132 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



the British Museum Collection. Mr. J. H. Leech obtained it at Dras, 8,000 feet, 

 in June, at Skardo, 8,000 feet, in Jnly, and at Kiris, 11, 000 feet, in July. Numerous 

 specimens were obtained by Col. C. Swinhoe in " Quetta, March to May ; Goolisfcan, 

 May ; Lora Valley, June ; Charaan, S. Afghanistan, in May ; Kandahar, January, 

 March, April, October, and November. Common everywhere. Out of many 

 hundred examples I have examined some are referable to Bapse and some to the 

 true type of Manni, but there are so many intermediate that it is impossible to 

 separate the two forms " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1885, 343). 



DANAUS AJAKA (Plate 519, fig. 2, ^J , 2a, b, ? , 3 c?, 3a, b, ? ). 



Pieris Ajaha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 490, pi. 31, fig. 16 ? . 



Ganoris Ajal-a, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 375; id. Ann. Nat Hist. 1888, p. 204. Dohert}-, 



Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 135. 

 Pieris Melete, Elwe.s, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 416. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 534. de 



Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 168. Watson, Journ. Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 669. 



Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 590. 



Male. — Upperside white. Foreiuing with the costal edge and base irroratcd 

 with blackish scaler ; a black apical decreasing baud and a large discal spot between 

 the upper and middle median veinlets — both larger than in Najn, also a more or 

 less slightly- defined spot between the lower median and submedian vein. Hindwing 

 with a black costal spot ; the marginal end of the veins more or less black-lined. 

 Underside. Forewing white, the apex pale olivaceous-yellow ; veins black-liued ; 

 two large black discal spots. Hindwing pale olivescent-yellow, the base of costa 

 being bright yellow ; veins narrowly or broadlj^ blackish bordered ; costal spot more 

 or less indistinct. 



Female. Upperside white or olivesceut-white, and the base o^ foreidiig clouded 

 with dusky scales, and on the hindwing a few dusky scales clustered across the 

 disc ; all the veins on both wings either slenderly or more broadly black bordered, 

 those on the hindwing, in some specimens, being dilated at the marginal end, 

 Forewing also with the black apical band and two discal spots broader, the upper 

 spot more or less diffusedly coalescent with the apical band, and the lower spot 

 joined to a slender or broad streak extending Ijelow the submedian to base of 

 posterior margin. Hindwing also with a lai'ge black costal spot. Underside 

 similar to the male. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2i^o, ? S^^o to 2j^o inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. and B. Himalayas ; Assam ; Upper Burma ; Shan States. 



Distribution. — Capt. A. M. Lang, R.E., who obtained the type specimens in Lower 

 Kunawur, says, in his MS. Notes, " this is somewhat local and not common, and has 

 not a long-lived brood. It is of very weak flight, affecting low, damp glens, flying 



