138 Mr. A. (t. Butler on Lepidoptera 



Nymphalin^. 



17. Melitcea persea. 



Melitcna persea, Kollar, Denksclir. Akad. Wien, Math.-nat. CI. i. p. 62. 

 n. 6 (1850). 



Campbellpore, 23rd and 25tli March, 1st April, and 16th 

 May, 1886. 



The whole of the specimens are typical M. persea, and 

 therefore perfectly distinct from the Afghan M. Mohertsii, 

 with which Mr. De Nicdville continues to confound it. Major 

 Yerbury says that it was " not uncommon round Campbell- 

 pore in June 1885 and again in March 1886 ; the spring 

 brood seemed to be larger, darker-coloured, and with the base 

 of the wings invaded with dusky : common also at Attock 

 and Khairabad." In the specimens now forwarded I note 

 that those taken in March are darker but scarcely larger than 

 those obtained in May, but the one specimen taken in April 

 is unusually large, though not darker ; it is a female. Of 

 the two specimens taken near Attock Bridge in November 

 and lecorded in my former paper, one is much larger and 

 slightly darker than the other, so that the specimens sent us 

 by Major Yerbury u)) to the present time hardly bear out his 

 views ; at the same time he is in a far better position to form 

 an opinion upon the matter than I am, and therefore I do not 

 call in question the general accuracy of his distinctions, 

 whilst pointing out that they are by no means constant. 



18. Argynnis isscea. 



Aryytmis isscea, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co. Mus. i. p. 156. n. 323 (1857). 



^ ? (in coitil). Thundiani, 11th August; ^. 15th 

 August, 1886. 



" Common on Murree and Thundiani ; some of the speci- 

 mens taken in the latter place have the black markings both 

 on the fore and hind wings confluent, forming almost mela- 

 noid varieties." — J. W. Y. 



19. Argynnis kamala. 



Argynnis kaviala, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co. Mus. i. p. 156. n. 324 

 (1857). 



Two females. Thundiani, 13th, 18th, and 20th August, 

 and 9th October, 1886. 



So far Major Yerbury has only sent us females of this 

 species, and, irom a note which he appends to the number in 

 his MS., it would seem that the male is unknown to him; 



