LIST OF THE BOMBAY BUTTERFLIES IN THE SOCIETY^ COLLECTIONS. 35 



the 6th and 7th small and about one-fourth the size of the 8th. 10 

 lower labials. 30 series of scales round the neck. Scales of the body 

 keeled. Ventrals 230, the 1st separated from the posterior pair of 

 chin shields- by 4 scales only. First six ventrals wider than high, 

 and four times as wide as the adjoining scales, the rest decreasing 

 in size from three times the size of the adjoining scales till at four- 

 fifths the length they are scarcely larger than the adjoining series. 



Colours. — Plumbeous dorsally on the upper third, with faint dark 

 brown cross bars, of which there are 32 on the trunk and 2 on the 

 tail. Scales above and below the tail, and on the half of its terminal 

 length black with some white scales intermixed on the latter. Sides 

 and abdomen white, with faint indications of the dorsal bands 

 running down on the sides. Upper and lower labials also the 

 rostral, mental and chin shields of a salmon colour ; a faint dark streak 

 in front of the eye, and a salmon-coloured spot on each side behind 

 the gape. 



Hab. — The Mekran Coast. Both this and the preceding (H. 

 guttata) were collected by Capt. E. Bishop of the I. G. S. Patrick 

 Stewart. 



A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE BOMBAY 

 PRESIDENCY IN THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION. 



V/ith Notes by E. H. Aitken. 

 {Continued from page 218, Vol. I.) 

 Papilionince. 

 73. Omithoptera minos. — Athough there is no specimen of this 

 butterfly in the collection on which these notes are based, I will 

 include it here, having known three instances of its occurrence in 

 the region with which they deal. On the 5th of June 1873, I caught 

 a fine female in Poonaand on the same date six years after I saw 

 one at Karanja. In the interval'the Rev. Dr. Fairbank had taken 

 one, also a female, in his garden at Ahmednugger. For an insect 

 with such powers of sustained flight a journey of a few hundred 

 miles, with the wind, must be a small matter, and I imagine these 

 specimens drifted from the Canarese or Malabar Coast, among the 

 beautiful backwaters of which the species is so abundant that a 

 Collector in Calicut told me he slew every one that came within his 

 reach, regarding them as a nuisance. I felt sorry for the victims, 

 but more so for their murderer. 



