Subject: Butterfly names (Was: Butterflies of Namdapha)

Rajendra Kumar Varshney of the Zoological Survey of India has published a
revision of Wynter-Blyth's names:

Varshney, R. K. 1980. Revised nomenclature for taxa in Wynter-Blyth's
   book on the butterflies of Indian region. Journal of the Bombay
   Natural History Society 76(1): 33-40. [Danaidae, Satyridae,
   Amathusidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae]
Varshney, R. K. 1985. Revised nomenclature for taxa in Wynter-Blyth's
   book on the butterflies of Indian region-II. Journal of the Bombay
   Natural History Society 82(2): 309-321. [Lycaenidae, Acraeidae,
   Hesperiidae]
Varshney, R. K. 1990. Revised nomenclature for taxa in Wynter-Blyth's
   book on the butterflies of Indian region-III. Journal of the Bombay
   Natural History Society 87(1): 53-61. [Libytheidae, Riodinidae
   (Erycinidae), Nymphalidae]

[For biographical data on Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth (1906-1963) see the
obituary by K. S. Lavkumar in JBNHS 60(2): 439-440, 1963]

Many of the names in Varshney's revision have undergone further change
in Part III of his 'Index Rhopalocera Indica' which, incidentally, has a
very useful bibliography.

Varshney, R. K. 1993. Index Rhopalocera Indica Part III. Genera of
   butterflies from India and neighbouring countries [Lepidoptera:
   (A) Papilionidae, Pieridae and Danaidae]. Oriental Insects 27:
   347-372.
Varshney, R. K. 1994. Index Rhopalocera Indica Part III. Genera of
   butterflies from India and neighbouring countries [Lepidoptera:
   (B) Satyridae, Nymphalidae, Libytheidae and Riodinidae]. Oriental
   Insects 28: 151-198.
Varshney, R. K. 1997. Index Rhopalocera Indica Part III. Genera of
   butterflies from India and neighbouring countries [Lepidoptera:
   (C) Lycaenidae]. Oriental Insects 31: 83-138.

English names of Indian butterflies are given in the following: 

Varshney, R. K. 1983. Index Rhopalocera Indica. Part II. Common names
   of butterflies from India and neighbouring countries. Records of the
   Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional
   Paper No. 47: 1-49.

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