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From Volume 21
Published by the Entomological Society of India (ESI), New Delhi,
(Nodal Officer: V.V. Ramamurthy, ESI, New Delhi)
And Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal
Executive Editor: Peter Smetacek
Assistant Editor: Bandana Subedi
Butterfly Research Trust, Bhimtal
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