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where it appears to be usually quite small. At Bushir in 



the Persian Gulf, at Quetta and Candahar in Baluchistan 



the species is common throughout the season ; dated 



specimens collected by Colonel Swinhoe in February, May, 



August and November are in my collection, and show the 



seasonal variation on the underside very fairly. From 



the Southern Caucasus and from Darwaz in Bokhara I 



have specimens named by M, Alpheraky canidia, var. 



manni, but though I presume he considers this a variety 



of canidia, which also occurs in Turkestan under the 



form named by Staudinger pal^ardica, I am almost 



sure that they are forms of raiJx and not of canidia. 



On the Lower Amur, in northern China and in Manchuria, 



and North-East Tibet, the species also occurs, and has been 



called by Oberthur var. oricntalis, but I cannot see the 



slightest reason for distinguishing this form. In North 



America the species has been introduced and has now 



spread from Canada to Alabama and North Carolina, where 



I took it on Roan Mountain at about 5000 feet. A 



species, or local race of rap^e, has been described by 



Grum-Grshimailo as tadjiha ; he took it in the mountains 



of Darwaz and Karategin in South-Eastern Bokhara at 



9000 feet in June. Whether it is a mountain form 



peculiar to Central Asia analogous to P. ochsenheimeri, 



which seems to represent F. napi in the same region, is 



doubtful, but it is easily distinguishable from Turkestan 



specimens of raiy^e by the markings of the fore-wing in 



both sexes and by the colour of the female, which has 



yellowish hind -wings. 



14. P. daplidice, L. 



The first generation of this occurred at Biisk, and I 

 took one in the Tchuja Valley in June. The second 

 generation was found at the end of July in the Bashkaus 

 at 3000 feet, and at Ongodai by Jacobson. 



15. F. chlorodice, Hb. 



First seen on the Barabinsky Steppe on May 24th, and 

 taken at Kurai and on the Tchuja Steppe on June l7th 

 to June 21st. These were small specimens of the first 

 generation. The second brood was out July 21st at 

 6000 feet, and was also found in the Bashkaus down to 

 about 2000 feet. These only differ in their larger size 

 from those of the first generation . 



