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Show 154 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 3, 32. CHAPRA MATHIAS. Hesperia mathias, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 433 (1798). Mhow, October to December 1881. Colonel Swinhoe considered the specimens to represent two species; but, beyond the fact that some of them are rubbed and faded, I see no difference. Of the fresher specimens Colonel Swinhoe says-"Very common here in September, October, and November, when it is replaced by the following;" and of the faded ones-" Not very common : it is like some of my Kurrachee examples of Pamphila mathias; but every specimen I have captured is so worn I am not sure of it." It is of course quite natural that a Butterfly which has been two or three months on the wing should look a little different from freshly emerged specimens. 33. AMPITTIA MARO. Hesperia maro, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 432 (1798). Madras. A single male example, having the fulvous patch on the secondaries broader than in our Ceylon male; the species, however, seems to be somewhat variable in this respect. Colonel Swinhoe sends also a specimen of Gomalia albofasciata, but without any information respecting it, his note upon it having been lost. 34. TAGIADES MEETANA. Tagiades meetana, Moore, P.Z.S. 1878, p. 842, pi. hi. fig. 1. " Nilgherries ; I have also one example from Belgaum."-G. S. The species appears to be fairly common and widely distributed. HETEROCERA. SPHINGES. A Pergesa, apparently the female of P. aurifera somewhat rubbed, is in the collection, but without any information as to locality &c. 35. CLANIS EXUSTA. Basiana exusta, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 252, n. 37; Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ix. p. 595, pi. xciii. fig. 4 (1876). " Solun, in July."- C. S. 36. POLYPTYCHUS DENTATUS. Sphinx dentata, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 42, pi. 125. fig. G (1779). Polyptychus dentatus, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ix. p. 583, pi. xci. fig. 10, larva (1876). Belgaum. " I have one also taken at Mhow in October."-C. S. |