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being yellowish-white. Under-side : apex of fore-wing pale yellow, 

 the black colour forming only a curved transverse bar, besides tin- 

 two black spots ; hind-wings wholly pale yellow, and having a small 

 disco-cellular black spot ; body yellowish. 



Expanse of wings 2\ to 3f inches. 



lldh. Darjeeling, Assam. In Mus. East India Company. 



The form of the wings of Pieris Durvasa is the same as in P. 

 Paulina and P. Panclione. 



6. Papilio Janaka, Moore, n. sp. (PI. XLV.) 



Upper-side black ; hind-wing with a white patch on the disc, 

 which is divided by three of the veinlets, thus forming four separate 

 patches, the outer one on each side being the shortest, and the two 

 nearest the abdominal margin being tinged with red ; three submar- 

 ginal and three marginal lunules and circular mark at anal angle red; 

 tail with two red spots. Under-side black ; fore-wins:; with the base 

 red ; hind-wing with patch on the disc as on upper-side, but the por- 

 tion nearest abdominal margin nearly covered with red, which colour 

 is continued upwards and downwards, occupying the base of the wing 

 and the whole space between the third median veinlet and submedian 

 vein ; lunules as above, but are larger, and a fourth submarginal one 

 appears between the discoidal and first median veinlets ; tail spotted 

 as above ; cilia between the angles white ; head, neck, body beneath 

 and sides red. 



Wings shaped as in P. Bootes, Westw. Arc. Ent. t. 31. 



Expanse of wings 5 inches. 



Hub. Darjeeling. In Mus. East India Company. 



Remark. — Papilio Bootes appears to be a near ally of P. Janaka. 



May 26, 1857. 

 Dr. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Description of Chinese Sheep sent to H. R. H. Prince 

 Albert by Rutherford Alcock, Esq., II. M. Vice-Con- 

 sul at Shanghai. Presented by II. R. II. to the 

 Zoological Society in April 1855. By A. D. Bart- 

 lett, Esq. 



(Mammalia, PI. LII.) 



These Sheep differ from all others that I have seen in not possess- 

 ing external ears. In size they are equal to ordinary sheep ; the 

 wool is perfectly white, rather coarse and mixed with long hairs ; 



