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Show 1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC. 603 collector has brought in from captures at this place (Kurrachee) it is of course only a very slight sketch. The life of a Chief Commissariat Officer at the base of war operations has not much leisure in it. I have had to keep the army of Southern Afghanistan supplied with pretty well every thing . . . . It has therefore only been at odd hours, when every one else was sleeping, that I have been able to take occasional notes." The second consignment consisted of a single small box forwarded on the 12th August, and followed by a letter dated from Quetta 3rd September, 1880, in which Major Swinhoe says:-" I rode up the Bolan 100 odd miles in five days. The heat at Sibi and at the first two stages was intense; but we began to ascend rapidly before reaching Mach, when we got out of the heat, and at Dusht, 6000 feet above sea-level, it was dreadfully cold at night, to me especially, just coming out of the intense heat of the Sind post. You descend again a thousand feet on reaching Quetta. " I have, as usual, been collecting everywhere. I have my collector with me, who hunts every day ; and after my day's work is done I sort the good out of the rubbish, and put them carefully away with the dates attached to the examples; and my friends returning sick or on duty to Kurrachee take them to my wife there, who knows how to take care of them until my return. I hope I shall have a nice report to make to the British Museum when I return, and send you a fine collection of examples; but indeed both in Birds and Butterflies there is not much new; most are European species " '. The following is a list of the species:- RHOPALOCERA. NYMPHALIDJE. EuPLCEIN^E. 1. EUPLCEA VERMICULATA (No. 1). Euplcea vermiculata, Butler, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 276. Mussoorie (one specimen). Major Swinhoe says that the allied E. core is "taken at Hydra-bad, Sind ; said to be occasionally taken at Kurrachee-not found here by me : " he also applies the same observation to Danais limniace2 and Melanitis ismene. 2. PARANTICA NILGIRIENSIS (NO. 2). Danais nilgiriensis, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx* p. 44 (1877). One female specimen. Neilgherries. 3. PARANTICA AGLEA (NO. 3). Papilio aglea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 377. f. E (1782). One male from Belgaum. 1 M y report on Captain Koberts's collection has shown that the Lepidoptera are rather Persian than European species, although allied to European forms. 2 Tirumala limniace, Moore. |