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Show 356 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [June 29, " Nisan Jani. Mountain near Kalabagh, Abbottabad and Murree road; highest point nearly 10,000 feet." The collection contains examples of 178 species, many of them represented by a fair series of specimens, mostly identified for the collector (but frequently erroneously) by Mr. de Niceville. Six of the Butterflies and nineteen of the Moths are described as new, and several other species probably new to science, but in bad condition, are indicated in order to show that there is still much to be done in that part of India by any one who will take the trouble to collect Lepidoptera. NYMPHALID^E. EuPLffilN^E. 1. LlMNAS CHRYS1PPUS. Papilio chrysippus, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 471. d, Campbellpore, 19th and 26th July, 1885; ?, 20th June and 26th July, 1885 ; Dewal near Murree, 24th August. One of the females has a tawny suhapical patch beyond the white band on primaries, exhibiting a slight tendency to modification in the direction of L. klugii. 1 A. LlMNAS ALCIPPOIDES. Limnas alcippoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238, pi. xxxi. fig. 1. 2, Campbellpore, 17th and 21st June and 18th July, 1885. The specimens of this form obtained by Major Yerbury tend to confirm m y expressed opinion that it is a reversional sport of L. chrysippus; the three specimens differ as follows :- a. Primaries as in L. alcippus; secondaries with the veins, internal area, and centre of median interspaces snow-white. b. Primaries as in L. chrysippus ; secondaries with the veins, internal area, and centre of median interspaces whitish. c. Primaries as in L. chrysippus ; secondaries above pale, below white. Major Yerbury says of L. chrysippus : - " Very common, May, June, July, October, November, December. Caterpillar common in July, feeds on Calotropis gigantea; agrees with the description given in ' The Butterflies of India,' and appears to be the same as that reared at Aden, where it fed on either this or some closely allied plant." Of L. alcippoides he says : - " Some eight specimens taken in all during May and June 1885 ; varies greatly in the amount of white on the hind wing." 2. LlMNAS KLUGII. Limnas klugii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 758. n. 2. Euploza dorippus, var., Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 48. fig. 5. $, Campbellpore, 11th June, 1885. " Not so common as L. alcippoides; only four specimens taken during May and 2nd to 11th June, 1885. All these specimens have curious leprous-like spots on their wings."-J. W. Y. |