1889.] 



W. Dolicrty — Noles on Agsam Butti-rjlies. 



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Margherita, and ouo seen near Sadiya. Tlie former agrees witli regalis in 

 the dusky underside, and the very broad blue band and five bine spots 

 of the forewing above, but the hiudwing and the base of the forewing 

 have an obvious violet gloss, though they are not, as in angelica, powdered 

 wifcli bluish-white scales. The costal and first siibcostal veins of the fore- 

 wing are well separated. Mr. de Mceville thought that this occurred 

 only in P. calednnia (Mynes calydonia, StaudingerJ. But P. angelica has 

 the veins sometimes free and sometimes united. 



Family Nymphalidj!. 

 TANAiicu ADIMA, Mooro. Margherita. This species has the hindwing 

 sometimes wholly brown, sometimes with a narrow macular baud of 

 blue over three or four spaces marginally. These and intermediate 

 forms are all found in the same locality. I am inclined to think the 

 species distinct from apiades, though very near it. 



Family LyoiEKiDiE. 

 Sub-family Lrc^NiNiE. 



PiTHECOPS FTJLGENS, n. sp., PI. X, Fig. 6, c? . Male, alove black, 

 foreioiiuj with the cell, the interno-median space and the disc to the 

 lower radial, resplendent cyaneous blue in some lights, dull violet in 

 others, the black border wide, extending one-third towards the base. 

 Hindwing similarly blue from the lower subcostal to the submedian, 

 the black border somewhat narrower, especially towards the anal angle. 

 Cilia of hindwing whitish except at the ends of the veins. Female, 

 above blackish, the costa and outer margin of the forewing darker. 

 Cilia of the forewing pale, of the hindwing white. 



Belo^v, both sexes pure white, a very slender dark marginal line, 

 a narrow submarginal white band containing a line of six minute dark 

 transverse streaks in the forewing and five in the hindwing, within 

 which is a narrow transverse oohreous-brown fascia very clearly defined 

 (in the hindwing by an obscure dark line on its inner border), extend- 

 ing across the whole breadth of the forewing and on the hindwing from 

 the upper subcostal to the submedian vein. Traces of slender discal 

 streaks in the forewing near the lower angle within the oohi"oous band. 

 Apex of forewing obscured with black scales, hindwing with a large 

 and conspicuous subapical black spot extending from the costa to the 

 lower subcostal vein. 



Mai-gherita, where it perhaps takes the place of P. hylax. Accord- 

 ing to Mr. de Niceville, that species is in Sikkim much commoner than 

 Neopitliccops, which I did not see in Assam at all. But in the Chittagong 



