( 8B7 ) IV. List of Lepidoptera collected in Southern Afghanistan. By Lieut.-Col. C. Swinhoe, F.L.S., F.'z.S. [Read October 1st, 1884.] Plate IX. This list represents the Lepidoptera collected by me personally during the year I spent in field-service between Sibi and Kandahar during 1880 — 81. I took up a trained native collector with me, who collected every day, and, so long as he lived, my collection increased rapidly ; but unfortunately the man was murdered one morning by a Ghazi, who got into my quarters in Kandahar a few months after my arrival there ; and my very severe duties as administrative head of the whole of the Commissariat in Southern Afghanistan left me very little time to collect insects. To my own list I have added the few species from Afghanistan described up to the present, and I believe the subjoined list, meagre as it is, represents all the Lepidoptera from that country of which we have as yet any knowledge. KHOPALOCERA. NYMPHALID^. EUPLCEIN^. 1. Limnas clirysippus. Papilio chrysippus, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr., p. 263 (1764). Specimens from Koondalane taken in March, Mach in August, Chaman in May, Quetta in September, and Kandahar in October ; it was nowhere common, but one or two were to be seen occasionally wherever we stayed throughout the year, when the weather was not too cold. This insect appears to have no particular season for appearing. In Kurrachee I have taken examples of it in every month of the year, the specimens captured during the winter months being, as they also were in TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1885. — PART III. (SEPT.) 2 A
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