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whiter tint of the under surface and the arrangement of the spots in 

 the transverse series across the disk of primaries, which are placed end 

 to end in a straight line instead of angle to angle ; this arrangement 

 brings the last of the series much nearer to the external angle. 



" Common in December, but one or two found in October, No- 

 vember, and January." — C. S. 



What I can only regard as a dwarfed form of this species occurs 

 commonly at Mhow in December and January. Colonel Swinhoe, 

 however, goes further than I do, and thinks that this and other allied 

 forms are all seasonal varieties of C. cnejus; he probably means 

 C. patala, since C. cnejus has the spots across the disk of primaries 

 below arranged angle to angle as in C. ella. Colonel Swinhoe further 

 remarks that this small form (of C. hapalina) is as beautifully 

 coloured as my C. contracta ; and observes, " Certainly the C. con- 

 tracta from Madras are really very beautifully coloured ; but tlien, 

 again, the most beautifully coloured cnejus come from Madras also — 

 a moist part of India where all bluish-coloured Butterflies are very 

 beautiful." 



C. contracta, so far as my knowledge goes, is confined to Candahar : 

 the uuder-surface markings are different in character from those of 

 either the C. patala or C. cnejus groups ; the spots of the discal series 

 form a broken line, the upper part regular, the lower irregular. 

 Unless such differences are admitted as of specific value, many of 

 the best-established and hitherto universally admitted species will 

 have to be united — an action to which few, if any, careful students 

 of the Lepidoptera will give their sanction. 



16. Catochrysops ubaldus. 



Papilio ubaldus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 390. f. L, M (1782). 

 Mhow, October and November 1881. 



" Scarce here ; one taken in September, two in October, and one 

 in November." — C. S. 



17. Zizera pygm^a. 



Lycana pygmcea, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xix. pi. 7. fig. 3 

 (1876). 



Mhow, November 1881. 



"An uncommon Lyccena here; one taken in October, four in 

 November, and three in December. "^ — C. S. 



18. Zizera indica. 



Lyccena indica, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 52.5, pi. 10. 

 figs. 2, 3. 



Mhow, December 1881 and January 1882. 



Colonel Swinhoe separates this into two forms, between which, 

 however, I fail to see any constant difference. The species is very 

 close to Lyccena karsandra, of which I think it possible that it may 

 be only a variety ; the ocellated marginal series of dusky spots on the 

 under surface of the secondaries, however, are less defined than in 

 L. karsandra. Of the first series of specimens Colonel Swinhoe 



