
Mr. H. J. Elwes F.R. S. on Himalayan Parnassius. 87 
Mr. White’s native collectors in the same valley, and others 
which shew a gradual transition to the darkest form of the 
species known as charino, Gray. The same variation also 
oceurs in the North West Himalaya, vide Elwes, on the genus 
‘ Parnassius, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886 p. 39, where I quote Captain 
Young as follows. „In the interior it varies from typical 
hardwickii through light and dark grey to the high level 
form charino.“ 
Fifth, he says that the type of hardwickii has a 
yellowish ground color. Though the plate in Gray’s 
Lepidoptera of Nepal is so colored, I have not one specimen 
out of nearly fifty in my collection, selected from hundreds, 
which shews this color. I therefore say that white, not 
yellowish, is the typical ground color of the species. 
Lastly, Herr Fruhstorfer gives a list of the Himalayan 
Parnassius which is very incomplete and incorrect, as I will 
show. Instead of four species there are seven, namely. 
1. P.hardwickiü, Gray. Sikkim Kashmir 6—14000 feet. 
2. P. acco, Gray. Alpine Sikkim (one specimen only 
received, in coll. Elwes). Ladak (Lapsang & Tibet frontier 
17600 feet, Dr. Thorold). 
3. P. simo, Gray. Ladak (Major Charlton in British 
Museum). 
4. P. jacquemontii vera Bdv. Ladak and Tibet frontier 
13— 18000 feet = epaphus Ob., vide Elwes P. Z. S. 1886 p. 36. 
var. sikkimensis, Elwes, (minor nom. vix conservandum), 
‚Alpine Sikkim 16— 13000 feet; N.E. Tibet, Nan Shan Mountains 
11—13000 feet (Koslow & Roborowsky). 
5. P. actius var. himalayensis, Elwes? bona sp. P. jac- 
quemontiü, Blanch., Moore, Ob., Honrath et auctorum? B. A. 
in parte? N. W. Himalaya, Lahoul 11—15000 feet. 
6. P.stoliezkanus, Feld. Ladak, Rupohu, Lahoul(15000 feet, 
‚de Niceville) Wardwan Valley. Kashmir. 
7. P. charltonius, Gray. Ladak, Lahoul 11—16000 feet. 
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