Papitio polydecta of Cramer. 89 



female, 1867) must now be considered to be but a local 

 variety (if even that) of M. mineus, Linnaeus, as pointed 

 out by Mr. Distant in his ' Ehopalocera Malay ana/ 

 p. 51 ; as also the specimens identified by Mr. Moore 

 as varieties of polydecta, and described in the ' Butterflies 

 of India,' p. 119, n. 98 ; but Major Marshall and I 

 therein correctly expressed our oj)inion that they 

 " appear to us to be varieties of mineus rather than 

 of polydecta." 



Note by W. L. Distant. 



Our colleague, Mr. de Niceville, having presented this 

 note to the Society through my hands, I take the oppor- 

 tunity to make a few remarks on a species of Indian 

 Satyridce belonging to the genus Ypthima; the accom- 

 panying plate affording an opportunity to give additional 

 figures. 



In 1882 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. x., p. 406) 

 I described an Indian Satyrid (captured by our member, 

 Mr. F. E. Eobinson) under the name of Ypthima Rohin- 

 soni. In their ' Butt. Ind. Burm. and Ceyl.,' p. 230, 

 Messrs. Marshall and de Niceville truly remarked that 

 the species was probably synonymic with Y. Yphthimoides, 

 Moore. I can only plead, in justification of renaming the 

 species of my friend Mr. Moore, that before doing so, and 

 after having worked out the other species of the genus, 

 I submitted the typical specimens to his examination, 

 and he failed to recognise that it was the species he had 

 described in error under the genus Callerehia. I now 

 figure it to prevent further confusion, and the synonymy 

 will therefore stand thus : — 



Ypthima Yphthimoides. (PI. III., fig. 4). 



Callerehia Yphthimoides, Mooie, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



1881, p. 307. 

 Ypthima Yphthimoides, Marsh. & de Nic, Butt. Ind. 



Burm. & Ceyl., p. 230, n. 221 (1883). 

 Ypthima Rohinsoni, Dist., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 



vol. X., p. 406 (1882) ; Marsh. & de Nic, Butt. 



Ind. Burm. & Ceyl., p. 229, n. 220 (1883). 



At the time of redescribing the above I described a 

 species of the Oriental and Ethiopian genus Melanitis 



