364 Wood-Mason & de Nic^ville— On tho RJiopaloceroua [No. 4, 



"106. Charaxes (Haridra) hindia. 



0. hindia, Butler, Lep. Ex., p. 99, n. 5, pi. xxxvii, fig. 5, male and female (1872). 



Nine males between 14th June and 20th August in forest around 

 Silcuri. The J differ considerably from one another, no two being ex- 

 actly alike ; nor does any one of them agree minutely with Mr. Butler's 

 figure of this species. 



Family Lemoiiiidse. 



Subfamily NemeobiinJ). 



107. Zemeros phlegtas. 



Papiliofiegyas, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iii, pi. cclxxx, fig3. E, F (1780). 



Fifteen specimens of both sexes obtained in the forests around 

 Silcuri between 20th May and 8th August. 



Family Lycsenidse. 



108. PatHALIA ? MALAYA. 

 Lyc(^na malaya, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 70, n. 4 (1828). 



One male, Irangmara, 18th July. This specimen possesses tails, 

 going therefore into Mr. Moore's genus Pathalia ; and it is entirely black 

 on the upperside. A complete gradation can be made from this black 

 form to one with the white area on the upperside of both wings more 

 extensive than the black ground-colour, which latter form has been 

 described by Mr. Moore as P. alhidisca. In Mr. Moore's genus Megisha, 

 which has no tails, the same variation occurs : M. thwaitesi from Ceylon 

 has a small patch of white on the upperside of the forewing only, M. 

 sihhima is entirely black, but there are other specimens from Sikkim 

 which have the white area above of greater extent than the black. The 

 type of M. sihhima is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and has tails ; 

 so perhaps Mr. Moore does not consider the presence or absence of the 

 tails to be of generic consequence. He has also named for the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, some Andaman specimens of this group with tails 

 " Megisha thwaitesi," still further showing that he considers the tails of 

 no importance. In this we quite agree with him, but would carry the 

 matter still farther and treat Pathalia malaija, P. alhidisca, Megisha 

 thwaitesi, and M. sihhima as one variable tailed or tailless species. 



109. CURETIS ? SARONIS. 

 C. saronis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 587. 



Ten males, 9th June to 13th August, and three females, 30th May 

 to 17th July, in forests around Silcuri. In both sexes, they agree more 



