156 LEPIDOPTERA INBtCA. 



upwards, of 100 miles in the interior of the Himalayas " (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1861, 102). 

 \A^e possess both sexes from Masuri, 7,000 feet altitude, and a female from Kunawur, 

 taken by Capt. Lang. 



Mr. L. de Niceville remarks (Jouru. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 65) that " when 

 capturing the Nymphaline butterfly Heslina Zella [ = Nicevillei, Mooi'e] it at once 

 struck me that it was an excellent mimic, both in the slow and sailing mode of its 

 flight, and in general appearance, of Metaporia Gaphusa, which is an exceedingly 

 common Pierine butterfly in the spring in many parts of the Outer N.W. Hima- 

 layas, and which latter is, doubtless, a protected species." Mr. P. W. Mackinnon 

 records this butterfly as " occui-ring at Masuri in enormous numbers, during May 

 and June, on the tojDS of the Hills and in shady ravines " (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 

 1898, 589). 



METAPORIA ARIACA (Plate 528, fig. 1, la, S, '^\ ?)• 



Metaporia Ariaca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1872, p. 564, S • 



Apnria Agatlwn, Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bombay jS"at. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 590. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Differs from M. Cajjhnsa in the ground-colour being 

 blacker. Forewing with the dusky cell- streak broader, the discal and submarginal 

 white streaks narrower and smaller, sharply defined and more prominent, and with a 

 wider transverse interspace between the two series ; the lower discal streak traversed 

 by a black-scaled line, and the posterior marginal streak is absent. Hindwing also 

 with the discal and submarginal white streaks narrower and shorter, the two series 

 being also widely separated. Underside also differs from Gaphusa, as on the upper- 

 side, in the widely separated discal and submarginal streaks. 



Female. Upperside duller black than in the male. Both wings with the discal 

 and submarginal streaks also widely separated. 



Expanse, c? 3 to 3J, ? 3|- inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalaj^as. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens of both sexes of this butterfly from the 

 Western Himalayas, and a female from Naini Tal, Kumaon. In the British 

 Museum collection is a specimen from Ruueket, Kumaon. 



METAPORIA AGATHON (Plate 526, fig. 2, 2a, ^J, 2b, ? ). 



rieris Agatlwn, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 33 (1832); id. Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 8, pi. 8, fig. 1 (1846). Bois- 



duval, Spec. Ge'n. Lep. i. p. 447 (1836). Doiibleday and Howitsou, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 48 (1846J. 



Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 83 (1857). 

 Metaporia Agatlwn, Butler, Cistula Entom. i. p. 51, pi. 3, fig. 10, iil. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 61. 



Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 309. dc Nicovillc, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 168. Kirby, Allen's 



Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 128 (1896). 

 Pieris (Aporia) Agatlwn, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 415. 



