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patch of differently-formed scales on the npperside of the hind wing near 

 the base of the costa which is one of the characters of Mr. Doherty's sub- 

 genus Gharma,* of which Zojplioessa haladeva, Moore, is the type. The 

 name " Gharma " is very close to Gharmus, but has a different origin, 

 being that of a valley in Kumaon, I believe. 



3. Byblia ilithtia, Drury. 



Papilio ilithf/ia, Drnry, 111. Ex. Ins., vol. ii, p. 29, pi. xvii, figs. 1, 2, female (1773) ,• 

 Hypanis simplex, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 146, n. 7, pi. xxiv, fig, 8, 

 ? female. 



In " The Butterflies of India," vol. ii, p. 15, I admitted B. simplex, 

 Butler, as a species distinct from B. ilitJiyia, Drury, though I had not seen 

 a specimen, on the strength of Colonel Swinhoe's assurances that it is a 

 good species and his having recorded it from Poena, Mhow, Depalpore, 

 and Assirghur. He recorded IT. pollnice, Cramer (which is a synonym 

 of B. ilitlujia, Drury), also from Poena and Mhow, and identifies one of 

 my specimens from Depalpore as B. ilitJiyia, so that the two species occur 

 together in three out of the foar localities from which B. simplex has 

 been recorded. 



Not being able to identify B. simplex, I sent my entire collection 

 of specimens of this genus to Colonel Swinhoe, who has kindly 

 separated them into the two species, B. ilithyia and B. simplex. Of the 

 latter species he identifies five specimens, one from Bombay, two from 

 Poena, one from Sirur, and one from the Central Provinces. I find that 

 these five specimens show as much variation as do those in my long series 

 of B. ilithyia, and I cannot trace one single character running through 

 these five examples by which I can distinguish them from B. ilithyia, and I 

 do not know how Colonel Swinhoe identified them. The points of differ- 

 ence between the two species that I gave in the key to the genus in my 

 book are quite incorrect, having been taken solely from Mr. Butler's figure 

 of B. simplex, with which the specimens Colonel Swinhoe identifies 

 as such do not at all agree. Mr. Butler's description of B. simplex 

 is of little use to students in India, as he compares it to B. cora, 

 Feisthamel, an African species, which Mr. Trimen in his " South- African 

 Butterflies," vol. i, p. 264, gives as a synonym of B. ilithyia. In con- 

 clusion, I think that there is only one species of Byblia in India, which 

 stands as ilithyia, unless of course Colonel Swinhoe should have incorrectly 

 identified my specimens of B. simplex, in which case all his recorded loca- 

 lities for that species would probably also be wrong, but this is a very 

 unlikely contingency. 



* J, A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. ii, p. 117 (1886). 



