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XV. Some new forms of Parnassius (Lepidoptera Rhopalo- 

 cera). By A. Avinoff, F.E.S. 



[Read October 6tb, 1915.] 



Plates LII-LIV. 



In 1914 I wrote an extensive article with descriptions of 

 some new species and forms of the genus Parnassius from 

 Northern India and Tibet. I made a comparative study 

 of their relationship with other allied forms, and en- 

 deavoured to give a monographical synopsis of the groups 

 in question. 



This paper was sent to the Entomological Society of 

 London at the end of July 1914, and crossed Germany on 

 its way to England just at the moment when the war 

 broke out. Now, as the manuscript has thus been lost 

 and I have not reserved a copy, I am obliged to give but 

 short descriptions ; and at the present time I am at my 

 duties, far away from my collection. All the necessary 

 bibliography is inaccessible, so that I am compelled to 

 publish merely preliminary notes just to fix the new forms 

 of this interesting genus, postponing their more ample 

 study to some future date. I hope that the photographic 

 illustrations of all the described forms will support the 

 insufficient descriptions, and will guarantee the correct 

 identification. 



Parnassius hunnyngtoni, sp. nov. (Plate LII, figs. 1, (J; 



2, 3, ?.) 

 I received this wonderful new species through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Hunnyngton, in honour of whom I have named 

 this minute Parnassius. It comes from high elevations 

 near the Chumbi Valley, South Tibet. 



Apparently this new species belongs to the acco-group, as may 

 be seen by the corneous bag of the female and the characteristic 

 white scaled veins of the slightly pinkish surface of the underside 

 of the secondaries. Their pattern is very peculiar here, as seen 

 by the figure. Especially conspicuous is the curved band of mark- 

 ings in the wing of the female. In the male this curved band of 



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