MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 871 



No. XXVIII.— BUTTERFLIES OF THE KONKAN. 



By the time this note is published in the Journal most residents of 

 Bombay will probably have forgotten the heavy downpour of rain in the 

 forenoon of Sunday, 21st August 1910. Let it suffice therefore to say that 

 for an hour or so it was coming down about as hard as it could. At the 

 time it set in, I was in a steam launch with a friend lying off Sunk Rock 

 lighthouse in Bombay harbour with the intention of angling for our local 

 sporting fish, the Ravas (Polynemus plebeicus). The wind was blowing fresh 

 from W. N. W. Such are hardly the conditions or locality to encourage 

 one to anticipate observations on butterflies worth recording. In the thick 

 of the storm however and evidently with the hope of obtaining shelter, two 

 specimens hovered round the launch which I have never previously observ- 

 ed in Bombay Island. The first was an Arhopala, presumably amantes, and 

 apparently a more or less perfect specimen. The species is however known 

 in the hilly jungles of Thana and Oolaba Districts. Presently there appear- 

 ed a large and very battered butterfly that at once attracted my attention 

 as a stranger. It settled on the launch and I was then able to recognise 

 it as Parthenos virens. I tried to catch it in order to establish its identity 

 beyond all question of doubt, but it was restless and I failed. It is not 

 however a species there is any difficulty in recognising. This species in- 

 habits southern India as far north as Kanara and in our Journal (Vol. XV., 

 p. 48) Mr. E. H. Aitken and I recorded that he had once seen it at 

 Vingorla. 



E. COMBER. 

 Bombay, 28*A August 1910. 



No. XXIX.— BUTTERFLIES OF KUMAUN.— ADDENDUM. 



372. Parnassius epaphus, Oberthilr. 



Two males were brought in by a native catcher who accompanied Mr. S. 

 L. Whymper to the Niti Pass in June 1909, presumably taken at about 

 14,000 ft. 



In size and markings they resemble very closely race sikhimensis, Elwes, 

 as figured by Bingham (Vol. II., pi. XV) ; the two distal crimson spots on 

 the upperside of the forewing are, however, larger and fused into a short 

 bar. They have no resemblance to the forms nirius or cachemirensis as 

 figured by Dr. Seitz (Macrolepidoptera Palaearctica, plate 15). 



HESPERIID^E. 



373. Pamphita avanti, Moore. A single male from the Niti Pass, 15,000 

 feet, in July. 



