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XVIII. PARNASSIUS JACQUEMONTI Boisiuval. 



The coiifiisioii which has arisen in CDiiiiecMon with this species had its 

 origin in the fact that Boisduval, in his descrijition, mixed up two species, his 

 males being one and liis females representing a second totall)' distinct species. 

 After M. Obertliiir had jiointed out the error, no fnrther tronble wonld have 

 been enconntered if the snbseqnent authors had held themselves bound by the 

 strict laws of priority. Mr. Elwes, however, in l.SSO, ciiose to ignore the fact 

 that Boisduval described tlie d first on page 400 of his Species General, vol. i., 

 to which therefore tlie name jaeqiiemoiitii alone belongs, and taking Boisduval's 

 ? as jacquemontii, he redescribed the true jucqnemoiitii as 1'. rtet/'its var. /lima- 

 layensis. Snbsequent authors have either followed this erroiuons determination 

 or have fallen into various other errors, which need not l)e here set out. Herr 

 Stichel, althougli lie has put the matter right as regards jacquemontii being 

 applicable only to Boisdnval's i S, while the latter's ? ? = 1\ epaplius Oberthiir, 

 yet has failed to see that Mr. Elwes renamed the true jacquemontii as var. 

 himalai/ensis, and that the latter is not a separate subspecies, but an absolute 

 synonym of jacquemontii. 



1. P. jacquemontii jacquemontii Boisduval. 

 2 (?(?, 1 ?, Fullalduros, Nila Valley, W. Himalayas, July 1S88; 1 ?, 

 Gangotris, Jnly isSS; 3 ? ¥, no locality, ex coll. Felder ; 2 <?(?, Lahoul ; 1 ?, 

 Knla, N.W. Himalayas, cotypes of P. actius liimalai/ensis, ex coll. Elwes, ex 

 coll. Felder; 2 cJcJ, I ?, Ladak, 12,000 to ir),000 ft., Stoliczka, ex coll. 

 Felder; 2 c?c?, 1 ?, Himalaya, ex coll. Felder; 1 ?, Tongia, Sikkim, 10,000 ft, 

 Jnly 18S0 (H. J. Elwes\ ex coll. Felder; 1 S, Lahore; 1 ?, Afghanistan; 

 3 cJ<?, 1 ?, Cashmere; 1 S, Sikkim, type of Austant's var. impuncta ; 2 <S S , 

 Darjeeling, ex coll. Felder; 1 ? , no locality, ex coll. Felder, 13 (?c?, 2 ? ?, no 

 locality ; 1 J, 1 ?, Knkli. 



2. P. jacquemonti nirius IMoore. 

 1 (J, type, ex coll. Felder. This specimen has a whole collection of all 

 sorts of labels on its pin, of which two are locality labels. One is as follows — 

 "Niri Lnmdo, in Karnag," the other "Stoliczka, Ladak, Thibet, 12,000 to 

 15,000 ft." It is, therefore, in view of the very doubtful locality, more than 

 probable that it is only an extreme aberration : I, however, keep it sei)arate for 

 the present. 



3. P. jacquemontii chitralensis Moore. 

 I have no specimens of this race. 



4. P. jacquemontii rubicundus Stichel. 



c?(?, 5 ??, no locality; 1 cJ, 1 ?, no locality, ex coll. Felder; 1 S, 

 Nashingla, 10,700 ft., ex coll. Felder; 2 cJc?, Turkestan; 5 Si, Pamirs; 

 2 SS, Dschirgetal, Alai and Transalai, 10,000 to 11,000 ft.. May, ex coll. 

 Felder; 1 c?, Transcasjiia ; 1 ?, Bochara, ex coll. Felder; 1 Osch (Haberhauer, 

 1882); 1 c?, 1 ?,Utscli Kurgan, July; 10 JcJ, 3 ? ?, between Osch and Usgent, 

 July— August; 1 S, Kurnk-Tag ; 1 ?, Fergana. Stichel's variabilis is only an 

 extreme aberration, or rather series of aberrations. 



