from North'ivest India. 141 



If any of the Asiatic or North- American forms above 

 recorded are to be considered conspecific with V. c-album there 

 is no reason why the whole 164 examples enumerated here 

 should not be equally regarded as varieties of one species. 

 My view of a true variety is that it is a sport, either individual 

 or often recurring, but never necessarily reproducing itself in 

 the next generation ; thus the white females of Golias or the 

 dark females of Argynnis are true varieties 5 but to speak of 

 a fixed local fovm as a variety appears to me to be wholly 

 incorrect ; indeed, my expressed opinion that local forms are 

 the highest type of existing species in the Lepidoptera, can 

 never be disproved until the whole world has been collected 

 over, whilst every collection which arrives goes to strengthen it. 



Major Yerbury says that he met with a few specimens of 

 V. agnicula on Thundiani in August and September 1886, 

 and that it " affects yarrow and ragwort (?)." 



26. Junonia asterie. 



Papilio asterie, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 769. n. i'i'6 (17G7). 



cJ. Khairabad, 18th April; S ?• 23rd May, 25th July; 

 (^ . Campbellpore, 8th May ; ? . Hassan Abdal, 9tli May, 

 1886. 



Major Yerbury thinks with Mr. De N iceville that J. almana 

 is the cold-weather form of this species ,• bat from what I can 

 learn the idea of its being a form at all of J. asterie (an idea 

 which I never for a moment entertained) is likely to be deti- 

 nitely disproved ; even in the collection now before me I see 

 that one of the two specimens oiJ, almana was taken in May ; 

 indeed, 1 do not remember to have received a collection from 

 any part of India in which both species occurred, but they 

 Avere taken at the same time, often on the same day : as to 

 their being varieties, the totally different form of the wings 

 renders this highly improbable. We have an enormous series 

 of both species, but nothing intermediate between them. 



Major Yerbury says that he obtained a few specimens of 

 J. asterie at Campbellpore in July, but that it was very 

 common at Khairabad and Hassan Abdal in June and July. 

 Among the specimens brought home in papers is one taken at 

 Kala i'ani on the oOth August, 



27. Junonia almana. 



Papilio almana, Linnoeus, Miis. Lud. Ulr. p. 272 (1704). 



Attock, 2nd May; Hurripur, 14th October, 1886. 

 "Common roUnd Campbellpore in the cold weather j also 



