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begins to blossom, it is constantly seea hovering before its white 

 flovvers, and as each forest tree begins to bloom, it rifles them of their 

 sweets. It finds nourisbment even in the Chamkra flower, and is 

 now (May) every morning to be seen hovering over the poisonous 

 Ak Madar AUng ; with it many Humble-bees are seen feasting on 

 the šame sweets, and looking Hke smallersun-birds. Itis very bold, 

 but does uot Uke confinement, though it will suck out honey from 

 flowers put between the bars of its cage. It sings pleasantly, i. e. 

 it has two or three sharp pretty chirps. It moults in the rainy 

 season, and at this time its whole breast is yellow, with the excep- 

 tion of a purple Hne in the middle ; the back feathers are ai! a duU 

 oUve-green, but with one or two purple feathers appearing. 



This bird often alights on the twig near the flower if smooth, and 

 twisting its head over it, sucks out the honey. 



4. Descriptions of some New Species of Lepidopterous 

 Insects from Northern India. By Frederic Moore, 

 AssiSTANT MusEUM East India Company. 



(Annulosa, PI. XLIV.-XLV.) 



1. PiERis Namą, E. Doubleday, MS. (PI. XLIV. figs. 1, 2.) 



Malė. — Upper-side white ; fore-wing with a narrow brown line 

 along costal margin, curving and widening across near the middle of 

 the wing, and again tapering to posterior angle ; hind-wing tinged 

 with black (as if from intensity of that colour on the under-side) 

 along the outer margin, where the veinlets are dark brovvn. 



Female. — Brown, with three longitudinal white streaks in middle 

 of fore-vring, and tvvo in the hind-wing : these streaks in some speci- 

 mens being confluent and occupying nearly the whole of the middle 

 of both fore- and hiud-wings ; under-side, along costal margin and 

 widening to the outer margin of f6re-wing, greenish-yellow, the ręst 

 white ; hind-wing greenish-yellow, darker on the veins, and nearly 

 white along discoidal cell towards anterior angle. 



Expanse of wings 2^ to 3 inches. 



Hab. Darjeehng ; Sylhet ; Bootan. In Mus. East India Com- 

 pany. 



Remark. — The late Mr. E. Doubleday \vas acąuainted with the 

 malė insect only, to which he applied the above MS. name to speci- 

 mens in the British Museum ; both seses I have now the pleasure of 

 characterizing. 



2. PiERis Sėta, Moore. (PI. XLIV. fig. 3.) 



Upper-side blackish-brown ; fore-wing with two rows of narrovvish 

 white marks, two lengthened marks betvveen median and submedian 

 veinlets, and four small spots vvithin discoidal cell ; hind-wing with 

 a marginai row of vvhitish spots, another row from costal margin 

 widening towards the anai angle, abdominal margin broadly whitish, 



