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SYNONYMIC CATALOGUE OF THE LEP1DOPTERA 

 PAPILLONINA IN THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION. 



By L. C. H. Young, 



Hon. Sec, Insect Section of the Bombay Natural History Society. 



I believe a complete list of the Papilionina, or Butterflies, in the Society's 

 collection has not hitherto been published, which, I hope, will be a sufficient 

 justification for this paper. 



We have now a fairly representative collection of the Indian region proper, 

 thanks to the generosity of our many correspondents, and, I think, it will be of 

 interest to all collecting members to know what we have and have not got. 



It will be seen that we are very poorly represented in the Hesperiadse and 

 those forms of the Lycsenidae (the great genus Arhopala, for instance) mostly 

 confined to Assam and Burmah ; also that we have none of the species peculiar 

 to Tennasserim or the An damans. The collection has of course been limited 

 to the Indian Empire. 



I have not recorded the localities whence the specimens came ; in many, 

 probably the majority of cases, they are unknown, though they can often be 

 inferred, and moreover it would?entail enumerating each specimen separately 

 which considerations of space do not justify. 



In the matter of synonyms I have only thought it necessary to enumerate 

 those by which actual Indian specimens have been described in the majority of 

 cases. A statement of opinion on the more difficult subject of the relative 

 specific value of the various local races which have been described from 

 different Malayan islands of most of the widely distributed species would be 

 out of place here. 



As regards the Indian forms I believe I have not differed much from the 

 general opinion of most collectors in this country. 



Fam. I. Nymphalidce. 



Melit-ea. Fb. 



balbita. Mre. 

 Argynnis. Fb. 



lathonia. L. 



kassala. Mre. 



adippe. L. 



jainadeva. B. H. 

 aglaia. L. var. vitalha. Mre. 

 castetsii. Oberth. 

 hyberbius. Johan. 



niphe. L. 



argyrius, Sp. 



argynnis. Drury. 



tephnia. Gdt. 



aruna. Mre. 

 childreni. Gray. 



sakontala. Kull. 

 rudra. Mre. 

 Junonia. Hb. 

 asterie. L. 



almara. Clh. 

 atlites. L. 



laodamia. L. 

 lemonias. L. 



aonis. Or. 

 hierta. Fb. 



aemone. Cr. 

 orithyia. L. 

 Precis. Hb. 

 iphita. Cr. 



intermedia. Feld. 



