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in the year 1896 in Vol. X, page 237, again at page 372, further at page 568 

 and finished in Vol. XI, page 22 in the following year. The part deahng with 

 the Skippers is this last and it is accompanied by some coloured plates of larvae 

 and pupae. 



There are about 2^350 species of Hesperiidoe known to exist in the whole world 

 to-day according to Seitz's great work, the Macrohpidoptera of the World of which 

 some 1,000 species are American, 350 African, 200 Palaearctic and 800 Oriental. 

 Swinhoe enumerates 761 species from the Oriental Region, excluding Australia 

 and, of these, 283 are purely Indian, by which he understands India, Burma, 

 Ceylon and the Andaman Islands. These belong to 88 genera which he groups 

 into 12 sub-families. These twelve sub-families have been above shown to be 

 reducible tolO. 



Out of the 283 species only 62 come into the present papers as butterflies of 

 the Plains and Bombay Hill Stations. All but seven of these have been bred, 

 their transformations and hfe-histories being carefully noted. Those still remain- 

 ing to be studied are Daimio milliana, Swinh., a single specimen of which was 

 9aught on the Ghats in the Kanara District of Bombay in the monsoon at a place 

 called Anshi and Zogmphetus ^gygia, (Hewits.) of which, similarly, only a single 

 individual was taken near the sea-coast; Corone (Telicotu) palmarum, Swinh., 

 Telicota augias, (Linn.), Arnetta vindhia7ia, (Moore), insects of the drier parts ot 

 the country; and Stmskis bipimctus, (Swinh.), A\hich was also once caught in 

 Kanara. This makes six, but the larva of Corone palmarum has really been 

 recorded once as feeding on Date Palm although no descriptions or drawings 

 were seemingly ke]}t(Indian Museum Notes, Vol. V Xo. 3, p. 126, pi. IX) asonlv 

 the male and female insects are there figured. Similarly the larva of Rhopal- 

 ocampta benjamini, (Guerin), is known to feed upon Meliosma 2)ungens, Wall, 

 and Sabia campaiudata Wall. (Family Sabiacece) in the Himalayas as dis- 

 covered by de Rhe-Philipe at Dehra Dun who figured the larvae and pupa but 

 apparently wrote no descriptions (J., B. N. H. S., Vol. XT, 1898, page 602, pi. 

 W, figs. 30, 30b larvae ; 30c pupa). A list of the 62 species is subjoined, those 

 still requiring attention being marked with an asterisk (*)• 



Celcenorrhimis ambareesa, (M..) Hasora badra,M. 



leucocera, (Koll.) chabrona, Plotz. 



area, (Pliitz.) alexis, M. 



Satarupa milliana, Swinh. ( =Parata) 



( =Daimio) biiileri, Auriviilius. 



Tagiades obscurus, Mabille. ( ^Parata) 



litigiosa, Moschler. Bibasis sena, M. 



Odontoptilum angulatuvi, M. Badamia exclamationis, (Linn.) 



Abaratha ransonnettii, Feldcr. Bhopalocampta benjamini, Guerin. 



Coladenia indrani, M. Plastingia submaculata, Staud. 



Sarangesa dan, (Fabr.) Suastus gremius, Fabr. 



dasahara, M. bipunctus, Swinh. 



purendra, M. Arnetta vindhiana, (M.) 



Tapena thwaitesi, M. ogygia, Hewits. 



Hesperia galba, Fabr. Gangara thyrsis, Fabr. 



( ^=^Spialia) Matapa aria, M. 

 Oomalia albofasciata. M. 

 Ismene fergussoni, deN. 

 ( =Gecana) 



gomata, M. 

 ( =Burara) 



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