1895.] L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin— Butterflies of Sumatra. 477 



appears to represent this species. It occurs also in Celebes and Amboina, 

 the allied H. tharrytas, Felder, being fouud in the Philippines. 



465. Chliaria tora, Kheil. 



C. tora, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. ix, p. 311, n. 31, pi. P, 

 fig. 43, female (1895). 



Originally described from Nias ; occurs also in the Malay Penin- 

 sula in Perak, in Sumatra at Selesseh and Bekantschan, and in Borneo. 

 It flies in every month in the year in Sumatra; the males are found 

 with different species of Nacaduba, &c, on wet spots on roads. 



466. Chliaria merguia, Doherty. 



Originally described from Lower Burma. Found in Sumatra 

 from Bekantschau to the higher Battak mountains in the last three 

 months in the year, but is a rare species. 



467. Chliaria amabilis, Martin. 



C. amabilis, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soo., vol. ix, p. 309, n. 30, 

 pi. P, fig. 42, male (March, 1895) ; Zellus amabilis, Martin, Einige neue Tagschmet- 

 terlinge von Nordost-Sumatra, pt. 2, p. 11, n. 9 (October, 1895). 



Found in Java. In Sumatra it flies fiom Selesseh to Bekantschan 

 in June, July and August. Hare, Dr. Martin has obtained five or six 

 specimens only. 



468. Zeltus etolus, Fabricius. 



Hagen. Grose Smith. Found all over our area and is everywhere 

 common, the males on wet roads, the females much scarcer and flying 

 in the jungle. Dr. Martin has made the same observation that I did 

 fourteen years ago when I first saw this butterfly alive (Journ. A. S. B., 

 vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 59, n. 105 (1881) that "The male when flying over 

 small puddles of water reminds one very much of a common blue-bodied 

 dragonfly." 



469. Neocheritra amrita, Felder. 



Grose Smith. Snellen. Hagen. Occurs in the mountains south 

 of Bekantschan in July. We have never seen a male, and the female 

 is rare. 



470. Neocheritra namoa, de Niceville. 



N. namoa, de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. Ix 

 >, male (1894). 



Described from a unique male captured in the Battak mountains 



N. namoa, de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lxiii, pt. 2, p. 41, n. 86, pi. v, 

 fig. 9, male (1894). 



