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Show 1884.] ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM KURRACHEE. 503 at the end of the cell; secondaries, thorax, and abdomen pale shining stramineous ; head pure white ; antennae brownish ; primaries below and pectus golden or bronzy-greyish without definite markings ; venter and secondaries pale shining stramineous. Expanse of wings 19 millim. Aden (Yerbury and Swinhoe). Col. Swinhoe's specimen, though recognizable, is a good deal injured by being in spirit. 2. O n Lepidoptera collected at Kurrachee. B y Lieut.-Col. C. S W I N H O E , F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Eeceived October 4, 1884.] (Plates XLVII.-XLV1II.) Kurrachee does not afford a large field for the collection of Lepidoptera ; its main features are sea, sand, and salt soil; the entire sea-coast of Sind, right up to Soumiani, the ancient seaport of Beloochistan, is a mere reclamation from the sea caused by the scour of the great river Indus, and has, besides babul trees (Acacia arabica.), mimosa bushes, and the rank growth peculiar to sea-mud, no vegetation whatever, and even for many miles inland there is little but Babul and Euphorbia-bushes. In some years when rain falls, the grass springs up in the valleys, and some attempt at cultivation is made by the people; but during the time I remained at Kurrachee, from December 1878 up to August 1880, no rain whatever fell, and though I had a trained native collector with me the whole time, who collected regularly every day, the following is but a meagre list compared to what it would be for the same leno-th of time in any other part of India. The Lepidoptera of Kurrachee are, however, very interesting, more especially with reference to the Teracoli, many different and distinct species from widely ranging localities appearing; to meet there. Heavy rain fell at Kurrachee in the summer of 1882 and I employed a native collector there for some months, through the kind assistance of Mr. Murray, the Curator of the Municipal Museum, who dated and sent me the collections, and these collections contained, as will be seen, several species not observed during the years when no rain fell. RHOPALOCERA. N Y M P H A L ID^E. EUPLCEIN^E. 1. TlRUMALA LIMNIACE. Pap. limniace, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59. f. D, E (1779). At Kurrachee, in July 1882, after the unusually heavy rain of the summer of that year ; is not usually found at Kurrachee or along the |