OP MERGUI AKD ITS AECHIPELAGO. 



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Family Papilionid^. 

 Subfamily Pieeike. 

 Nychitona Xiphia. 



Papilio Xiphia, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 43 (1781). 

 Mergui (Nov.) ; Elphinstone Island (March). 



Teeias bubella, Wallace, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 323. 

 Zediwon (Dec.) ; Mergui (March). 



Teeias Eama, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 566. 

 Mergui (Dec. and March) ; Pataw Island (Dec). 



Teeias foehosa. 



Eurema formosa, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett. f. 979-980 (1837). 

 Sullivan Island (Jan.) ; Thapo, King Island (Jan.) ; Kisseraing 

 Island (Jan.) ; Timiki, King Island (Feb.). 



Teeias sodalis, n. sp. 



From typical Javan and Sumatran T. Sari this differs in its 

 much smaller size. Male : fore wiug with similar shaped but 

 comparatively narrower marginal band ; hind wing also with the 

 marginal band narrower. Female : both wings with the marginal 

 band also narrower, that on the fore wing having the lower end 

 of the sinus convex, not sharply angular as in T. Sari. Under- 

 side : fore wing of both sexes with a large quadrate reddish-brown 

 apical patch, which is dentate on its lower side ; a small dusky 

 patch at posterior angle ; both wings also with the usual brown 

 speckled lunular marks. 



Expanse, & $ 1^ to 1^- inch. 



Hob. Thaing, King Island (Feb.) ; Pataw Island (Dec). 

 Teeias silhetana. 



Terias silhetana, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 324. 

 Sab. Mergui (Dec) ; Sullivan Island (Jan.) ; Thaing, 

 Island (Jan.) ; Elphinstone Island (March). 



Teeias hecabeoides. 



Terias Hecabeoides, Menet. Catal. Mus. Petr. Lep. i. p. 85, t. 2. f. 2 

 (1855), <J. 



Sab. Mergui (Dec andMarch); Pataw Island (Dec); Zediwon 

 (Dec) ; Elphinstone Island (March). 



Distinguished by its bright gamboge-yellow colour ; the band 

 on fore wing broad, its sinus dentate ; the band on hind wing 

 also broad. Underside with all the markings delicately defined, 

 the discocellular marks narrow ; and both sexes without any 

 trace of the subapical patch on fore wing. 



