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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 863 28. CYRESTIS G A N E S C H A. Amathusia ganescha (part.), Kollar in Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 430, pi. 7. figs. 3, 4 (1848). d, Murree, 9th August, 1885. "Rare, only three specimens taken; probably not more than four specimens seen in all."-/. TV. Y. Kollar apparently regarded C. thyodamas as the other sex of this species, and in this error he has been largely followed. If it proves to be a seasonal form or dimorphic representative of that species, it will indicate a similar condition of things as probably existing between C. lutea and C. nivea of Java, which differ precisely in the same way, although in a more marked degree. C. thyodamas is a white species compared with C. ganescha ; the apical area of its primaries is always suffused with blackish, which has the effect of a quadrate apical patch ; this character does not appear in Kollar's figure, which is evidently taken from what I (on that account) regard as typical C. ganescha-the more or less yellow-tinted form ; but in the description-" Vor dem Aussenrande ist das Feld ausserhalb der fiinften Linie mehr oder weniger schwarz getriibt"-it is evident that both types are included; and the remark, " between male and female I find no other difference than that in the latter the marking is more lively and intense," shows that G. thyodamas was supposed to be the female, whereas this sex seems to be very much rarer than the male in either of the Indian forms. ERYCINIDA. LlBYTHEIN^E. 29. LlBYTHEA LEPITA. Libythea lepita, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co. Mus. i. p. 240. n. 519 (1857). d 2 , 2 n d> l2th> 16th' a n d 2 3 r d A ugu s t ' a n d 8 t h September, 1885; 2 , Lumbahdun, 27th November. o* var. (without hatchet-like termination to discoidal streak), Thundiani, 24th September. "Common at Murree in August and September. Only two specimens of this Butterfly were taken in the neighbourhood of Campbellpore-one near Lawrencepore 22nd November, and one at Lumbahdun in the Chittar Pahar, 27th November."-/. TV. Y. Major Yerbury appears to think that L. myrrha exists in his series of this species; the latter, however, is easily recognized by the unbroken tawny stripe on the primaries, intersected by the median vein and its two first branches, and by the larger, entirely tawny, sub-apical spots ; the direction of the tawny stripe on the secondaries differs a little, and it is longer and not zigzag along its outer edge. No lepidopterist possessing examples of the two species could possibly confound them. 24* |