390 H- J- Elwees: 



I have already described this form in a note ou some 

 species of Colias found in Ladak (Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Vol. XL part III. 1898 p. 465) from a pair sent by Sir J. C, 

 (then Mr.) White which I then said were very closely allied 

 to, if not identical with, C. stoliczkanus, of which I 

 possess one of the type specimens given me by the late 

 Dr. Felder. The drawings made by Col. Fawcett from speci- 

 mens taken in Sikkim at 19 000 feet, together with a fresh 

 pair lent by Mr. Rothschild and named m i r a n d a by Frnh- 

 storfer, confirm this opinion, though the specimens being 

 fresher and brighter than my old ones, or those from which 

 Col. Fawcetts's drawings were made, enable me to note the 

 following differences. $ b e 1 o w has the disk of a brighter 

 yellow in fore and hindwings, the central spot in hindwing 

 longer and brighter in coloiir in Mr. Rothschild's specimen 

 (not in my own), but this character is variable in a series of 

 Ladak specimens. 9 a b o v e hindwing much darker and 

 orange central spot more distinct, border usually (not always) 

 better marked; below disk of forewing yellower and black 

 spots more distinct, border brighter yellow and more distinct. 

 These characters also seem to be variable. 



The Colias described by Fruhstorfer in Iris 1903 p. 47 

 as phicomone var phile, l have not seen; nnless, as 

 seems probable, it is the pale form of na st es or cocandica 

 which I described in Jour. Bomb. Nat Hist. Soc. Vol XL 

 p. 466. (1897) as nastes var. leechii, which is in 

 Staudinger's last Catalogue put as a var. of c o c a n d i c a. 



It is entirely false to say, as Frulistorfer does, that I 

 in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884 treated Colias ladakensis 

 as a var. of phicomone, and seems to shew that he bas 

 not referred to my paper, where both on p. 6 and on 

 p. 24 I have put down ladakensis as a distinct species. 

 I do not believe, until I see it, that phicomone occurs 

 in Kashmir or Ladak. No one has yet found phicomone 

 any where east of the Carpathians , whereas nastes or 

 cocandica (I care not which you call it) occurs in some 

 form or another all over Central Asia. 



I may add that the species described as B a 1 1 i a 

 sikkima, Frühst. Iris. 1903. p. 50 is not separable, so far 

 as the specimens I have seen enable me to judge, from 

 s h a w i i. What he described on p. 46 as P a r n a s s i u s 

 „hardtwicki" (sie) ab otus, is, no doubt, one of the 

 numerous varieties of that variable species which are common 



