12 L. de Niceville — Butterflies of the subgenus Tronga. [No. 1, 



Lophophorus refulgens. — The Monal Pheasant is fairly common in the 

 higher and wooded slopes of all the Dir and Swat valleys. It appears 

 to suffer from snow blindness, and is easily caught at such times. 

 Several live specimens have been brought to me from Dir, and one from 

 near Thana in Lower Swat. 



Circus cyaneus. — Hen Harrier. One specimen obtained from the 

 edge of tlie Peshawar plain, November, 1900. 



Duck and teal of man^'^ kinds pass through Swat and Dir on their 

 way to and from India in the autumn and spring. Quail and snipe also 

 pass through. I have never heard of Sand Grouse having been seen. 



The Chickor and Scarse are permanent residents and very common. 

 So also are the Grrey and Black Partridges. The Black Partridge only 

 frequent the lower ends of the valleys. The Grey extend further up 

 the valleys. 



Pisces. — The Panjkora and Swat rivers are full of fish, chiefly of the 

 kind commonly known as Snow Trout, which would appear to be a 

 species of Gyprininde. 



Mahaseer (Barbus tor) ascend both rivers in considerable numbers 

 in tlie spring, but very few remain during the Tvinter, as they nearly all 

 descend again to the Cabul river in the late autumn. Mahaseer up to 

 30 lbs. have been obtained in the lower reaches of the Panjkora and 

 Swat rivers. 



III.— ^o'i^e on- the -Butterflies cortvprised in the subgenus Tronga of the 

 genus Euploea.— B^/ Lionel de Niceville, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[ Received March 15th ; Read April 3rd, 1901. ] 



' In the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1892, pp. 158- 

 161, will be found a note by me on the Indian and Malayan Peninsula 

 Butterflies of the subgenus Stictoploea of the genus Euploea. In the 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1892, pp. 247-248, is practically a resume of 

 this paper. In the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. Ixi, 

 pt. 2, pp. 237-245 (1892), I gave a note on the subgenus Pademma of 

 the genus Euploea. In the present paper I propose to deal with the 

 subgenus Tronga of the genus Euploea. I am driven to do so by the 

 circumstance that Mr. Robert Shelford, Curator of the Sarawak 

 Museum, Borneo, has from time to time sent me large numbers of 

 TrongaSi imploring me to name them for him, as he is unable to do so 

 from Dr. F. Moore's paper on the Euploeina in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London for 1883, pp. 253-324, in which six 



