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in the woods adjoining, singly^ loitering, but fJying, upon the 

 whole, up the valley." — Dr. Watt. 



The female is in Mr. Moore's collection as that sex of H. 

 pseudolalage ; the latter, however, is much more like H. lalage 

 on both surfaces ; it is, however, smaller, has the anal half 

 of the external border of secondaries partly divided by a 

 submarginal macular grey streak, and on the under surface 

 the basal area of these wings and the disco-submarginal dark 

 grey line are far better defined. We have it from Darjiling, 

 whence also all our male examples were received. 



Dr. Watt sent home seventeen specimens of H, argyridina^ 

 but unfortunately the bulk of them were more or less damaged, 

 probably having knocked one another about in the net. It is 

 a significant fact that no other species was mixed up with 

 them ; had there been, it would have cast a doubt on the 

 validity of the species in this group. 



96. Hiposcritia sliiva. 

 Hiposcritia shiva, Swinlioe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 138. n. 106, pi. ix. fio-s. 1, 2. 



Manipur. 



Twenty-six examples were collected. Colonel Swinhoe 

 says that it is " very much like a diminutive H. narendra 

 above ;" but the greater part of the specimens before me are 

 quite as large and some even larger than that species; it 

 varies in expanse of wing from 47 to 68 milJim. ; it varies 

 also in pattern not a little, in the number and size of the 

 white subapical spots on the primaries, in the prominence or 

 entire absence of the black process of the external border 

 on the second median interspace, in the absence or prominence 

 of the colouring and marking of the under surface, most 

 examples being almost as yellow as H. durvasa and with 

 similar markings to those of H. narendra-, nevertheless it 

 perfectly holds its own as a distinct species. 



97. Hiposcritia mahana. 



(S . Appias mahana, Moore, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 48 

 (1877). 



Wallace (Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd ser. vol. iv. p. 382) speaks 

 of this species, under a MS. name of Boisduval's, as appa- 

 rently undescribed, and says that the name " should be alto- 

 gether dropped ;" he appears, however, not to have described 

 the species. The latter is similar on the upper surface to H. 

 shiva, but its female more nearly resembles that sex of R. 

 indra, differing from it chiefly in its smaller size, less pro- 

 duced primaries, the complete submarginal series of white 



