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Museum are specimens from Shillong, Cachar, and Silhet, Assam. Col. 0. H. E. 

 Adamson found it "common throughout Burma, especially in November" (List 

 Burm. Butt. 1897, 40). Capt. B. Y. Watson records it " common at BeeUng, Upper 

 Tenasserira, from January to April " (J. Bombay, N. H. Soc. 1888, 25), and found 

 it " fairly common at Tilin from December to May " {id. 1891, 51), it also being 

 " common in the Upper Chindwin District in April and May, and was also obtained 

 at 3,500 feet elevation in the rainy season" {id. 1897, 669). Dr. Leonardo Fea took 

 it at Bhamo in November. Mr. 0. Limborg obtained it at " Ahsown, 2,000 feet 

 elevation, and at Taoo, 3,000 feet, Upper Tenasserim, in March" (P. Z. S. 1878, 839). 

 Dr. N. Manders records it " common in the Shan States, nearly all the year round. 

 I have found it up to 5,000 feet elevation " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 532). In Mr. W. 

 Rothschild's Collection are both sexes from Muong Gnou, Shan States. Dr. J. 

 Anderson took it in Mergui in December, January, and March ; on Pataw Island in 

 January, and on Blphinstoue Island in March " (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 50). 



Mr. W. L. Distant records it from the Malay Peninsula, Penang, and Borneo 

 {I.e. 290). We possess both sexes from S. China. It occurs also in " Siam, Annam, 

 and Tonkin. Col. C. Swinhoe has both sexes from Tonkin. Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 R.N., records it from Hong Kong" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1895, 463). The late Consul 

 R. Swinhoe obtained it in Hainan (P. Z. S. 1878, 701). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 531, fig. 1, larva and pupa, is copied from Mrs. Span's 

 original drawing ; figs. 1, la, from a Nepal male, and Ic, d, from a Chittagong female. 



DELIAS THYSBE (Plate 532, fig. 1, la, S, lb, c, ?). 



Papilio Thyshe, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 70, pi. 233, fig. C, ? (1782). 



Pieris Thishe, Boisduval, Sp^c. Gen. Lt'p. i. p. 449 (18.36). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. 



p. 44 (1846). Gray, Lep. In.s. of Nepal, p. 8, pi. 7, fig. 1, ? (1846). 

 Thyca Thishe, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1867, p. 347. 

 Delias Tlnjsle, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hi.=t. 1897, p. 165. 

 Pieris Acalis, Godart, Bncyc. Meth. ix. p. 148 (1819). 

 Thyca Pyr.amus, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 347. 

 Bellao Pyramus, Distant, Riiop. Malay, p. 465, pi. 42, fig. 14 cJ (1886). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1888, p. 407. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 165. Watson, Jonrn. Bombay Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 51; id. I.e. 1897, p. 668. Adamson, List Burm. Butt. p. 40 (1897). Butler, 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 165. Pruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 270. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Forewing with grey-scaled basal cell 

 longitudinal streaks, and an oblique bar at its apex, with two contiguous outer 

 discocellular small spots, two lower-discal streaks, the lowest of which is elongated, 

 and then an outer-discal series of longitudinal lengthened streaks, which latter 

 decrease in length to the posterior angle, and are more sharply defined and pointed 



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