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IV. List of Lepidoptera collected in Southern Afghanistan. 

 By Lieut.-Col. C. Swinhoe, F.L.S., F.'z.S. 



[Read October 1st, 1884.] 



Plate IX. 



This list represents the Lepidoptera collected by me 

 personally during the year I spent in field-service 

 between Sibi and Kandahar during 1880 — 81. I took 

 up a trained native collector with me, who collected 

 every day, and, so long as he lived, my collection 

 increased rapidly ; but unfortunately the man was 

 murdered one morning by a Ghazi, who got into my 

 quarters in Kandahar a few months after my arrival 

 there ; and my very severe duties as administrative head 

 of the whole of the Commissariat in Southern Afghanistan 

 left me very little time to collect insects. To my own 

 list I have added the few species from Afghanistan 

 described up to the present, and I believe the subjoined 

 list, meagre as it is, represents all the Lepidoptera from 

 that country of which we have as yet any knowledge. 



KHOPALOCERA. 



NYMPHALID^. 



EUPLCEIN^. 



1. Limnas clirysippus. 



Papilio chrysippus, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr., p. 263 

 (1764). 



Specimens from Koondalane taken in March, Mach 

 in August, Chaman in May, Quetta in September, and 

 Kandahar in October ; it was nowhere common, but one 

 or two were to be seen occasionally wherever we stayed 

 throughout the year, when the weather was not too 

 cold. This insect appears to have no particular season 

 for appearing. In Kurrachee I have taken examples of 

 it in every month of the year, the specimens captured 

 during the winter months being, as they also were in 



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