388 H. J. Elwees: 



On some Butterflies from Tibet. 



H. J. Elwees, F. R S. 



In the "Insekten Börse" for May 1903 and in "Iris" 1903 

 pp. 43 — 47 etc. Herr Fruhstorfer has described some bntter- 

 flies from Tibet under new naines, about which I feel called 

 upon to make some remarks. It appears from letters received 

 from Col. Fawcett of Scaleby Castle, Carlisle, that some 

 biitterflies were sent to him in 1903 by Mr. Fritz Moller of 

 Darjeeling, India, who probably received them from Mr. J. C. 

 White, Political üfficer to the Indian Government in Sikkim, who 

 accompanied the Government Mission to Tibet. Col. Fawcett 

 made drawings of some of these butterflies which he sent to 

 me for my opinion, and also to Dr. Jordan. We buth thought 

 that it was impossible, from such scanty materials, to describe 

 them as new, especially as they appeared very similar to 

 species already described and known from Ladak. and from 

 Alpine Sikkim and the Chumbi Valley, which were described 

 by myself in a paper in Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1882 p. 398. 

 It seems from a letter written by Mr. F. Moller to Col. Fawcett 

 that the drawings of these butterflies, which the latter 

 returned to Mr. Moller with the names given by myself, were 

 sent with some other specimens to Herr Fruhstorfer, who 

 described the insects under new names without mentioning 

 the name of the person from whom thev came, or in anyway 

 alluding to the opinions expressed by Dr. Jordan and myself. 

 Some of these butterflies were afterwards sold by Herr Fruh- 

 storfer to the Honble Walter Rothschild who has been good 

 enough to lend them to me for examination, and I find, as 

 I supposed before, that they are not new species. 



They are as follows. 



Deutsche Entomologische ZeitschriA „Iris", herausg. vom Entomologischen 

 Verein Iris 2u Dresden, järgang 1903. 



