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begins to blossom, it is constantly seen hovering before its white 

 flowers, and as each forest tree begins to bloom, it rifles them of their 

 sweets. It finds nourishment even in the Chamkra flower, and is 

 now (May) every morning to be seen hovering over the poisonous 

 Ak Madar Aling ; with it many Humble-bees are seen feasting on 

 the same sweets, and looking like smaller sun-birds. It is very bold, 

 but does not like confinement, though it will suck out honey from 

 flowers put between the bars of its cage. It sings pleasantly, i. e. 

 it has two or three sharp pretty chirps. It moults in the rainy 

 season, and at this time its whole breast is yellow, with the excep- 

 tion of a purple line in the middle ; the back feathers are all a dull 

 olive-green, but with one or two purple feathers appearing. 



This bird often alights on the twig near the flower if smooth, and 

 twisting its head over it, sucks out the honey. 



4. Descriptions of some New Species of Lepidopterous 

 Insects from Northern India. By Frederic Moore, 

 Assistant Museum East India Company. 



(Annulosa, PI. XLIV.-XLV.) 



1. Pieris Nama, E. Doubleday, MS. (PI. XLIV. figs. 1, 2.) 



Male. — Upper-side white ; fore-wing with a narrow brown line 

 along costal margin, curving and widening across near the middle of 

 the wing, and again tapering to posterior angle ; hind-wing tinged 

 with black (as if from intensity of that colour on the under-side) 

 along the outer margin, where the veinlets are dark brown. 



Female. — Brown, with three longitudinal white streaks in middle 

 of fore-wing, and two in the hind-wing : these streaks in some speci- 

 mens being confluent and occupying nearly the whole of the middle 

 of both fore- and hind-wings ; under-side, along costal margin and 

 widening to the outer margin of fore-wing, greenish-yellow, the rest 

 white ; hind-wing greenish-yellow, darker on the veins, and nearly 

 white along discoidal cell towards anterior angle. 



Expanse of wings 2^ to 3 inches. 



Hub. Darjccling ; Sylhet ; Bootan. In Mus. East India Com- 

 pany. 



Remark. — The late Mr. E. Doubleday was acquainted with the 

 male insect only, to which he applied the above MS. name to speci- 

 mens in the British Museum ; both sexes I have now the pleasure of 

 characterizing. 



2. Pieris Seta, Moore. (PI. XLIV. fig. 3.) 



Upper-side blackish-brown ; fore-wing with two rows of narrowish 

 white marks, two lengthened marks between median and submedian 

 veinlets, and four small spots within discoidal cell ; hind-wing with 

 a marginal row of whitish spots, another row from costal margin 

 widening towards the anal angle, abdominal margin broadly whitish, 



