604 mr. a. g. butler on lepidoptera from [may 3, 



Nymphalin^. 



4. Hypolimnas misippus. 



Papilio misippus, Linneeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 291 (1764). 



6 Kurracbee (October, 18/9); $ Kurrachee (July, 1880); ? 

 Magar Pir, Sind. The females are both referable to the variety 

 H. dorippus of Klug. Major Swinhoe remarks of this species : — 

 " Common in September ; many of the females show great variety 

 in markings, some having the apical area very slightly marked with 

 the usual black markings ; common also in Hydrabad." 



H. bolina, L., is stated to be in the Kurrachee Museum, as taken 

 there. 



Of the Vanesscd (which are not represented in the collection) 

 Major Swinhoe forwards the following notes : — 



" Pyrameis cardiii, L., January, February, July, August, and 

 December. 



'■' Ju7ionia lemonias, L., in Kurrachee Museum as taken here; 

 J. anone, L., January to May, November and December, common ; 

 J. orithyia, L., April and May, not common ; /. asteria, L., 

 Hydrabad, Sind, one specimen taken at Kurrachee in N.W. ; 

 J. almana, L., January and November, not common." 



5. MODUZA PROCRIS (No. 1). 



Limenitis 2'>rocris, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 106. f . E, F (1779). 

 One example, but only labelled " N. India." 



6. Rahinda hordonia (No. 6). 



Papilio hordonia, StoU, Suppl. Cramer, pi. 33. f. 4, 4e?(I790). 

 One example, Neilgherries. 



7. PaRTHENOS VIRENS (No. 1)'. 



Parthenos virens, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. 

 p. 47 (1877). 



Two specimens, Neilgherries. 



8. CiRROCHROA SWINHOEI, Sp. U. (No. 3). 



5 . Allied to G. thais of Ceylon, but of a clear bright fulvous colour 

 above, almost as bright as in C. aoris and 0. mithila, the primaries 

 more falcate than in G. thais, the inner or discal zigzag line less 

 strongly defined and more completely separated into <-shaped 

 markings, the very irregular series just beyond the cell considerably 

 more slender, secondaries with all the markings less pronounced : 

 body considerably paler, the thorax pale greenish. Under surface 

 stone-colour, with greenish and flesh-coloured tints, the basal area 

 to the middle being flesh-coloured, the discal lines and outer borders 

 washed vvith pale olivaceous ; the band across the centre rather 

 paler than the ground-colour, but not white or silvery in the type 

 specimen ; a diifused double pearly white spot at apex of primaries ; 



1 " Cpithia No. 1," on label. 



