1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC. 605 



pectus whitish, legs flesh-coloiived. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 7 lines. 



One specimen. Neilgherries. Mr. Moore has examples, appa- 

 rently referable to this species, in his collection from the Neilgherries. 



9. Messaras erymanthis (No. 2). 



Papilio erymanthis, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. 1. pi. 15. figs. 3, 4 

 (1773). 



One specimen. Neilgherries. 



10. Hypanis polinice (No. 5). 



Papilio polinice, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 375. f. G, H (1782) 

 One specimen. Neilgherries. 



11. MeLIT^EA ROBERTSII (No. 7). 



Melitcea robertsii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 406, pi. 39. fig. 2. 

 One specimen. Chaman, South Afghanistan, May 1880. 



Morphine. 



12. DiSCOPHORA TULLIA (No. 4). 



Papilio tullia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 8 1 . f. A, B (1 779). 

 One female specimen. " North India.' 



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LyCjENID^. 



13. Curetis PH^DRtrs (No. 2). 



Papilio j)hceclr us, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 125 (1781). 

 One female. Neilgherries. 



14. POLYOMMATUS BiETICUS. 



Papilio bceiicus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 789 (1766). 

 Seven specimens. Kurrachee, May and June, 1879. 

 Major Swinhoe says that this species is very common in January, 

 April, May, and July. 



15. Catochrysops cnejus. 



Hesperia cnejus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 430 (1/98). 



Two males. Kurrachee, October 1879. 



With this species were two smaller LyccencB which agree fairly 

 well with C. contractu, and must I think be slight variations of that 

 species ; but Major Swinhoe seems to regard them as a seasonal 

 variety of L. cnejus. He says : — "The September brood taken here, 

 at the Hubb river, and in the Mulleer, all within a radius of 20 

 miles from Kurrachee, is more than double the size of those taken 

 in the spring and summer — the former having an expanse of I5 

 inch, while the others .nre barely 10 lines, the difference every way 

 in size being quite remarkable, whereas in every other respect the 

 examples are identical." 



Of the four specimens now sent as 0, cnejus, two are typical apd 



