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Show 1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC 605 pectus whitish, legs flesh-coloured. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. One specimen. Neilgherries. Mr. Moore has examples, apparently referable to this species, in his collection from the Neilgherries. 9. MESSARAS ERYMANTHIS (No. 2). Papilio erymanthis, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 15. figs. 3, 4 (1773). One specimen. Neilgherries. 10. HYPANIS POLINICE (NO. 5). Papiliopolinice, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 375. f. G, H (1782) One specimen. Neilgherries. 11. MELIT^EA ROBERTSII (No. 7). Melita?a robertsii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 406, pi. 39. fig. 2. One specimen. Chaman, South Afghanistan, M a y 1880. MORPHINE. 12. DlSCOPHORA TULLIA (No. 4). Papilio tullia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 81. f. A, B (1779). One female specimen. " North India. JJ LYCiENIDJi. 13. CURETIS PH.EDRUS (No. 2). Papilio pha?drus, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 125 (1781). One female. Neilgherries. 14. POLYOMMATUS B^ETICUS. Papilio ba?licus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 789 (1766). Seven specimens. Kurrachee, M a y and June, 1879. Major Swinhoe says that this species is very common in January, April, May, and July. 15. CATOCHRYSOPS CNEJUS. Hesperia cnejus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 430 (1798). Two males. Kurrachee, October 1879. With this species were two smaller Lyca?na? which agree fairly well with C. contractu, and must I think be slight variations of that species • but Major Swinhoe seems to regard them as a seasonal variety of L. cnejus. H e says : - " T h e September brood taken here at the Hubb river, and in the Mulleer, all within a radius of 20 miles from Kurrachee, is more than double the size of those taken in the spring and summer-the former having an expanse of 1^ inch while the others .-.re barely 10 lines, the difference every way in size being quite remarkable, whereas m every other respect the examples are identical." . . Of the four specimens now sent as C cnejus, two are typical and |