1886.] COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF MHOW 421 



1. On the Lepidoptera of Mhow, in Central India. 

 By Colonel C. Swinhoe, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived June 3, 1886.] 

 (Plates XL. & XLI.) 



I collected Lepidoptera at Mhow from September 1881 until 

 August 1882, with the assistance of a trained native, whose captures 

 were daily recorded. My miUtary duties kept me well employed, and 

 as I also collected birds and took notes on them during the whole of 

 this period, the results of which have since appeared in ' The Ibis,' I 

 had not much time to give to the study of Lepidoptera ; and therefore 

 this paper only professes to contain a list of Lepidoptera taken in 

 Mhow and its immediate neighbourhood for a year, vidth the addition 

 of a few taken by my subordinates at the sub-stations of Neemuch 

 and Assirghur. 



I am indebted to Lord Walsingham for working out the specimens 

 of Tortricidae and Tineina. 



Types of all the new species mentioned in this paper have been 

 presented by me, as usual, to the British Museum. 



I. RHOPALOCERA. 

 Nymphalid^. 



EuPLCEIN^. 



1. TlRXJMALA LIMNIACE. 



Pap. limniace, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59. f. D, E (1775). 

 Common from September to July. 



2. Salatura genxjtia. 



Pap. genutia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 206. f. C, D (1779). 

 Common from September to July. 



3. LiMNAS CHRYSIPPUS. 



Pap. chrysippus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 471 (1758). 

 Common everywhere from September to March 



4. LiMNAS ALCIPPOIDES. 



Limnas alcippoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238, pi. 31. f. I. 

 I took one example of this variety at Mhow in June 1882, and 

 one at Panghur near Neemuch in November 1884. 



5. Crastia core. 



Pap. core, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 266. f. E, F (1780). 

 March and June. Very plentiful in March ; only one example 

 taken in June. 



