PAPILIONID.^. PIERIN.5:. — JIETAPORIA. 



IX.— METArOllIA BELUCHA. ? . Figs. ,s, 9. 



Aporia Bducha, Marshall, " Proceedings of the Zoological Society ot 

 London," 18S2, p. 7G0. 



Met aporia Sorcx, Henley Grose Smith, "Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 5, vol. 20, p. 12'J (August, 1887). 



Exp. If to 2 inches. 



" Upperside. Both wings white. Anterior wings with the margins and 

 uervures black, a broad black patch at the end of and beyond the cell, the inner 

 side of which curves towards the base, the outer side irregular, and the black 

 extending partially along the first and second median nervules ; an irregulai- 

 submarginal l)lack Ijand from the costal margin to the third median ucrvule : 

 between the band and the oiiter margin, which is broadly black, between the 

 nervures, which are also l)roadly black, are seven white streaks, — the first small, 

 the second linear, the third and fourth larger than the first, the fifth nearly 

 obsolete, the sixth the largest, and the seventh smaller than the sixth, but 

 larger than the fifth. Posterior wings with the margins and ends of tlie 

 nervures black ; an obscurely-defined submarginal row of hastate spots, and a 

 small black spot at the end of the cell between the discoidal and first median 

 nervule. 



" Underside. Anterior wings as above, with the costal margin and ;ipex 

 pale yellowish-brown ; the outer margin and ends of the nervures narrowly 

 black. Posterior wings yellowish-brown, with black nervures and margins, and 

 a well-defined sul)marginal baud of hastate spots." (H. G. S., Ix.) 



Hab. Ziarut Pass, near the Keewas Valley (Beluchistan). at an elevation of 

 8,000 feet above the sea. (Col. A. M. Lang, E.E. ; June IH.) Gwashki, fifty- 

 seven miles S.E. of Quettah, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. (Mr. Hodgson, Pi. A.) 



In tlie Collectious of Major Marshall and Mr. Henley Grose Smith. 



Major Marshall mentions that in some specimens [probably males] the snbmarginal whit" 

 spots on the anterior wings extend to the hind margin, leaving only a conspicuons snbmarginal 

 dark band. 



Intermediate between M. Sonicta, Moore, and M. Lencxlice, Eversni., size of the latter 

 more distinctly related to M. Naheirtca, Boisd., and M. Bietl and Larnihlui, 01)erth., &ti. 



