1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETCi 603 



collector has brought in from captures at this place (Kurrachee) ; 

 it is of course only a very slight sketch. The life of a Chief Com- 

 missariat Officer at the base of war operations has not much leisure 

 in it. I have had to keep the army of Southern Afghanistan supplied 

 with pretty well every thing .... It has therefore only been at odd 

 hours, when every one else was sleeping, that I have been able to 

 take occasional notes." 



The second consignment consisted of a single small box forwarded 

 on the 12th August, and followed by a letter dated from Quetta 

 3rd September, 1880, in which Major Swinhoe says: — "I rode 

 up the Bolan 100 odd miles in five days. The heat at Sibi and at 

 the first two stages was intense ; but we began to ascend rapidly 

 before reaching Mach, when we got out of the heat, and at Dusht, 

 6000 feet above sea-level, it was dreadfully cold at night, to me 

 especially, just coming out of the intense heat of the Sind post. 

 You descend again a thousand feet on reaching Quetta. 



" I have, as usual, been collecting everywhere. I have my collector 

 with me, who hunts every day ; and after my day's work is done I 

 sort the good out of the rubbish, and put them carefully away with 

 the dates attached to the examples ; and my friends returning sick 

 or on duty to Kurrachee take them to my wife there, who knows 

 how to take care of them until my return. I hope I shall have a 

 nice report to make to the. British Museum when I return, and 

 send you a fine collection of examples ; but indeed both in Birds 

 and Butterflies there is not much new ; most are European species " '. 



The following is a list of the species ! — 



Rhopalocera. 

 Nymphalid^. 



EuPLCEIN.^. 



1. EuplceA vermiculata (No. 1). 



Euplcea vermiculata, Butler, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 2/6. 



Mussoorie (one specimen). 



Major Swinhoe says that the allied E. core is " taken at Hydra- 

 bad, Sind ; said to be occasionally taken at Kurrachee — not found 

 here by me : " he also applies the same observation to Danais 

 limniace ' and Melanitis ismene. 



2. Parantica nilgiriensis (No. 2). 



Danais nilgii-iensis, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx* 

 p. 44(1877). 



One female specimen. Neilgherries. 



3. Parantica aglea (No. 3). 



Papilio aglea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 377. f. E (1782). 

 One male from Belgaum. 



* My report on Captain Eoberts's collection Las shown that the Lepidoptera 

 are rather Persian than European species, although allied to European forms. 

 2 Tirumala limniace, Moore. 



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