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Imago. — Male. Upperside deep black. Forewlug with a greyisli- white scaled 

 elongated narrow cell streak, and two similar-scaled basally-united slender streaks 

 below the cell ; a transverse discal and a submarginal series of slender short 

 white streaks. Hindioing with a white basal spot, a narrow elongated costal 

 streak, a broad cell streak medially traversed by a slight blackish line, a discal 

 series of small slender short streaks, and a submarginal series of more oval- 

 shaped short streaks ; the abdominal border also being white. Underside, 

 purpurescent browish-black. Forewing with all the markings, as above, prominently 

 white. Eindiving with all the markings, as above, tinted with olivescent-yellow, 

 the basal spot being chrome-yellow. Body above, legs, and antennae black; thorax 

 above clothed with long silky grey hairs ; thorax, collar, palpi, and legs beneath, 

 white streaked. 



Female. Upperside duller black, with similar mai-kings. Underside also with 

 similar markings, those on the hindwing and the apical on the forewing of a darker 

 tint of yellow. 



Expanse, S 3^ to -i, ? 3f inches. 



HABrrAT. — Eastern Himalayas ; Khasia and Naga Hills. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens of both sexes from Nepal, taken by the 

 late General G. Eamsay. Specimens are recorded from " Bhotan, taken by Major 

 R. B. Pemberton during the Mission in 1837-8 " (Catal. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 83). Mr. 

 H. J. Elwes records " a single specimen of this species was brought by my native 

 collectors from the interior towards Bhotan in 1883, but it has not been obtained 

 certainly in Sikkim " (Tr. Ent. Soe. 1888, 415). Mr. L. de Niceville says "Mr. 

 Moller received a single male from his native collectors, probably from the same 

 locality" (Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 168). Col. 0. Swinhoe records it as " very common in 

 the Khasia Hills " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 309). In the collection of the late Mr. ^Y. S. 

 Atkinson were specimens from the Naga Hills. 



Chinese Species. — Metaporia Largeteauii (Pieris Largeteauii, Oberthiir, Etudes 

 Ent. vi. p. 12, pi. 7, fig. 1 (1881). Leech, Butt, of China, ii. p. 461, pi. 36, fig. 9, ? 

 (1894). Habitat. W. and 0. Ghina.— Metaporia Oberthliri (Pieris Oberthiiri, Leech, 

 Entom. 1890, p. 46. Oberth. Etud. Ent. xvi. p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 2 (1892). Leech, Butt, 

 of China, ii. p. 462, pi. 36, fig. 7,c?. Habitat. G. Ghina.^Metaporia Hastata (Pieris 

 Hastata, Oberthur, Et. Ent. xvi. p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 6 (1892). Habitat. Yunnan.— 

 Metayoria Paracrsea, de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1900, p. 171, pi. 

 EE, fig 19, c?. Habitat. W. Ghina.— Metaporia LarraJdei (Pieris Larraldei Oberthiir, 

 Et. Ent. ii. p. 19, pi. 1, fig. 2 a, b (1876). Leech, I.e. ii. p. 464. Sijii. P. Melania, 

 Oberth. I.e. xvi. p. 5, pi. l,fig. 5 (1892) ; P. Nutans, Oberth. id. p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 3. 

 Habitat. C.China; Yunmn.— Metaporia Lotis (Pieris Lotis, Leech, Entom. 1890, 

 p. 192); Butt, of China, ii. p. 463, pi. 36, fig. 6, S (1894). Habitat. C. Chiiia.^ 



