130 FAPILIONIDJE. 



Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black ; the head above fuscous ; 

 beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen with dusky fuscous 

 pubescence, mixed on the thorax and abdomen with long white 

 hairs. $ . Similar, but in the specimen in the collection of the 

 British Museum marked as the type, on the upperside of the hind 

 wing the red in the discal spot in interspace 5 has disappeared, 

 the same colour in the spot in interspace 7 is reduced to a minute 

 speck, and on the underside the middle red spot of the basal three 

 only is present, much reduced in size. Antennas, head, thorax 

 and abdomen as in the <3 . 



Exp. <$ $ 48-50 mm. (1-89-1-99"). 



Sab. Ladakh, 16,000 feet (Major Charlton} ; Tibet. 



This seems to be an extremely rare form. Mr. Elwes in 1886 

 remarked (t. c.) : " Of this species almost nothing is known ; 

 there exists in all museums to my knowledge but four specimens 

 two in the British Museum, collected by Major Charlton in 

 Ladak, and two others, of which one is in the Hewitson and 

 one in M. Oberthur's collection." There are now in the British 

 Museum the original types named, described and figured by Gray, 

 the specimen from the Hewitson collection, and a fourth according 

 to the information on the label from Tibet, taken in July 1896 at 

 an elevation of 18,000 feet, and presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. A. Pike. 



Race moelleri, nov. st. Closely resembles the typical form, 

 from which, however, it is distinguished as follows : 



Upperside fore wing : the postdiscal 

 transverse dusky-black band broader and 

 situated closer to the termen than in 

 typical simo between this band and the 

 black terminal edging is a transverse 

 band of the ground-colour, divided by 

 the crossing of the veins into a prominent 

 series of spots. Hind wing : no black edging 

 to the termen, the Avhite scaling extended 

 right up to the margin, bounded by the 

 slender anticiliary black line. Underside : 

 Fig. 34. similar ; the markings as in the typical 



Parnassius simo, form, w ith the exception chiefly of the red 

 race moelleri. spots seen more by transparency from the 



upperside than indicated by actual scaling. 

 Exp. c? $ as in the typical form. 

 Hob. Sikhim, at elevations of 16,000 feet and over. 

 Several specimens were taken by Mr. Claude White, and kindly 

 sent to me by Mr. F. Moller of Darjiling, after whom 1 have 

 named this well-marked race. 



