810 BR. A. Q. BTTTLEE OX [June 20, 



10. On a small Collection of Butterflies sent by Lieut. -Col. 

 A. S. G. Jayakar, A.M.S., from Muscat. By Arthur 

 G. Butler/pIi.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Received June 19, 1899.] 



Eor some years past the collections in the British Museum have 

 been enriched through the zeal of our Corresponding Member, 

 Dr. Jayakar ; but, until the ai'rival of the last consignment, no 

 Lepidoptera have come to hand : in this one, hovrever, several 

 small packets were included, amongst which were examples of 

 nineteen species of Butterflies. 



As our knowledge of the fauna of Arabia is still far from 

 complete, it seems worth while to publish a list of the Butterflies 

 now sent. 



Of the nineteen species of which examples were obtained by 

 Dr. Jayakar, six have a wide I'ange both in Asia and Africa, three 

 extend from Arabia through Persia to N.W. India, one is a widely 

 distributed Asiatic form, one occurs in Asia Minor, and eight are 

 common to Arabia and Africa, several of these ranging through 

 East Africa to the Cape. 



XYMPHALIDiE. 



1. Limn AS chrysippus. 



Papilio clirysippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 263 (1764). 

 Both sexes were obtained. 



2. Tpthima asteeope. 



Hipparchia asterope, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. xxix. figs, 11-14 

 (1832). 



A female and four males. 



This butterfly would seem to be conuuou throughout Arabia 

 wherever insect-life is possible ; it also occurs in N.E. Africa. 



3. Htpoltmnas misippus. 



Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 264 (1764), 



A series of worn specimens in both sexes. 



The extensive range of this butterfly is well known. 



4. JUNONIA SWINHOEI. 



Junonia swinhoei, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xvi. 

 p. 309 (1885). 



Two worn females. 



These examples are referable rather to the Indian species than 

 to J. here (found at Aden). 



LyCjENID^. 



5. Catochrysops contracta. 



Lampides coniracta, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 406, pi. xxxix. fig. 3. 

 Three males of this Indiau species which I originally described 



