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Show '^6 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [June 29, is extremely doubtful, and the genus (in any case) was not described in that list of names ; if adopted, it should be used in the Stephen-sian sense (i. e. either for daplidice or cardamines), and Westwood's action would fix the type as cardamines. Secondly, the identification of Papilio canidia is doubtful, and would probably apply to two or three species with equal accuracy, and therefore I prefer to give this species the name applied to it by Cramer. 79. GANORIS NIPALENSIS. Pieris brassicce, var. nipalensis, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, pi. figs. 1 & 3 (1846). o*, Campbellpore, 22nd and 29th May and 12th June, 1885. " Common in May, June, July, October, November, December. The cabbages in my garden are covered at the present time (llth January, 1886) with the caterpillars of some white butterfly1, and there are some half-dozen chrysalides on the walls of the bungalow; they all probably belong to this species." 80. EUCHLOE LUCILLA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXV. fig. 4.) Allied to E. charlonia of Algeria, from which, however, the following characters readily distinguish it:-Wings above gamboge-instead of lemon-yellow; the discocellular black patch broader, regular, and quadrate; the apical area browner, and, instead of forming a triangular patch, widely excavated and diffused on its inner edge and truncated at its inferior extremity ; the yellow streak across it much as in E. charlonia : under surface differing, at a glance, in the absence of the apical grey-green patch of primaries, the yellow instead of grey-green secondaries, the larger pale costal spots, the better marked grey-edged white discocellular spot, and the absence of the pale spots on the median interspaces. Expanse of wings 35 millim. Campbellpore, 27th May, 1885. " Anthocaris charlonia : rare, only three specimens taken-the first on the 21st May, the second on the 23rd, and the third on the 27th. " Nos. 1 and 2 were found on the same plant of Stachys parvifiora, No. 3 taken on the wing about a mile away."-/. TV. Y. I can only suppose that the name A. charlonia was given by Mr. de Niceville ; yet it would seem strange that a gentleman who claims to be almost an arbiter in questions relating to geographical distribution, should unhesitatingly give the name of an Algerian insect to a species obtained in North-western India. PAPILIONIN^E. 81. PAPILIO CLOANTHUS. Papilio cloanthus, Westwood, Arc. Ent. i. pi. 11. fig. 2 (1841). Murree, 10th September, 1885 (very ragged). 1 " Black: dorsal line white or yellow, spiral line yellow; yellowish-green irregular A-shaped patches speckled with black running up into the black from the spiral lines, but never reaching the dorsal lines ; length about two inches." |