206 Mr. A. G. Butler on Lepidoptera 



Nevertheless Major Yerbury has only brought home one 

 perfect and three or four mutilated examples ; probably he 

 was too generous to entomologists in India to leave many of 

 so attractive a butterfly to add to our series *. In England 

 P. arcturus is generally accounted rather a rare species. 



96. Papilio polyctor. 



Papilio polyctor, Boisduval, Sp. G^n. Lep. i. p. 205. n. 18 (1836). 



Kala Pani, 1st September, 1886. 



" Taken at Murree and Thundiani. In my opinion P. arc- 

 turus frequents the upper part of the hill, P. polyctor the lower 

 slopes ; one of these species, probably the latter, very common 

 on the stream near the Dhobis ghat, Abbottabad." — J. W. Y. 



In Major Yerbury's boxes I found one example of Papilio 

 cloanthus taken at Murree on the 30th August, 1885 ; P. 

 philoxenus^ taken at Murree on the 5th August. Among the 

 unset things I found P. dissimilis, from Noor Poor Shahan, 

 Rawul Pindee, on the 10th April ; P. govindra^ taken on 

 Thundiani, 4th May ; and P. pammorij at Hurripur, on the 

 14th October, 1886. 



Hesperiidae. 



97. Hesperia ladon. 



Papilio ladon, Cramer, Pap, Exot. iii. pi. cclxxxiv. G (1782). 



Thundiani, 23rd September, 1885. 



Only one example was obtained ; it was identified as 

 " Badamia exclamationis^'' a nearly allied but apparently 

 distinct butterfly, which will probably be stated to be a 

 seasonal form of it. 



98. Hesperia alexis. 



Papilio alexis, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 533. n. 387 (1775). 

 J . Tret, 9th October, 1885. 



99. Parnara mangala. 

 Hesperia mangala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18(35, p. 792. 



Murree, 10th September, 1885 ; Thundiani, 17th and 20th 

 August and 20th and 30th September, 1886. 



This species has been identified for Major Yerbury as Par- 

 nara hada^ from which it may easily be distinguished by its 

 superior size, darker coloration, larger hyaline spots, particu- 



« See, however, the note to P. polyctor, which leaves it doubtful which 

 is the common species. 



