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possession copy of revised localities wiiich he compiled for the improvement of any further 

 edition of Horsfield and Moore's India-Museum Catalogues. I have now before me 

 a memorandum-book kindly lent to me by Mrs. Atkinson, in which I find noted for 

 Kashmir, which he visited in 1874, just the particulars which I should have expected in 

 his Sikkim diary. 



Mr. Atkinson resigned the Secretaryship of the Asiatic Society in 1864, and in the 

 following year was elected one of its Vice-Presidents and nominated a Trustee of the New 

 Indian Museum. His official duties necessarily occupied the greater part of his time ; and 

 tlie want of leisure as well as of books of reference prevented him from venturing on the 

 description of any of the novelties which now filled his drawers. He was, however, in 

 frequent correspondence with Mr. F. Moore, who, in his paper " On the Lepidopterous 

 Insects of Bengal " (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 755), described, but did not figure, three new species of 

 Satumiida; sent home from Darjiling by Mr. Atkinson. These were Cricula drepaiundes, 

 Satuvnia anna, and Loepa sikkima — the two last having the provisional names assigned to 

 them by Mr. Atkinson. Another fine species of the same group, Loepa miranda, Atkinson, 

 was described by Mr. Moore in Trans. Entom. Soc. ser. 3, vol. ii. p. 424, 1865 ; but neither 

 of this has any figure yet been published. 



Mr. F. Walker's Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera in the British Museum 

 contains in its Supplements (Parts 31-35, 1S65-6G) several new species sent home by Mr. 

 Atkinson to be described and named. As the types of these were, I believe, returned to 

 India by Mr. Walker, it is to be feared they are lost to this country, though duplicates, 

 where they existed, will probably be found among the specimens wliicli he told me he had 

 presented, before leading Calcutta, to the Indian Museum. 



In Hewitson's ' Exotic Buttei-flies ' I find figures only of the three following species 

 of Mr. Atkinson's : — 



Vol. iii. 1862-66. Ertcixid^ . . . Dodona dipoea. Darjiling. 



Ilesperia phcenicis. India *. 

 Ileq^eria eltola. Darjiling. 



Vol. iv. 1807-71. Hesperidji: \ 



It was not until 1805, when Mr. Atkinson came to England on three months' leave, 

 that he made Mr. Hewitson's aquaintance. Of tlie other novelties from Darjiling described 

 by the latter in this work, I find Myrina symira figured in Supplementary Plate III. h of 

 Part VIII. (and last) of his ' Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' which has been published 

 since his death. The two Hesperidaj (//. cephala and //. cerata) were doubtless reserved to 

 be figured in another Part of the same work which he proposed to devote to this family. 



* Identical, ilr. Moore tells me, with a Uesjjeria which both Mr. Atkinson and I had reared on the Date-tree at 

 AUipore. 



