JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 



No. III.— 1892, 



I. — Note on the Indian Butterflies comprised in the subgenus Pademma of 

 the genus Euplcea: — By Lionel be Nice'ville, F. E. S., C. M. Z. S. 



[Received August 15th ; — Read November 2nd, 1892.] 



In the August Proceedings of the Society, p. 158 will be found a note 

 on the subgenus Stictoplwa, mainly based on material received from the 

 Rev. Walter A. Hamilton and collected in the Khasi Hills. The present 

 note owes its origin to the same source, over 200 specimens of Pademma 

 having been sent to me from that region by Mr. Hamilton. The sub- 

 genus Pademma occurs in Ceylon, South India, Bengal as far west as 

 Maldah, the lower slopes of the Sikkini hills, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, the 

 Malay Peninsula, Siam, Cochin China, Nias Island, and Hainan. Its head- 

 quarters appears to be Assam and Burma (especially the former), where 

 it may be said to swarm ; everywhere else it is comparatively rare, except 

 perhaps in Calcutta, where E. hollari, Felder, may be met with in con- 

 siderable numbers if looked for in the right places and at the right 

 seasons of the year. 



The subgenus as represented in Ceylon, South India, Orissa, Bengal 



(usually), and in parts of Burma and in the Malay Peninsula, presents 



the curious phenomenon that the several species are in both sexes 



entirely, or but slightly, on the upperside of the wings, more especially 



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