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L, de Niceville —Species of the genus Eurytela. 
be doing something. District officers and others can search for manu¬ 
scripts and copper plates, and the more important of the former which 
are known might be copied. # If a small 
* I have just heard of some g ra nt of Rs. 500 a year could be allotted 
manuscripts in Sibsagar which will n . ., ., , , T ., 
probably prove very interesting. f 01 ‘ two or three years, it would, I think, 
suffice to enable us to get photographs, 
and rubbings of the inscriptions referred to in paragraph 16 (8), and 
to obtain copies and translations of such historical and <?M<m-historical 
writings as are already known to exist, excluding those in Manipur, for 
the copying and translating of which the State might fairly be called 
upon to provide the necessary funds. It would also leave a margin for 
the purchase of the coins referred to in paragraph 16 (1) (3) and (4) 
whenever any new ones are brought to light, and if any money should 
still remain available, it might profitably be spent in the gradual 
exploitation of the old ruins of palaces, forts, and temples which are 
scattered all over the province. In the meantime, enquiries could be 
carried on by the district staff and other persons interested into the 
different sources of information indicated in this Note, and we should 
thus be able to know, by the time the copying and translating of 
K\\om puthis has come to an end, in what directions it would be best 
to continue our operations with a view to rescuing from oblivion the 
past history of the province. 
E. A. GAIT. 
Shillong, 
The 6th September , 1894. 
The following papers were read : — 
1. Note on the Oriental Species of the rliopcilocerous genus Eurytela, 
Boisduval.—By Lionel de Nice'ville, Esq., F. E. S., C. M. Z. S., &c. 
In 1869, Dr. A. R. Wallace in his “Notes on Eastern Butterflies 
enumerated two species of the genus Eurytela, Boisduval, as occurring* 
in the East, E. castelnaui, Felder, from the Malay Peninsula (Singapore), 
and Borneo, and E. liorsfieldii , Boisduval, from Java. No new oriental 
species have since been described, but the known habitat of these two 
species has been greatly extended since then. I find on a close examina¬ 
tion of my large series of specimens of the genus, that they can be split 
up considerably into distinct species ; these I briefly characterise below. 
I have not thought it necessary to figure the new species from India, 
as Mr. F. Moore will shortly deal with them in his “ Lepidoptera 
Indica,” vol. ii. E. fruhstorferii , however, from Java, will be more fully 
described and figured elsewhere hereafter. 
# Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 331. 
