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Show 1886.] COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF MHOW 421 1. O n the Lepidoptera of Mhow, in Central India. By Colonel C. S W I N H O E , F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Eeceived June 3, 1886.] (Plates XL. & XLI.) I collected Lepidoptera at Mhow from September 1881 until August 1882, with the assistance of a trained native, whose captures were daily recorded. M y military duties kept me well employed, and as I also collected birds and took notes on them during the whole of this period, the results of which have since appeared in ' The Ibis,' I had not much time to give to the study of Lepidoptera; and therefore this paper only professes to contain a list of Lepidoptera taken in Mhow and its immediate neighbourhood for a year, with the addition of a few taken by my subordinates at the sub-stations of Neemuch and Assirghur. I am indebted to Lord Walsingham for working out the specimens of Tortricidee and Tineina. Types of all the new species mentioned in this paper have been presented by me, as usual, to the British Museum. I. RHOPALOCERA. N Y M P H A L I D A EUPLOSINJE. 1. TLRTJMALA LIMNIACE. Pap. limniace, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59. f. D, E (1775). Common from September to July. 2. SALATURA GENTJTIA. Pap. genutia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 206. f. C, D (1779). Common from September to July. 3. LIMNAS CHRYSIPPUS. Pap. chrysippus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 471 (1758). Common everywhere from September to Marcb 4. LIMNAS ALCIPPOIDES. Limnas alcippoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238, pi. 31. f. 1. I took one example of this variety at Mhow in June 1882, and one at Panghur near Neemuch in November 1884. 5. CRASTIA CORE. Pap. core, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 266. f. E, F (1780). March and June. Very plentiful in March ; only one example taken in June. |