1884.] ON LEPIDOPTKRA FROM KURRACHEE. 503 



at the end of the cell ; secondaries, thorax, and abdomen pale 

 shining stramineous ; head pure white ; antennae brownish ; pri- 

 maries below and pectus golden or bronzy-greyish without definite 

 markings ; venter and secondaries pale shining stramineous. Expanse 

 of wings 19 millim. 



Aden (Yerbury and Swinhoe). 



Col. Swinhoe's specimen, though recognizable, is a good deal injured 

 by being in spirit. 



2. On Lepidoptera collected at Kiirrachee. 

 By Lieut.-Col. C. Swinhoe, F.L.S., E.Z.S. 



[Received October 4, 1884.] 

 (Plates XLVII.-XLVIII.) 



Kurrachee does not afford a large field for the collection of 

 Lepidoptera ; its main features are sea, sand, and salt soil ; the entire 

 sea-coast of Sind, right up to Soumiani, the ancient seaport of 

 Beloochistan, is a mere reclamation from the sea caused by the scour 

 of the great river Indus, and has, besides babul trees {Acacia 

 arabicu), mimosa bushes, and the rank growth peculiar to sea-mud, 

 no vegetation whatever, and even for many miles inland there is 

 little but Babul and Euphorbia-bushes. In some years when rain 

 falls, the grass springs up in the valleys, and some attempt at 

 cultivation is made by the people ; but during the time I remained 

 at Kurrachee, from December 1878 up to August 1880, no rain 

 whatever fell, and though I had a trained native collector with me 

 the whole time, who collected regularly every day, the following is 

 but a meagre list compared to what it would be for the same length 

 of time in any other part of India. 



The Lepidoptera of Kurrachee are, however, very interesting, more 

 especially with reference to the Teracoli, many different and 

 distinct species from widely ranging localities appearing to meet 

 there. 



Heavy rain fell at Kurrachee in the summer of 1882 and I 

 employed a native collector there for some months, through the kind 

 assistance of Mr. Murray, the Curator of the Municipal Museum, 

 who dated and sent me the collections, and these collections contained, 

 as will be seen, several species not observed during the years when 

 no rain fell. 



RHOPALOCERA. 



Nymphalid^e. 



euplcein^e. 



1. TlRUMALA LIMNIACE. 



Pap. limniace, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59. f. D, E (1779). 

 At Kurrachee, in July 1882, after the unusually heavy rain of the 

 summer of that year ; is not usually found at Kurrachee or along the 



