342 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



eacli iaterspace; a small white spot in the two following interspaces 

 Hindiuing has at the extreme base of the wing within the precostal 

 nervure the usual bright yellow patch chai-acteristio of the genus ; 

 all the creamy-white markings of the upperside are pale yellow ; 

 the markings differ from those on the upperside in the presence of 

 a pair of elongated wedge-shaped pale yellow streaks in each 

 interspace, each streak has its apex pointed, its base (which is 

 placed on the outer margin) broad. Cilia of both wings on both 

 sides black. Female. Differs from the male only in being some- 

 what paler throughout. 



This species belongs to a newly-discovered and rapidly-increasing 

 group of the genus which has lately been described by Messrs. 

 Charles Oberthiir and J. H. Leech, all the species of which occur 

 in Central and Western China.* I submitted the drawings of 

 31. harrietce here reproduced to the former; in reply he kindly sends 

 me specimens of several of the allied species, and writes " On my 

 part I am forced to believe that all these species — oherthuri, acrcea, 

 larraldei, and their varieties — are only forms of one single very 

 variable species, which approaches phryxe." Mr. Leech writes on 

 seeing the same drawings, " Your species is nearest to my lotis, it 



* Fieris larraldei, Oberthiir, Etudes d'Ent., vol. ii, p. 19, n. 6, pi. i, figs. 2a, 2h, 

 male (1876), from Monpin. 



Fieris larraldei, ObertMr, forma melania, ObertMr, Etudes d' Ent., vol. svi, p. 5, 

 pi. i, fig. 5, male (1892), from TS-Tsien-Lou. 



Fieris larraldei, Oberthiir, forma nutans, Oberthiir, Etudes d'Ent,, vol. xvi, p. 6, 

 pi. i, fig. 3 (1892), from Ta-pin-tze (Yunnan). 



Fieris largeteaui, Oberthiir, Etudes d'Ent., vol. vi, p. 12, n. 2, pi. vii, fig. 1, male 

 (1881), from Kouy-Tcheou, China. 



Fieris acroea, Oberthiir, Bull. Soc. Ent. Prance, sixth series, vol. v, p. ccxxvi (1885); 

 idem, id.. Etudes d'Ent., vol. xi, p. 15, pi. ii, fig. 7, female (1886), from Thibet. 



Fieris g outellei, Oherthiiv, Etudes d'Ent., vol. xi, p. 15, pi. ii, fig. 11 (1886), from 

 Tse-kou, Thibet. 



Fieris oherthuri. Leech, The Entomologist,, vol. xxiii, p. 46 (1890) ; id., Oberthiir, 

 Etndes d'Enfc., vol. zvi, p. 5, pi. i, fig. 2, male (1892), from Chang Yang, Central 

 China. 



Fieris lotis, Leech, The Entomologist, vol. xxiii, p. 192 (1890), from Wa-shan and 

 Ta-Chien-Lu, North-West China. 



Fieris hastata, Oberthiir, Etudes d'Ent., vol. xvi, p. 5, pi. i, fig. 6 (1892), from 

 Yunnan. 



