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Show 1886.] ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 355 8. On Lepidoptera collected by Major Yerbury in Western India. By A R T H U R G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c [Received June 25, 1886.] (Plate XXXV.) Major Yerbury has recently presented to the Museum a fine series of Lepidoptera collected by himself at Campbellpore ; along with the specimens he has forwarded numerous notes of considerable interest; therefore it is the more desirable that an account of the collection should be published. Unfortunately some of the specimens were pinned, and amongst these were several specimens of Caligula simla ; the usual result naturally followed-the abdomen of one of these large Saturniids broke off, and not only more or less damaged the other specimens of this species, but made such havoc amongst some of the smaller Moths as to render their identification hopeless. Major Yerbury has sent the following notes on the various localities mentioned by him :- " Campbellpore. A military station about 40 miles from Rawal Pindee. Height above sea-level, 1200 ft. ; situated on a cultivated sandy plain. The river Haro flows past the cantonment at a distance of about 2 miles to the southward and eastward ; the country across the river is very much broken up by water-courses and with rocky spurs running down to the river. "Attock. A military station to the N.W. of Campbellpore and 12 miles off; situated among barren hills on the banks of the Indus. " Khairabad. Railway-station across the Indus, opposite Attock ; barren hills all round. " Lawrencepore. An abandoned military station 9 miles from Campbellpore, on the banks of the Haro. " Chittar Pahar. A range of hills running east and west; the nearest point to Campbellpore about 7 miles across Haro. The highest peak of this range is about 3600 ft., but Kala Dilli, Lum-bahdun, and other places mentioned are probably only from 1500 to 1800 feet above sea-level. Limestone, thickly covered with vegetation to the north ; barren, with scattered bushes of baubul and jin-netta, on the south side. " Thundiani. Hill-station near Abbottabad (8/00 feet ?). "Kala Pani. Stage between Thundiani and Abbottabad (6000 feet ?). " Bugnoter. First stage from Abbottabad on the Abbottabad and Murree road (6000 feet ?). "Murree and Rawal Pindee road.- Tret, 5000 feet?, first stage from Murree; Chittar, 3000 feet?; Barracoo, 2500 feet, second stage ; Rawal Pindee, 1800 feet ? " Dewal, 6000 feet; first stage on Murree and Cashmere road. " Hassan Abdal, 1600 feet ? ; midway between Rawal Pindee and Campbellpore. |
