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beds, where the rarified air prevented any pursuit of insects, but where I saw some 

 fast-flying white butterflies which I could not secure " (P. Z. S. 1865, 489). In 

 another Note, Capt. Lang says, " taken on the Runang, Hungrung, and Kongma 

 Passes in June and July." Mr. L. de Niceville records its capture on the 

 "northern side of Darkot Pass, about 12,000 feet elevation" (Rept. Pamir Bxped. 

 1898, 42). Capt. H. B. Hellard, R.E., obtained it in Kashmir, on the Rajdiangan 

 Pass, about 10,000 feet; Gungabul Lake, about 13,000 feet; Sarsungar and 

 Stakpila Passes; taken in July and September" (MS. Notes). Mr. W. Doherty 

 took "two males on the Pindari Grlacier, 12,000 feet elevation, N.W. Kumaon, in 

 September" (Journ. As, Soc. Beng. 1886, 135). In the British Museum Collection 

 are specimens from Chitral, taken by Captain Gr, H. Culomb ; Ladak, Capt. F. E. S. 

 Adair ; Hunza, Mr. Conway ; and in Mr. J. H. Leech's Collection, from Zojji La, 

 taken in June, and Skardo, in July. In Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection are 

 specimens of both sexes, labelled, Kulu. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records it from the 

 Western Himalayas, as being " found at high elevations only far in the interior near 

 the snows, in the Nila and Baspa Valleys, and from the Nilung Village, all at about 

 12,000 feet elevatiou, in July and xingust " (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, 590). 



PARAPIEBIS CHLORIDICE. 



Papilio Cliloridice, Hubner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 712, 713 (1803-18). 



Pieris Gldoridice, Diiponchel, Lep. Fr. Suppl. i. pi. 4, figs. 3-5 (1832). BoisJuval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. 



p. 543 (183G). Lederer, Horse Soc. Ent. Ko?s. 1869, p. 74. Bienert, Lep. Reise Pers. p. 28 



(1869). 

 Synchloe Gloridice, Leech, Butt, of China, ii. p. 459 (1894). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish-white. Furewiug with, a hlack lunate- bar at 

 end of the cell crossed by the white discocellular veinlet ; a short oblique subapical 

 black-scaled sinuous band extending from the costa to the discoidal veinlet, and 

 which is partly coalesced to an apical-marginal row of decreasing spots. Hindicing 

 with the markings of the underside indicated by a greyish tint darker than the white 

 ground-colour. Underside white. Foretving with the cell lunate-bar and apical 

 markings as on the upperside, the latter less prominent and pale olive-green. 

 Hindwing with all the veins broadly bordered with pale olive-green, leaving a white 

 subbasal costal obliquely-curved streak, a narrow spot within the cell, an irregular- 

 curved discal sinuous band, and a marginal row of broad dilated spots. 



Female. Upperside. Forewiiig with the black cell-bar, the subapical sinuous 

 band and apical-marginal spots larger and blacker ; a lower-discal black spot 

 being present between the lower median and submedian vein. Hindwing with the 

 basal markings of the underside indicated as in the male, but the upper-discal and 



