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Show 604 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [May 3, NYMPHALINJE. 4. HYPOLIMNAS MISIPPUS. Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 291 (1764). 6 Kurrachee (October, 1879); 2 Kurrachee (July, 1880) ; 2 Magar Pir, Sind. The females are both referable to the variety H. dorippus of Klug. Major Swinhoe remarks of this species :- "Common in September; many of the females show great variety in markings, some having the apical area very slightly marked with the usual black markings ; common also in Hydrabad." H. bolina, L., is stated to be in the Kurrachee Museum, as taken there. Of the Vanessa? (which are not represented in the collection) Major Swinhoe forwards the following notes : - "Pyrantels cardui, L., January, February, July, August, and December. "Junonia lemonias, L., in Kurrachee Museum as taken here; J. cenone, L., January to May, November and December, common J. orithyia, L., April and May, not common ; J. asteria, L., Hydrabad, Sind, one specimen taken at Kurrachee in N.W.; J. almana, L., January and November, not common." 5. MODUZA PROCRIS (No. 1). Limenitis procris, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 106. f. E, F (1779). One example, but only labelled " N. India." 6. RAHINDA HORDONIA (No. 6). Papilio hordonia, Stoll, Suppl. Cramer, pi. 33. f. 4, 4a7 (1790). One example, Neilgherries. 7. PARTHENOS VIRENS (NO. I)1. Parthenos virens, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. p. 47 (1877). Two specimens, Neilgherries. 8. CIRROCHROA SWINHOEI, sp. n. (No. 3). 2 • Allied to G. thais of Ceylon, but of a clear bright fulvous colour above, almost as bright as in C. aoris and G. mithila, the primaries more falcate than in C. thais, the inner or discal zigzag line less strongly defined and more completely separated into <-shaped markings, the very irregular series just beyond the cell considerably more slender, secondaries with all the markings less pronounced : body considerably paler, the thorax pale greenish. Under surface stone-colour, with greenish and flesh-coloured tints, the basal area to the middle being flesh-coloured, the discal lines and outer borders washed with pale olivaceous ; the band across the centre rather paler than the ground-colour, but not white or silvery in the type specimen ; a diffused double pearly white spot at apex of primaries ; 1 " Cynthia No. 1," on label. |