from North-west India. 145 



well-defined dusky markings on the primaries, whereas P. rama 

 is of a rosy lilac colour, indistinctly banded with bronze- 

 brown. 



38, Panchala rama. 



Thecla rama, Kollar, in Iliigel's Kasclimir, iv. 2, p. 413, pi. iv. figs. 1, 2 

 (1848). 



$ . Thundiani, 12th September, 10th October ; Bava 

 Gulley, 29th September, 1886. 



The males are larger than the females and have a narrower 

 black border to tlae primaries. This and the preceding are 

 both common species. 



39. Poli/ommatus bceticus. 



Papilio hesticus, Linnaeus, Sjst. Nat. i. 2, p. 789. n. 226 (1767). 



(^ (dwaifed, with broad border to primaries above). Cauip- 

 bellpore, 2nd June; ?. 19th July; (^ . Thundiani, 13th 

 August, 1886. 



40. Catochrysops cnejus. 

 Hesperia cnejus, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. Suppl. p. 430 (1798). 



^ ?. Campbellpore, 2nd June; Hassan Abdal, 18th 

 July ; ? • Thundiani, 3rd September ; (J ? . Nandar, 25tli 

 September ; ^ . Hurripur, 13th October, 1886. 



" Common round Campbellpore." — J. W. Y. 



41. Catochrysops hapalina. 



Catochrysops hapalina, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 188-3, p. 148, pi. xxiv. 

 figs. 2, 3. 



$. Khairabad, 11th April ; ?. Campbellpore, 1 1th Sep- 

 tember ; (J $ . Hurripur, 14th October ; $ . Campbellpore, 

 21st October, 1886. 



'^ Catochrysojys strabo, De N. Common on babul-bushes 

 (Acacia arahica) near Campbellpore in October 1885." — 

 J. W. Y. 



G. strabo of Fabricius is one of the commonest Indian 

 Lyccence and closely resembles G. lithargyria of Moore, 

 excepting in its lilac instead of silvery blue upper surface. It 

 varies considerably in size, but many of the specimens are 

 almost twice as large as G. hapalina, and all of them are 

 totally unlike it in the pattern of the under surface. 



One of the males (11th April) and one of the females (14th 

 October) Avere labelled as G. ella, but erroneously ; the latter 

 is a brilliantly blue species, with a broad black border to the 

 primaries in the male; it can readily be recognized from its 



