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THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA 



(INCLUDING THOSE MET WITH IN HILL STATIONS OF THE 



BOMBAY PRESIDENCY). 



BY 



T. R. Bell, lf.s. 



( TVith Plates E and III.) 



This series of papers has progressed so far but slowly. Beoim in 



with an innate contempt for anything in the nature of a " popular " 

 treatment of a subject of this description. The work of composing 

 a paper, such as this was to be, was not to him a congenial task and he 

 undertook it, as already stated, very unwillingl}-. He had his own 

 ideas about insect-classification and they differed in many respects 

 from the ordinarily accepted ones. Convinced of the correctness and 

 reasonableness cf these ideas he naturally incorporated them in 

 what he wrote. His classification included some insects in oenera 

 containing, as constituted up to the present time, species with 

 which they have little connection and, in one case, led him even 

 to exclude a particular genus from a Sub-family one species 



