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is to be accorded to trie species in its extreme eastern as in its extreme 

 western Palasarctic range, viz., that, in the southern islands of Japan, 

 it occurs all the year round, March, etc., at Ogasawara, whilst in the 

 more northern parts, Yokohama, etc., it only occurs from August to 

 October. It occurred in April, 1893, in the Chinese Province of Se 

 Tchouen (Potamine teste Alpheraky). Of its appearance in Central 

 Asia, it has been noted as occurring in the Pamir in July, and in 

 August and September in Persia (Hoffmann and Cholodkovsky). 

 Longstaff gives (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, pp. 61-144) a series of 

 suggestive dates for India, based on observations made in 1903 and 

 1904. These read as follows : October 10th -17th, 1903, between Simla 

 and Fagu, at about 8200ft. ; October 23rd in the Khyber Pass, October 

 25th at Peshawar, at 1165ft. ; October 28th-29th at Malakand, at 

 3000ft. ; November 5th-6th at Amritzar, at about 750ft. ; November 

 17th at Naina Tal, at 8500ft. ; November 28th-December 2nd at 

 Benares, at about 270ft. ; January 14th, 1904, at Burwa Sagar, 

 February 6th-8th on Mount Abu, at 3000ft. ; February 16th-17th, 

 1904, at Bijapiir, at 1500ft. ; February 18th-23rd, 1904, at Anantapiir, 

 at 1500ft. ; February 25th at Konur, 5500ft. ; February 28th, 1904, at 

 Wakamand, 7500ft. ; March 19th-21st in the Botanical Garden at 

 Hakgala, at 4800ft. We also note, February 14th and April 2nd, 1896, in 

 the Nilgiris, at 7500ft. (Cardew) ; August 27th, 1899, at Matale in 

 Ceylon (Goodrich), whilst Mrs. Nicholl captured it in Ceylon, at 

 4600ft. elevation in March, but Green observes that it occurs apparently 

 all the year round on the Island, and Atkinson notes it as occurring 

 at Simla in May, 1867, and at Jounpore in July, 1867, and Annandale 

 records June 5th, 1901, in the Siamese Malay States. These form an 

 almost complete series of continuous appearance for India. Walker 

 says that he found the insect at Hong-Kong from December to 

 May, and supposed that it was on the wing all the year round 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 439) ; Fletcher observed it at 

 Hong-Kong on November 22nd, 1899. On the time of appearance 

 of the insect in Egypt, Graves writes (in litt.) : " Worn imagines 

 occurred commonly throughout January and February, 1903, at Cairo; 

 fresh examples were well-out in April ; the butterfly also occurred at 

 the end of April in the desert east of the Nile, behind Helwan ; it 

 was also out in the Maryut Steppe the first week of May, and, on my 

 return (after an absence lasting through June and July), it was found 

 commonly in the Barrage Gardens, 12 miles north of Cairo, in the first 

 week of August ; it abounded in September, 1904, in my garden at 

 Alexandria, and my observations lead me to conclude that this species, 

 as well as Danais chrysijopus, Pieris rapae, and Pyrameis cardui, is 

 continuously- brooded, and occurs all the year round in Egypt. 

 Mathew says that it is common in the Gallipoli district, several broods 

 occurring during the summer of 1878,whilst examples were noted through- 

 out November and December up to January 4th, 1879. Of dates connected 

 with the eastern Mediterranean region (sens, lat.) we note — end of 

 January, 1906, at Port Sudan, February 1st- 3rd, 1906, swarming at 

 Khartoum ; February and March, 1904, in the Maryut Steppe (Graves) ; 

 March 26th, 1902, in the Wied Kratal, Malta (Fletcher); April 5th-7th, 

 1890, at Aden (J. J. Walker), April 28th-May 7th, 1907, at the Wadi 

 Rished (Graves) ; April 13th-14th, 1901, at Gharb el Arish, 11°N. 

 lat.; April 21st, 1901, on the White Nile, near Kaka, 10°30'N. 



