Species o/'Gonepteryx. 407 



2. Wings of both sexes with well-de- 

 fined, partly confluent, marginal brown 

 points ; upper surface of male gamboge- 

 yellow, of female creamy white, hardly 

 greenish even on the secondaries ; wings 

 below with costal ana of primaries and 



whole of secondaries whitish G. nepalensis. India. 



3. Wings of male with marginal brown 

 points well defined and partly confluent ; 

 upper surface deep gamboge-yellow ; 

 orange -j;ot on secondaries very large 

 (twice as large as in allies) ; wings 

 below with costal area of primaries and 



whole of secondaries Jlesh-pink G. carnipennis. N.W.India. 



Gonepteryx carnipennis, sp. n. 



Wings above apparently broader than in G. nepalensis, 

 owing to the apex being less produced ; decidedly deeper in 

 colour, and with a very large orange spot at the extremity of 

 the diseoidal cell of secondaries : primaries below sulphur- 

 yellow, with the costal third flesh-pink ; marginal black dots 

 at extremities of veins; fringe at apex rose-red; a brown 

 spot at end of cell as usual : secondaries flesh-pink ; the sub- 

 costal vein broadly pale sulphur-yellow, as also the termina- 

 tion of the median vein ; a large rounded purplish-grey spot 

 at end of cell ; fringe rosy at extremities of veins. Expanse 

 of wings 67 millim. 



KsSli valley, 9000-10,000 feet {J. F. Duthie). 



The following species from Japan and China is interme- 

 diate between the two groups in the genus, the G. rhamni and 

 G. zanelea groups ; though. nearest to G. rhamni, with which 

 it has been confounded by H. Pryer and others, it has features 

 distinctly linking it to the G. zaneka group. 



Gonepteryx maxima, sp. n. 



The largest species yet described ; the primaries well pro- 

 duced at apex as in G. asp>asia ; the primaries of male not 

 quite so deeply coloured as in that species, though much more 

 so than in G. nepalensis ; the primaries a little deeper coloured 

 than the secondaries and with confluent red-brown marginal 

 spots (as in G. nepalensis), a character not found in G. 

 aspasia ; orange spot of secondaries nearly as large as in G. 

 carnipennis ; costal area of primaries and whole of secondaries 

 below greenish white ; female greenish white, uniformly 

 coloured. Expanse of wings 78 millim. 



S , Nikko ; ? , N. China. 



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