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60. Talicada nyseus. — This peculiarly distributed insect is not found 

 at all in Bombay, nor do I recollect once meeting with it at Khandalla, 

 Matheran, or Egutpura ; but in a particular spot at Maliableslrwar it was 

 swarming last March, and I have a faint recollection of its being equally 

 abundant at the hill forts of Singhur and Poorundhur near Poona, while 

 at Poona itself it is never wanting during the diy months. Mr. H. Wise 

 informs me that in Kanara he finds it at an elevation of 1,500 feet. It 

 lies very low and settles much on the ground, wings always closed. 



61. Lycaene&thes lycaenina. — There is one specimen, a male, in the 

 collection, without note of locality. I have a strong impression that 

 I myself caught it in Bombay and forgot to label it at the time. 



62. Lampides celianus. — This is not confined to the hills, but decidedly 

 more abundant there than on the plains. About Christmas there is no insect 

 more abundant at Khandalla. 



63. Catochrysops cnejus. — This is very common everywhere after the 

 monsoon. There is little to note about these commoner Lycaenidaa. They 

 are very much alike in their ways, flying low and often basking with their 

 hind wings more expanded than their fore wings, a habit which they share 

 with some of the Hesperidae. Some of them have also the curious habit of 

 rubbing their hind wings against each other. 



64. C. strabo, — This appears also after the monsoon, about August, 

 but is not so common in Bombay, I think, as the last. 



65. Tolyommatus loeiicus. — This is common everywhere. 



6G. Chilades vanmana. — There are five specimens in tie collection 

 without note of locality, but certainly from the Tarma or Nasik District 

 I know nothing about it. 



67. Pathalia albidisca. — There are a few specimens from different 

 parts of the Presidency. 



68. Azanas crameri. — A single specimen without note of locality. 



69. Spalgws epius.— I have found this on Karanja in February, 

 August, and September, but it is not common. 



70. Zizera Jcarsandra. — I find myself obliged, with shame, to confess 

 that I am not quite sure whether this is the species which swarms all over 

 the Esplanade in Bombay some time after the rains. I assumed that 

 I knew it, and now, when a doubt has arisen in my mind, I am no longer in 

 Bombay. It can scarcely however be any other species, 



71. Z.pygmaea. — This is a Bombay species too, but not so abundant. 



72. Z. ossa. — This has been described by Colonel Swinhoe for the first 

 time in the paper which I have already referred to. It is not by any 

 means uncommon, 



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