In 1886,
William Doherty published a list of 271 species of butterflies from
Kumaon. 13 years later,
Philip Mackinnon and
Lionel de Nicéville published several papers documenting 323 species from
Mussoorie and neighboring regions. Between 1910 and 1915,
Frank Hannyngton compiled a list of 378 species from the Kumaon region. In 1963, M. L. Roonwal published a list of the identified species of insects in the Forest Research Institute in
Dehradun. == Papilionidae ==