PIERIN^. 139 



1868, 33). Capt. H. B. Hellard took it in tlie " Valley of Kasclimir and at Goorais, 

 in July, Aug-ust, and September" (MS. Notes). Col. J. W. Yerbury records it as 

 " common in the neiglibourhood of Campbellpur in May and June, and at Hassan 

 Abdal in May" (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, 204). Mr. E. B. Shaw obtained it at 

 Paskyaai, Ladak, 10,870 feet altitude, during tlie Yarkand Mission of 1870. Col. 

 C. T. Bingham has received specimens from Chitral, taken in September, 1903. In 

 the British Museum Collection are specimens from Kashgar, taken in November ; 

 Ladak, Capt. F. E. S. Adair ; and in Mr. J. H. Leech's Collection from Kashmir 

 Valley, taken in June ; Goorais Valley, September ; Deosai, August ; and Western 

 China. Mr, W. B. Pryer obtained it at Shaiighai. 



PONTIA GLAUCONOME (Plate 521, fig. 2, S, 2a, b, ?)• 



Poniia Glauconome, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 7, figs. 18, 19 (1829). Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. 546 



(183G). 

 Pieris Iranica, Bienert, Lep. Ergeb. Reise Persien, p. 27 (1870). 

 SyncMoe. Iranica, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 410, pi. 39, fig. 7, pu^m. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. 1885, p. 343. 

 Pieris Vipasa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1872, p. 565, ? . 



Imago. — -Male. Upperside greyish- white. Forewing witli a large quadrate 

 black spot at end of the cell crossed by the white discocellular veinlet ; a black 

 apical band traversed by four white spots, Hindiving with the markings of the 

 underside indicated by darker greyish-white than the ground-colour ; an ill-defined 

 small black-scaled costal spot, two similar anterior sub marginal zigzag spots, and 

 a marginal row of four small black dentate spots. Underside white. Forewing with 

 the cell spot and apical band as on upperside, the latter pale olive-green except 

 at its lower portion which is black, the veins dividing the band being yellow lined. 

 Hindtcing with the veins and base of costa yellow lined ; two pale olive-green costal 

 cross bars, the inner one being continued across end of the cell and along its lower 

 margin, followed by a similar coloured marginal band enclosing a row of broad white 

 oval spots.- 



Female. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the black cell spot larger, 

 and the apical band broader than in the male. Hindwing with the markings of the 

 underside more distinctly indicated; the costal spot and marginal markings similar. 

 Underside. Forewing as in the male, the apical band being dusky olive-green. 

 Hindwing with the veins and base of costa yellow lined as in the male; the basal and 

 outer area dusky olive-green, enclosing a large white subbasal spot, a cell spot, a 

 broad discal sinuous band, and marginal row of white spots. 



Expanse, 3 I^-q, ? I^-q inches. 



Lakva. — "About 1 inch long. General colour pale green, with longitudinal 



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