18 LEPIDOPTRBA TNDICA. 



red ; outer nDargin and cm] of the veins for some distance inward black scaled. 

 Hinduing either paler crimson or paler ochi-eons-red, than on the forewing, basally, 

 merging to pale reddish-ochreous externally to extreme outer margin, the upper 

 veins sometimes with a few blackish scales at their tip. Underside. Forewincj pale 

 reddisli-ochreous or ochreous-yellow basally, merging to pale yellowish-ochreons 

 externally. Eimhving pale reddish-ochreous basally, merging to pale ochreous- 

 yellow externally, or uniformly pale ochreous-yellow. 



Expanse, c? 2f to 3^- inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Sikkim ; Assam ; Cachar, Khasias ; Mauipur ; Upper Burma ; 

 Shan States ; Siam ; Tonkin. 



Distribution. — Mr. H. J. Elwes records it as " of very rare occurrence in Sikkim, 

 where," ho says, " I have never seen it. Mr. 0. Miillor has one or two specimens from 

 the low outer Hills " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 418). Tlie type specimen of Galha was 

 taken by Major J. Lind Sherwill, probably, in Assam. Tn Mr. \V. S. Atkinson's 

 Collection were specimens from " Dansuri, Assam." Col. C. Swinhoe records 

 " many examples from the Khasia Hills " (Tr. But. Soc. 1893, 310). Mr. J. Wood- 

 Mason obtained " a single female at Irangmara, Cachar, in July " (J. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1886, 72). Dr. G. "Watt caught "several specimens near Manipiir" (Ann. xN". H. 

 1885, 339). Col. C. H. PJ. Adamson obtained the type specimen of Neho " in the Hills 

 of the extreme north of the Chindwin District, Upper Burma, in the cold weather " 

 (List, p. 43). " In ]\lr. L. de Niceville's Collection are both sexes of Nrho, from 

 Upper Burma, which were taken in the same locality as the type, in x\pril, and is, I 

 believe, only a spring dry form" (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1895, 501). It is also recorded 

 from the Shan States ; Siam, and Tonkin. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 558, fig. 2, 2a, are from the male type of (!(ilha,\n 

 our own Collection ; fig. 2b, is from a Malayan male of Figiilina, and tig. 2c, d, from 

 the type of Neho, in the possession of Col, Adamson, at Newcastle. 



Inio-Mai-ay Speciks. — Tachyris Xcro (Pap. Nero, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. 

 p. 153, cJ (1793). Donovan, Tns. Ind.pl. 32, fig. 1 (1800). Pieris Nero, Boisd. 

 Spec. Gen. Lep. p. 485 (1836). Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 61 (1847). Moore, 

 Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 70 (1857). Trigonia Nero, Gcyer, Hubner's Zutr. v. 

 p. 21, fig. 881-2, (? (1837). Tachyris Nero, \Yallace, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 378. 

 Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 209 (1869). Pieris Thyria, Godt. Enc. Meth, ix. 

 p. 147 (1819). Griffith, Cuv. Ins. pi. 21, fig. 1, ^ ; Giierin, !d. pi. 77, fig. 1. Lucas, 

 Lep. Exot. pi. 25, fig. 3 (1835). Pontia Thyria, Horsfiehl, Zool. Journ. v. p. 09, 

 pi. 4, fig. 2, c? (1829). Ilahitat. Java. 



Tachyris FiguJina (Pieris Figulina, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 399, pi. 8, 

 fig. 1, ?. Appias Figulinn, Butler, Tr. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1879, p. 551. Tachyris 

 Nero (pt.), Wallace, I.e. p. 378 (1867). Appias Nero, Distant, Rhop. Mala3^ p. 311, 



