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Show 126 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Feb. 3, Mr. Butler has pointed ,out to me that Klug's type of L. dorippus has white hind wings, a fact which appears to have been entirely overlooked; but this does not entitle the all red L. dorippus to a new name, because King happens to have figured an inconstant variety instead of the normal form. 6. LlMNAS DORIPPUS. Euploea dorippus, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 48. figs. 1-5 (1829). Poona, October and December; Khandalla, October ; Bombay, August. 7. CRASTIA CORE. Pap. core, Cramer, Pap. Exot. hi. pi. 266. figs. E, F (1780). Euploea vermiculata, Butler, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 276. Common everywhere all the year round ; the variety E. vermiculata is very plentifully met with throughout the whole district, and there are so many intermediates, that it is impossible to separate the two forms. 8. PADEMMA KOLLARI. Euploea kollari, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 325 (1867), 6* • Poona, September; Bombay, August. Is not often met with, but I do not believe it is rare ; it so exactly resembles E. core in coloration that it is passed over as E. core. In September in Poona, and again in the following August in Bombay, I made my collector catch every E. core he could find, and thus got a few E. kollari in each place ; it is quite distinct from P. sinhala of Ceylon. The female is very similar in all its markings to the male, and only differs in the absence of the whitish sexual patch in the cell of the hind wings, and in having the hinder margin of the fore wings straight. I have several examples taken with males from Calicut, where this species is quite common. SATYRINE. 9. MELANITIS LEDA. Pap. leda, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 773 (1767). Common in all moist places from July to October. 10. MELANITIS ISMENE. Pap. ismene, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 26. figs. A, B (1775). Common in all moist places all the year round ; very plentiful in winter. 11. CALYSISME PERSEUS. Pap. perseus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 488 (1775). Poona, October and November ; Bombay, October. Not common. |