A16 Mr, I. J. Mlwes’ catalogue of the 
8000 ft. from Mareh to December, The form found in 
Sikkim is variable in size, the smallest 1 have being 
lakon at Mongpo, 4000 ft., in June, and the largest in 
Decomber, but none of them are so heavily marked on 
the hind wings as those | have from the Khasias and 
Nilgiri hills, and none of them are so small and lightly 
marked as the spring brood found in the North-west 
Himalaya, some of which come very close to the var. 
palearctica, Star., from Namagan, in ‘Turkestan. 1 have 
a single, very heavily-marked fomate from Ladak, with 
an additional spot below the cell on the hind wing, and 
no yollow at the base of the hind wing beneath, which L 
considered as a varioty of canidia, but L now think it is 
more probably the undeseribed female of 2. deota, 
do Niceville, as eanidia has not to my knowledge been 
takon in the dry climate of Ladak. 
877. Dieris brassice. 
Pieris brassica, Linn., Syst. Nat., x., 467. 
P, brassice var. nipalensis, Doubl., Lop. B. M., ii, 
p. 82; Gray, Lep. Nepal, p. 9, t. vi., figs. 1, 8. 
I, nepalensis, Moore, P. 4. 8., 1865, p. 49. 
| cannot separate this from brassicae, as lL have before 
romarked, It is commoner in the interior than at 
Darjooling, but occurs there from March to December, 
and as low as 8000 ft. 
878. Pieris melete. 
Pieris melete, Mon., Cat. Mus. Potr., i, p. 118, t. x., 
1, 2 (1855). 
P, ajaka, Moore, P. Z. 8., 1865, p. 490, t. xxxi., 
fig. 16; Kiwes, P. Z. 8., 1882, p. 401. 
[have had considerable doubt as to the name to be 
givon to the form of this insect found in Sikkim, It is 
cortainly not distinguishable as a species from melete, of 
which Lt have numerous specimens from Amurland, 
Japan, and Corea, but is a rather dark mountaim variety 
of that species analogous to the variety bryonie@, which 
ropresents 2. napi in the high Alps of urope and in 
Lapland,  Aelete has, in’ Amurland and Japan, a 
summer and a spring brood, the latter of which is 
not at all unlike some of the smaller specimens of melete 
