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Show 1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC 607 with a black marginal line, fringe with the basal half grey, the external half white ; of the female smoky brown, more or less washed with blue towards the base, a submarginal series of small lunate orange spots, outer border broadly blackish, fringe as in the male. Wings below whity-brown, greyer and paler in the male than in the female; the black spots arranged exactly as in L. zephyrus, but all smaller and with less conspicuously white zones ; the double series of submarginal spots on the primaries grey and without connecting orange spots in the male, paler in the female ; submarginal spots on the secondaries less distinctly black, the orange spots paler, not relieved by a pure white border as in L. zephyrus; base of the secondaries rather more broadly washed with bluish green. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1^ line. Three pairs, the females much worn. Quetta, North Beloo-chistan, March and April. This is incorrectly labelled L. cyllarus ?; the latter is a much larger and very distinct species. 22. ZlZERA KARSANDRA (NoS. 4 & 5). Polyommatus karsandra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 505. n. 106, pi. 31. fig. 7. Sixteen specimens, but mostly worn or broken. "April, May, July ; very common. Kurrachee." 23. SCOLITANTIDES NYSEUS (No. 8). Polyommatus nyseus, Guerin in Deless. Souv. Voy. Ind. p. 78, pi. 22. fig. 1 (1843). One fair specimen, Hydrabad, Sinde ; and one broken, Neilgherries. 24. APHN^EUS ACAMAS. Lyca?na acamas, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 40. figs. 7-9 (1834). A pair in good condition. Kurrachee, February and August, 1880. Occurs at "Hydrabad, Sind, in February, March, and August, but is not common." 25. APHN^EUS VULCANUS, var. (No. 2). Papilio vulcanus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 519 (1775). One worn female. Neilgherries. PAPILIONID^E. PIERINJE. 26. COLIAS NILGIRIENSIS. Colias nilagiriensis, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. iii. p. 395 (1859). Two pairs. Neilgherries. 27. COLIAS ERATE. Papilio erate, Esper, Eur. Schmett. i. (2) pi. 119. fig. 3 (1806). One worn pair. Quetta, 26th March and 20th April, 1880. |