1895.] L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin — Butterflies of Sumatra. 551 



in P. pellucida the arrangement is alternate." I have specimens of 

 P. pellucida from Western China identified by Mr. Leech, and which 

 agree with Mr. H. Pryer's figure of the species in " Rhopalocera Niho- 

 nica," pi. x, n. W, female, also with Dr. 0. Staudinger's figure in Roma- 

 noff's " Memoires sur les Lepidopteres," vol. iii, pi. viii, fig. 3, male, 

 which further differ from E. guttatus in the forewing in the lowest of the 

 three subapical spots being moved outwards towards the margin instead 

 of being directly under the other two ; the spots in the discoidal cell 

 are lai'ger and not placed immediately above one another but obliquely ; 

 and, histly, the antennas are absolutely different, the shaft being half as 

 long again as in E. guttatus, and the club elongated instead of being 

 short and compressed. The differences in markings may perhaps be 

 considered to be trivial unless shewn to be constant in a long series, but 

 the difference in the antennas must be specific. But Leech gives 

 " Hesperia " toona, Moore, as a synonym of P. pellucida, which is, I 

 think, incorrect. Watson gives E, bada as a, distinct species, and places 

 P. mangala as a synonym of P. guttatus. In this I agree with him. 

 H. fortunei is probably distinct, though placed by Leech as a synonym 

 of E. guttatus, as noted above. As figured in " Reise Novara," Lepidop- 

 tera, pi. Ixxii, fig. 11, male, it has the antennas as long as P. pellucida, but 

 differs from that species in having no spots in the discoidal cell of the 

 forewing, and the discal spots of the hindwing arranged in a straight 

 line instead of being placed alternately. I would arrange all these 

 names thus : — 



1. Baoris (Parnara) toona, Moore, from the Himalayas, Bhutan, 

 Assam, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, South India, Sumatra, Java, 

 and Celebes. 



2. Baoris (Parnara) fortunei, Felder, from Shanghai. 



3. Baoris (Parnara) pellucida, Murray, from Japan and Western 

 China. 



4. Baoris (Parnara) guttatus, Bremer and Grey. 



Pamphila mangala, Moore, from the Western Himalayas, China, 

 and Japan. 



5. Baoris (Parnara) bada, Moore. 



Pamphila ayostata, Snellen, from nearly the whole of India, 

 Ceylon, Burma, Sumatra, and Java. 



In B. toona there are always two spots in the discoidal cell of the 

 forewing, usually conjoined. In B. guttatus, of which 1 have a good 

 series from the Western Himalayas, Western and Central China, and 

 Japan, there is sometimes a minute spot in the cell (piobably this spot 

 is occasionally absent altogether), or two spots, variable in size, but 

 never conjoined. In B. bada, there are sometimes no spots, one, or two 



