602 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [May 3, 



191. PODICEPS MINOR. 



Podiceps minor {Lma.'), Fiiiscli & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 811; 

 Fischer, J. f. O. 1880, p. 188. 



Colymbus minor, Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1878, p. 247; 

 Fischer, J.f.O. 1879, p. 297. 



Pangani. 



This species is to be found throughout the whole of the Ethiopian 

 Region. 



192. Thalacrocorax africanus. 



Graculus africanus (Gm.), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 847; 

 Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1878, p. 247; Fischer, toni. cit. 

 p. 295. 



Usamhara hills. 



The range of this species is probably the entire Ethiopian Region 

 south of 30° N. lat. ; for it is not uncommon on Lake Fayoom near 

 Cairo ; but its northern limits on the west coast are not yet so well 

 defined. 



7. Ou a Collection of Lepidoptera from Western India^ Be- 

 loochistan, and Afghanistan. By Arthur G. ButleRj 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. _ Assistant Keeper, Zoological De- 

 partment, British Museum. 



[Received March 28, 1881.] 



The collection, of which the following is an account, was received 

 last year, in two consignments, from Major Charles Swinhoe. The 

 first of these was accompanied by a letter dated from Kurrachee 

 1st May, 1880, in which Major Swinhoe says : — "I send you by this 

 mail another small collection of Lepidoptera in three small boxes. . 



I am afraid there is not much in it you will care for. I 



have several boxes full of Butterflies and Moths in paper envelopes, 

 but cannot find time to sort them. Mr. Murray, the Curator of 

 the Kurrachee Museum, has gone to Kandahar at his and my ex- 

 pense ; and when happier times come I will send you his Afghan 

 collections. One small box I have looked into is very much like n 

 collection from England would be, or rather, I should say, from 

 Europe ; it contained Pieris rupee, P. mesentina, Colias chryso- 

 thenie \ Pieris daplidice, Lycana cyllarus, one pair of Nymphalidfe 

 I don't know, Deiopeia pulchella, and Grammodes stolida : I hope 

 the others will show a greater variety. Mr. Murray's tour will 

 extend over three months ; and therefore his notes and his collection 

 should be valuable ; but I am afraid that he will not be able to get 

 beyond Khelat i Gilgai. 



" I send you a few notes made during the past year of what my 



'■ By this is intended C. crate ; some of the others, as L. cyllarus, are doubt- 

 less identified from memory. 



