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Show 602 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [May 3, 191. PODICEPS MINOR. Podiceps minor (Linn.), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 811; Fischer, J.f. O. 1880, p. 188. ColymBus minor, Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1878, p. -47; Fischer, J.f.O. 1879, p. 297. Pangani. . This species is to be found throughout the whole of the Ethiopian Region. 192. THALACROCORAX AFRICANUS. Gracidus africanus (Gm.), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 847; Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1878, p. 247; Fischer, torn. cit. p. 295. Usambara hills. The range of this species is probably the entire Ethiopian Region south of 30° N. lat.; for it is not uncommon on Lake Fayoom near Cairo; but its northern limits on the west coast are not yet so well defined. 7. O n a Collection of Lepidoptera from Western India, Be-loochistan, and Afghanistan. By A R T H U R G. BUTLER, F.L.Sv F.Z.S., &c. Assistant Keeper, Zoological Department, British Museum. [Eeceived March 28, 1881.] The collection, of which the following is an account, was received last year, in two consignments, from Major Charles Swinhoe. The first of these was accompanied by a letter dated from Kurrachee 1st May, 1880, in which Major Swinhoe says :-"I send you by this mail another small collection of Lepidoptera in three small boxes. . I am afraid there is not much in it you will care for. I have several boxes full of Butterflies and Moths in paper envelopes, but cannot find time to sort them. Mr. Murray, the Curator of the Kurrachee Museum, has gone to Kandahar at his and my expense ; and when happier times come I will send you his Afghan collections. One small box I have looked into is very much like a collection from England would be, or rather, I should say, from Europe ; it contained Pieris rapa?, P. mesentina, Colzas chryso-theme \ Pieris daplidice, Lyccena cyllarus, one pair of Nymphalidse I don't know, Deiopeia pulchella, and Grammodes stolida : I hope the others will show a greater variety. Mr. Murray's tour will extend over three months ; and therefore his notes and his collection should be valuable; but I am afraid that he will not be able to get beyond Khelat i Gilgai. " I send you a few notes made during the past year of what my 1 By this is intended C. crate; some of the others, as L. cyllarus, are doubtless identified from memory. |