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28. CyrEsTIS GANESCHA. 
Amathusia ganescha (part.), Kollar in Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 430, 
pl. 7. figs. 3, 4 (1848). 
3, Murree, 9th August, 1885. 
“Rare, only three specimens taken ; probably not more than four 
specimens seen in all.”’—J. W. Y¥. 
Kollar apparently regarded C. thyodamas as the other sex of this 
species, and in this error he has been largely followed. If it proves 
to be a seasonal form or dimorphic representative of that species, it 
will indicate a similar condition of things as probably existing 
between C. lutea and C. nivea of Java, which differ precisely in the 
same way, although in a more marked degree. 
C. thyodamas is a white species compared with CO. ganescha ; the 
apical area of its primaries is always suffused with blackish, which 
has the effect of a quadrate apical patch ; this character does not 
appear in Kollar’s figure, which is evidently taken from what I (on 
that account) regard as typical C. ganescha—the more or less 
yellow-tinted form ; but in the description—‘‘ Vor dem Aussenrande 
ist das Feld ausserhalb der fiinften Linie mehr oder weniger schwarz 
getriibt ’’—it is evident that both types are included; and the remark, 
“between male and female I find no other difference than that in 
the latter the marking is more lively and intense,” shows that 
CO. thyodamas was supposed to be the female, whereas this sex seems 
to be very much rarer than the male in either of the Indian forms. 
ERYCINID. 
LiBYTHEINZ. 
29. LisYTHEA LEPITA. 
Libythea lepita, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co. Mus. i. p. 240. n. 519 
(1857). 
3 2, 2nd, 12th, 16th, and 23rd August, and 8th September, 1885; 
9 , Lumbahdun, 27th November. 
3 var. (without hatchet-like termination to discoidal streak), 
Thundiani, 24th September. 
“Common at Murree in August and September. Only two 
specimens of this Butterfly were taken in the neighbourhood of 
Campbellpore—one near Lawrencepore 22nd November, and one at 
Lumbahdun in the Chittar Pahar, 27th November.”—J. W. I. 
Major Yerbury appears to think that L. myrrha exists in bis series 
of this species; the latter, however, is easily recognized by the un- 
broken tawny stripe on the primaries, intersected by the median 
vein and its two first branches, and by the larger, entirely tawny, sub- 
apical spots ; the direction of the tawny stripe on the secondaries 
differs a little, and it is longer and not zigzag along its outer edge. 
No lepidopterist possessing examples of the two species could possibly 
confound them. 
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