278 L. de Niceville — New Bntterfies from the Indian Region. [Ko. 4, 



6. EuTHALiA ADIMA, Moore. 

 Adolias adima, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, 

 p. 19-i, n. 392 (1857) ; Euthalia adima, de Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. ii, p. 210, 

 n. 505 (1886). 



When I wrote about this species in " The Butterflies of India," 

 I had seen no specimen of it, but, thanks to Mr. Walter A. Hamilton, 

 I have received a considerable series of males and five females, all taken 

 below^ Shillong in Assam. They shew great variation in the only 

 character which distinguishes the species from E. appiades, Menetries, 

 viz., — the entire absence or more or less prominence of the blue band on 

 the outer margin of the hindwing on the upperside in the male. In 

 some specimens there is not the smallest speckle of blue, in others there 

 are just a few blue scales at the anal angle, in others a considerable pair 

 of patches in each interspace, till the other extreme is reached in which 

 there is an almost continuous band, as in E. appiades, divided only by 

 the veins and internervular folds. The female is indistinguishable from 

 the common form of that sex of E. appiades. I was wrong in the " Butter- 

 flies of India" in saying that E. adima " is apparently nearest allied to 

 E.jahnu, Moore:" superficially a typical male of E. adima is nearer to 

 E. jahnu than it is to E. appiades, the former having no blue coloration on 

 the upperside, but, as will be seen from the above remarks, E. adima is 

 a very variable species in the male, and one extreme of the variability 

 approaches very near indeed to E. appiades, and the females of the two 

 are indistinguishable. Mr. Hamilton tells me that E. appiades does not 

 occur at the spot where he finds E. adima ; the latter may therefore be 

 treated as a local race of E. appiades till the series of gradations between 

 the two species is found to be quite complete ; at present there is a con- 

 siderable gap between my most blue E. adima and E. appiades, though 

 that specimen is really much nearer to E. appiades than it is to typical 

 E. adima. The true E. appiades occurs almost all over Assam and is a 

 very common species. It is a little strange that it should be replaced at 

 the foot of the Shillong hills by so variable a local race. 



Family LYO^NID^. 

 7. Zephtrus doheetii, n. sp., PI. XIV, Figs. 1, d*, 2, ? . 

 Habitat : Western Himalayas. 

 Expanse : cT ?, 1-5 to 1*7 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside, both wings black. Forewing with 

 the black area confined to the costa narrowly, the outer margin broadly 

 and increasingly to the anal angle, and the inner margin narrowly ; the 

 rest of the surface extremely dark iridescent green varying to irides- 

 cent purple according to the play of the light, crossed by the black 



