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many specimens are connected by a line of black scales along the 

 veins to the outer black border ; also the spot in interspace 1 often 

 extends across vein 1 into the interspace below. Underside : 

 similar to that in the d 1 . 



Exp. cJ $ 42-60 mm. (1-66-2-36"). 



Hab. The Himalayas from Chitral and Kashmir to Sikhim and 

 Bhutan, from 2000 to 11,000 ft. elevation ; the hills of Southern 

 India; Assam; Upper Burma: the Shan States; extending to 

 China. 



Pupa. As represented in Mackinnon's figure is a light ochraceous 

 brown with the wing-cases prominent, and with some tubercular 

 darker brown spines midway on the abdominal side. 



594. Pieris napi, Linn. (Papilio) Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, p. 468. 



Race melete. 



Pieris melete, Menetries, Cat. Mus. Petr., Lep. ii, 1857, p. 113, 

 pi. 10, figs. 1, 2, d $; Butter (Synchloe), P. Z. S. 1872, p. 64; 

 de Niceoille (Mancipium), Sikhim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 168; Watson, 

 Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. x, 1897, p. 669 ; de N. $ Mackinnon, 

 Jour. Bomb. N. II. Soc. xi, 1898, p. 590. 



Pieris ajaka, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 490, pi. 31, fig. 16 $ ; 

 Doherty (Ganoris), J. A. S. B. 1886, p. 135"; Moore (Danaus), 

 Lep. Ind. vi, 1904, p. 132, pi. 519, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b, 3, 3 a, 3 b, rf $ . 



Race melete, Menetr. Summer brood. tf . Upperside : white, 

 veins black, conspicuous. Fore wing : base slightly irrorated with 

 black scales ; costal margin very narrowly black ; apex black, that 

 colour joined on to three black, inwardly triangular, continuous or 

 coalescent spots at apices of veins 2, 3 

 and 4 ; a round black spot in middle of 

 interspace 3, and in many specimens 

 traces of a similar spot in the outer half 

 of interspace 1. Hind wing : with an 

 obliquely placed subcostal spot before 

 the apex. Underside : veins more or 

 less widely margined with black ; apex 

 of fore and the whole surface of the 

 hind wing somewhat tinged with dull 

 ochraceous, not so yellow as in the 

 Fig. 44._ Pieris napi, typical P. napi. In many specimens 

 race melete. there is an indication by black scaling 



of bars between veins 1 and 2 and 



3 and 4 respectively ; base of costa of hind wing bright yellow. 

 Antennae dark dull brown, paler at their apices ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen black with more or less of white hairs and scaling; 

 beneath : whitish. $ . Resembles the c? in the character of the 

 markings, but is altogether much darker on the upperside ; the 

 irroratiou of black scales at the base of the fore wing spreads up 

 to nearly the apex of the cell and of interspace 1 ; the black area 

 at apex and on the termen of the same wing is much broader, the 



