A LIST OF INDIAN BUTTERFLIES. 



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Genus. Sub-genus. 



Species. 



Race. 



LocalUij. Synonyms, &e. 



Notes. 



NYMPHALIDa; 

 — eontd. 



Nymphal iNJE—contd. 



Helitsea 

 — contd. 



(Melitaea) . didyma 



chitralensis, 

 M. 



Chit. 



trivia 



persea,Koll.. Bil.-Puuj. 



mixta, Ev. 



shandura, 

 Christ. 



Chit. 

 Chit. 



"dodgsoni, Gr. S. 

 robertsi, But. 



^yblia 

 ^rgolis 



seudergo ■ 

 lis. 



Wir 



sthoBia . . 



The small Melitaea found in N, 

 W. India, though variable, 

 should stand as persea : the 

 Chitral form.found at all eleva- 

 tions I call mixta, it is far more 

 variable and usually more 

 brightly coloured than persea. 

 As mixta and chitralensis fly 

 together and undoubtedly be- 

 long to separate species they 

 cannot both be races of didy- 

 ma. 



Some years ago I sent Col. Bin- 

 gham several specimens of a 

 Melitaea from Chitral which 

 he identified as saxatilis shan- 

 dura Christoph : similar speci- 

 mens have been arranged by 

 Elwes in the B.M. as maracan- 

 dica with a note "near fergha- 

 na.all are probably varieties 

 of saxatalis." Seitz make^ no 

 mention of shandura and I 

 have been unable to trace 

 Chriioph's description, but 

 as my specimens were caught 

 in the neighbourhood of the 

 Shandur Pass I presume that 

 they are identical with the 

 form described by Christoph. 



Bingham places Cethosia bet- 

 ween Cynthia and Atella: Seitz 

 puts it in a '-tribe" by itself, ot>. 

 Heliconidi after all the Nym- 

 phalidae Just before the Acrae- 

 idi ; it seems better placed 

 near the Acrajinse than any- 

 where else. 



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