. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . the black outer margin not being produced inwardlj^ in interspace3 on the upperside of the fore wing. These three groups present nodifficulty even though the amount and intensity of the black mark-ing may vary greatlj according to season : the general pattern of aspecies always remains the same. The Hyposcritia species indraand lalage with their races or varieties (indra with shiva, statiliaand varendra and lalage with durvasa, argyridina and lagela) canseemingly be separated from all others by the relative lengths of thediscocellular veinlets
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . the black outer margin not being produced inwardlj^ in interspace3 on the upperside of the fore wing. These three groups present nodifficulty even though the amount and intensity of the black mark-ing may vary greatlj according to season : the general pattern of aspecies always remains the same. The Hyposcritia species indraand lalage with their races or varieties (indra with shiva, statiliaand varendra and lalage with durvasa, argyridina and lagela) canseemingly be separated from all others by the relative lengths of thediscocellular veinlets and by the fact that thej have either a minuteblack dot on the discocellular veinlets of the fore wing on the upper-side (iiulra) or a large black spot in the lower apex of the cell onthe same wing (lalage). These last two species are rather like theGatophaga lot to look at and it is this Gaiophaga group or sub-genusin which the confusion exists. Colonel Bingham, in the Fauna ofBritish India, gives five species of Gatophaga : paulina, galathsa,. 330 JOURNu-iL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII. albina, leis and ivardi. Captain W. H. Evans has just published a List of Indian Butterflies in this Journal (March 31st and July30th, 1912), in which he reduces these to two : albina and melania(^ Zeis), lumping ^jiattZma, wardi and galathea under the may be correct in keeping albina (= clarada, neumbo) as a goodspecies. Leis and tvardi are probably the same insect, for the bredseries of Kanarese Gatopliaga as also a considerable number ofcaught males and females are distinctly all referable to one orother of these two forms as described in Colonel Binghams book,though the Kanarese form does not always agree in every detailwith either. Galathea and paulina, the one from the Andamansand Nicobars, the other from Ceylon, may w^ell be local races of thesame melania-leis. There is one somewhat suspicious fact connect-ed with the name of venusta which is one of the recognized
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