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" The Butterflies of India " is really only the female of M. aswa. We 

 have long had this form in our collection as the rainy-season form of 

 the M. duryodana of the a Butterflies of India " {nee Felder), which 

 Mr. Moore has recently shown to be the female of M. beta (= M. aswa 

 dry-season form). 



Not much in the Nymphalince calls for comment, except that, on Plate 

 XXV, Mr. Leech appears to have figured a specimen of Symbrenthia 

 hippoclus in mistake for S. asthala, the latter belonging to the S. hypselis 

 group which has the underside tessellated with black. It is not quite 

 clear wiry Mr. Leech adopts the name Neptis eurynome, Westwood, in 

 preference to N. leucothoe, Cramer, which has priority, but which Mr. 

 Leech sinks as a synonym. This species is the one that is known to 

 Indian Lepidopterists under some eight or ten names, of which 

 N c varmona, Moore, is the least fictitious. 



In the Pierince the synonymy given by Mr. Leech is very voluminous, 

 but we doubt if he is correct in all instances, especially in the genera 

 Terias and Pieris. We notice that Mr. Leech has followed Cramer 

 in his erroneous sexing of Tachyris paulina, and that he describes 

 the female of this species as a male. 



Mr. Leech seems to have devoted a considerable amount of attention 

 to the Eesperiidce, of which family he figures many species and notes 

 some new synonymy. We do not, however, think that he has succeeded 

 in every instance in assigning species to their correct genera, e.g. % 

 Notocrypta goto, Mabille, and Notocrypta tibetana, Mabille, both cer- 

 tainly belong to Celcenorrhinus, and the former appears to be identical 

 with Celosnorrhinus asmara, Butler ; Hidari grandis, Leech, is Erionota 

 acroleuca, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, a species which has been 

 named by at least six authors. Padraona trimacula^ Leech, Aeromachus 

 delai-lama, Mabille, and A. nanus, Leech, are all certainly nearer to 

 Ampittia than to the genera in which they are placed. Rhopalocampla 

 translucida, Leech, has certainly nothing to do with Rhopalocampta, 

 but belongs to a genus closely allied to if not identical with Pisola ; 

 and it is almost certain that Celcenorrhinus omeia^ Leech, is a female 

 not only of the same genus but of the same species as translucida. 



We do not like the continual use of the word " var." throughout the 

 work, generally with the meaning of a local race ; but also used for 

 seasonal forms and casual varieties. In our opinion the term " var." 



