108 L. de Niceville — Species of the genus Eurytela. [June, 



be doing something. District officers and others can search for mami- 



Bcripts and copper plates, and the more important of the former which 



are known might be copied.* If a smnll 



» I have just heard of some grant of Rs. 500 a year could be allotted 

 mannscripts in Sibsagar which will . ^ ., ., i-i t xi,- i 



probably prove very interesting. for two or three years, it would, I think, 



suffice to enable us to get photographs, 



and rubbings of the inscriptions referred to in paragraph IG (8), and 



to obtnin copies and translations of such historical and g'?^a.si-historical 



writings as are already known to exist, excluding those in Munipur, for 



the copying and translating of which the State might fairly be called 



upon to provide the necessary funds. It would also leave a margin for 



the purchase of the coins referred to in paragraph 16(1) (3) and (4?) 



whenever any new ones are brought to light, and if any money should 



stiil remain avnilable, it might profitably be spent in the gradual 



exploitation of the old ruins of palaces, forts, and temples which are 



scattered all over the province. In the meantime, enquiries could be 



carried on by the district staff and other persons interested into the 



different sources of information indicated in this Note, and we should 



thus be able to know, by the time the copyinor and translating of 



Ahom. puthis hsiS come to an end, in what directions it would be best 



to continue our operations with a view to rescuing from oblivion the 



past history of the province. 



E. A. GAIT. 



Shillong, 



The 6th September, 1894 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Note on the Oriental Species of the rhopalocerous genus Ecjrttela, 

 Boisduval.—By Lionel de Nioe'ville, Esq., F. E. S., C. M. Z. S., &c. 



In 1869, Dr. A. R. Wallace in his " Notes on Eastern Butterflies "* 

 enumerated two species of the genus Eurytela, Boisduval, as occurring 

 in the East, E. castelnaici, Felder, from the Malay Peninsula (Singapore), 

 and Borneo, and E. horsfieldii, Boisduval, from Java. No new oriental 

 species have since been described, but the known habitat of these two 

 species has been greatly extended since then. I find on a close examina- 

 tion of my large series of specimens of the genus, that they can be split 

 up considerably into distinct species ; these I briefly characterise below. 

 I have not thought it necessary to figure the nevv^ species from India, 

 as Mr. F. Moore will shortly deal with them in his " Lepidoptera 

 Indica," vol. ii. E. fruhstorferii, however, from Java, will be more fully 

 described and figured elsewhere hereafter. 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 331. 



