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reefs of the coi’al islands south of Pamban Pass, close by is a heap of the pretty 
Eyed-Cowry, and so on througli the whole series of local shells that are attrac- 
tive either because of their colour or their shape. And with them are always 
great heaps of thousands of the stony opercula of the Turban shells. The Tamil 
name for these is amhiUninn, meaning “ the disc of the moon.” 
The actual shells of Turbo, after the death of the occupants, are often appro- 
priated by hermit-ci’abs ; some of these are more at home on the beach above 
tide-mark than in the sea, and, in the Laccadive Islands, on turning big boulders 
in the screw pine scrub along tbc beach a crowd of hermit-crabs usually make 
off in a flurry hiding their soft tails in Turban shells. 
M.\nRAS, %th June 1922. 
.TAMES HOP NELL. 
NO. XXX.— SOME INTERESTING SPECIMENS OF THE PIERID 
GENTTS EUCHUE. 
( With a te.it fiyuve) 
Among a collection of butterflies sent to the Zoological Surv^ey of India last 
year for identification by Mr. G. E. Shaw were seveial specimens of two forms 
of the Piei'id genus Euchlce, one closely related to E. charlonia transcaspica and 
the other to E. helemia. The form related to transcaspica was originally thought 
to be a race of the form described by Bingham as Sjjnchloe lucill'i, (but which 
IS now regarded as a race of E. charlonia ), differing only in being quite white. 
It is. however, more closely related to transcaspica, differing mainly in size, its 
whiteness and the paleness of the underside of the wings and the conspicuousness 
of the marginal white markings on the upperside of the forewings. Mr. N. D. 
Riley has very kindly compared one of the specimens sent to me with the twenty- 
four examples of transcaspica in the British Museum and finds that it disagrees 
in these points from all of them. He writes that if there are many specimens 
exactly like the one I sent him they should receive a name, but though I have 
.seen many specimens I have refrained from describing them as new as I hope 
Mr. Riley will do so himself. The object of the present note is merely to bring 
to the notice of the Society’s members the fact that the butterflies mentioned here 
are ajrparently new, and to ask them if they have arry specimens to send them 
to Mr. Riley at the British Museum, who will I think be jrleased to name them. 
The form related to E. helemia differs chiefly from the forma tijpica in its 
smaller size and the maikings on the apex of the forewings and the underside 
of the wings. The apical area of the upperside of the forewiirgs is almost en- 
tirely black, except for a small white spot near the costa and two ill-defined white 
dots. The apical area of the underside of the forewings is marked with yellowish* 
green stripes, which are considerably nairower than those of the tyjheal 
• I'lidcr a leas the •‘yellowisli green” stripes on Uie iiiulerside seem to me tote really 
blackish, with tiny yellowish-green scales superimposed. 
