1865.] FROM THE NORTH-WEST HIMALAYAS. 491 
23, Preris sanaca, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1857, p. 103, pl. 44. f. 4, 2. 
Very rare; obtained only in one richly wooded glen far in the in- 
terior of the N.W. Himalayas. Its flight was very strong and fast. 
24. ANTHOCHARIS DAPHALIS, n.sp. (Pl. XXXI. fig. 14.) 
White. Male. Fore wing with the costal margin and apex deli- 
cately chequered with black ; a transverse black spot at end of dis- 
coidal cell. Hind wing traversed with irregular pale-greenish bands ; 
a slight apical streak, a small spot at end of the cell, and small spots 
on cilia black. Body blackish. Underside—fore wing with costa 
chequered with black ; the discoidal black spot with a white centre ; 
the apex chequered with pale greenish brown, the interspaces being 
pale silvery white. Hind wing yellowish brown, interspersed with 
numerous large and minute silvery-white spots. 
Expanse 1} inch. 
Hab. Middle Kunawur. : 
Note.—“ An early spring insect, among cliffs ; not common. 
25. THESTIAS HNIPPE, Cram. Pap. t. 105. f. C, D, ¢; t. 229. 
PBC, oO. 
This species is subject to considerable variation, and the varieties 
seem constant to localities. The larve feed on Capparis. I observe a 
constant difference in the Himalayan and plains varieties, apparently 
coexistent with and dependent on the species of Capparts growing 
in their separate habitats. The Himalayan specimens from the 
Sutlej valley are much greyer and finer insects than those from the 
plains, as the luxuriantly growing, large-leaved, and finely coloured 
lilac-flowered Capparis (sp.?), which covers like ivy the bold cliffs 
over the Sutlej, and affords pabulum to the hill enippe larve, is a 
handsomer plant than the coarse straggling thorny bush of the Cap- 
paris sepiaria of the dry plains with its small white flowers. None 
but an entomologist, who knew the species well, would say that the 
two insects were of the same species, were I to put side by side an 
immense black female from Wangtoo and a small clean white female 
from Umballa. The upper surface of anterior wing of the former is 
dark black, with an interrupted white fascia transverse ; the posterior 
_ wing dull black, with a dusky-white disk ; whereas the whole upper 
surface of the Umballa female is clean white, the anterior wing only 
having the outer margin and apex black, and a short black streak 
from the middle of the costa. The two insects are wonderfully un- 
like. The males are similarly, though not to so great an extent, 
unlike. Some females have the apical half of the anterior wing pale 
yellow. 
26. THESTIAS MARIANNE, Cram. Pap. t. 217. f. C, D, E. 
Abundant in the Himalaya. The females vary a good deal, as in 
T. enippe. I have seen no large black variety, however, to match 
my Wangtoo 7. enippe. 
