1885.] 11 



Marshall and De Niceville clear up all these mistakes in the 

 Butterflies o£ India, and are now attacked by Butler, who does not 

 like his species criticised by others, especially if they are new to the 

 work. 



"With regard to the locality assigned to A. Scylla, Mr. Butler's 

 ideas of geography must be vague, if he does not see the insufficiency 

 of his excuse, that because Mr. Duthie found it in Kumaon at 12 — 

 14,000 feet, therefore, it is reasonable to expect it to occur also in 

 the low flooded plains of Sylhet, 700 or 800 miles away ; and as no 

 species of the genus has been found even in the Khasia hills, from 

 which most of the specimens in the British Museum labelled Sylhet 

 probably come, it is incredible to any one who knows the nature of 

 the country that the most alpine form of Aulocera should be found 

 there. 



With regard to the last paragraph of his paper, in which he de- 

 scribes the efforts of those who have tried to discover the uses and 

 meaning of those curious sexual characters in many species of butter- 

 flies as "pitiable nonsense," I will say nothing, as I have no doubt it 

 will not be overlooked by entomologists who know far more of the 

 subject than I do. Such an opinion would be, if accepted, more de- 

 trimental to science even than guessing {ante p. 246). 



I here give a short table of the synonymy of the genus, with the 

 dates and localities of my own specimens. 



AuLOCEEA BEAHMINUS, Blaiichard. 



Sat. brahmimis, Blauck, in Jacquemont's Yoy., vol. iv, Ins., p. 22, T. ii, fig. 4, 

 male, 1844 ?. 

 Specimens in Mus. H. J. Elwes : — 

 4 c? 1 ? , Ser-ka-joth, North Mandi, N". W. H., 8000 feet, 24/6/83, 24/7/83. 



1 c? , Kulu, June ; 8 (? 5 ? , interior of Sikkim, July and August (Native 



Collector) . 

 var. alpina ? orientalis minor suhtus pallidior. 



8^2?, Chumbi Valley, Tibet, July and August, 1883. 

 var. alpina occidentalis suhtus lutescens. 



A. Scylla, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. iv, p. 122, 1867. 

 A. Werang, Lang, I. c, p. 247. 



1 (J 3 Kashmir, Lang ; 1 <? , Kashmir, Johnstone, 9000 feet. 



1 S , Sanch Pass, 13,000 feet, August, Marshall. 



6 c? 4 ? , Lahoul, 5—27/8/84, 10—13,000 feet, Young. 

 A. SwAHA, Kollar. 



Satyrus Swaha, Koll., in Hiigel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. ii, p. 444, T. xiv, figs. 1, 



2 (1848), 



5 (? 1 ? , Ser-ka-joth, 28/7/83, 8000 feet. 



2 S , Hazara, 9000 feet, Johnstone, 7/83. 



