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17. Argynnis CLARA Blanch. Jacq. Yoy. iv. p. 20, Ins. t. 

 (1844). 



A. Claudia Fawcett, P. Z. S. 1904, ii. p. 136, pi. ix. f. 3. 



Specimens from Kliamba Jong and Gyantze seem to be inter- 

 mediate between the typical form from Kashmir and the smaller, 

 paler form described as darina by Staudinger from N.E. Tibet. 

 I venture to think that if Col, FaAvcett had seen a series . of both 

 he woidd not have described A. claudia. 



18. Argynnis gemmata Butl. Ann. N. H, 1881, vii. p. 32. 

 Numerous specimens from Khamba Jong and Tungu. 



19. Argynnis altissima Elwes, P.Z. S. 1882, p. 403. 

 Many specimens from Tungu and the Lhanak V^i.llfiv^ 



20. Melitjda sindura var. sikkimensis Moore. 



M. tihetana Fawcett, P. Z. S. 1904, ii. p. 135, pi. ix. f. 3. 



A very long series of specimens from Khamba Jong and Gyantze 

 leaves me in doubt whether to treat the insects as va,rieties of 

 the same species : those from the former locality being the same 

 as those which I formerly described and figiu"ed in my ' Catalogue 

 of the Butterflies of Sikhim ' as a variety of sindura, afterwards 

 called sikkiviensis by Moore ; whilst those from Gyantze, bein 

 larger, might be referred to halhita Moore by those to whom 

 names are dearer than Nature. I confess my inability to draw a 

 line between them on account of the great variation in both sexes. 

 Anyone who will examine carefully the magnificent series of 

 Melitcea from Asia now incoi'porated in the British Museum 

 Collection must see that any attempt to define many of them in 

 such a way that they can be recognised with any degree of 

 certainty will be a failure, and Staudinger's Catalogue, full as it 

 is of marks of interrogation, proves the truth of what he told me 

 himself, namely, that their classification must be largely a matter 

 of personal opinion. 



21. Yanessa kashmirensis Koll. Hiigel, Kaschmir, p. 442, t. 9. 



A few specimens from Tungu, Khamba Jong, and Gyantze. 



I cannot follow Staudinger in placing V. kashmirensis as a 

 variety of urticce, which is represented in the Western Himalayas 

 by var. rigana, and in the east by var. chinensis, which, however, 

 has not yet been taken, so far as I know, in Sikhim. 



22. Yanessa urtic^ var. chinensis Leech, Butt. China &c. 

 p. 258, pi. XXV. f. 1. 



A few specimens from Gyantze. 



23. Yanessa ladakensis Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. 187 8^ 

 p. 227. 



A few specimens from Khamba Jong and Gyantze. 



