lobe gray, touched with fulvous and 

 bluish, a slender marginal bluish line on the lower part of the hind- 

 wing, cilia dark. Below rufous-brown, darker at apex. On the hi^id- 

 wing a slender transverse line of fulvous crosses the wing, almost 

 straight to the lower median, bordered outwardly with slender lines 

 of black and white, continued by similar lines at right angles with it 

 from the lower median to the abdominal margin. On the forewing 

 the line is chiefly white (the fulvous and black being obsolescent), 

 slender, and sinuous, extending from the submedian almost to the costa. 

 A broken submarginal darker line obscurely visible on both wings. 

 Lower part of hindwing with a large area of gray extending to the 

 upper median, bordered outwardly with white and black lines, part of 

 abdominal margin white. Anal black spot partly bordered with fulvous 

 and silvery lilac, h> submarginal black-centred fulvous spot between the 

 lower medians. Tails black, tipped with white, the outer more slender 

 than the inner, and somewhat shorter. Antennae black annulated with 

 white, club black. Expanse 1^ inch. 



Differs from megishia, Hewitson, habitat unknown, in the ground 

 colour of the underside, which is dull rufous-brown, that of Hewitson's 

 species being orange (in his description) or orange-yellow (in his plate). 



Two males, Garjiaghat and Baghrihat, on the Kali, 2,500 — 3,000 

 feet. 



141. Chliaria kina, Hewitson. Loharkhet, N. W. Kumaon, 5,000 

 feet. Male, forewing widely black over the apex, costa, and outer 

 margin to the lower angle ; a large whitish discal patch (greenish or 

 bluish in different lights, just entering the cell and extending from the 

 submedian to the upper median, and obscurely along the median 

 basally and the submedian discally) set in the middle of an area of 



