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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. 

 ( With Plates E and III.) 



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

 Vol. XVI of this Journal, Part 4, at page 570, it reached the third 

 instalment only in Part 4 of Vol. XVII at page 921. Mr. L. C. H. 

 Young, who had been induced to undertake the writing of it some- 

 what unwillingly, had to go home on account of ill-health in the 

 middle of last year and shortly afterwards succumbed to an operation 

 which was found to be necessary. By his demise the Society has 

 lost one of the most useful of its members who, in the Entomoloo[ical 

 Section, laboured early and late to put some sort of order into the 

 collections which, up to the time of his intervention, had received 

 very little attention indeed. Mr. Young made order out of chaos 

 and cabinet after cabinet now stand in the Society's Rooms, an 

 eloquent witness to his energy and neatness, containing long series 

 of butterflies, moths and other insects, all beautifully labelled and 

 arranged in their proper places. An obituary notice appeared at 

 page 184 of Vol. XVII, Part I of the Journal, a regretful tribute 

 to his memory. 



Mr. Young was a man of essentially scientific habit of thought 

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

 treatment of a si^bject 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 unwillingly. 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 of these ideas he naturally incorporated them in 

 what he wrote. His classification included some insects in genera 

 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 



