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cliicn-lu. The specimens are very large, but do not otherwise differ from 

 European examples, Bremer records it from Pekin, and Elwcs (P. Z. S. 1881) 

 states that he has specimens from China, locality uncertain but probably from 

 Shanghai. 



Alpheraky (Rom. sur Lep. v. p. 98) refers to typical daplidice from North- 

 west China, and var. hellkUce from Amdo. 



In the Corea, this species flies over cornfields in the neighbourhood of tlie 

 Japanese settlement at Gensan ; the specimens are identical in every respect 

 with those occuning in Europe. Fixsen (Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 265) also 

 records it from Corea. De I'Orza is the only author who mentions 

 S. (Japlidice from Japan, but although the record is so far unconfirmed I do 

 not see any reason why this Avide-ranging species should not occur in that 

 country. 



I met with the species commonly in Kashmir ; the female examples from 

 that country are very strongly marked with black and the ground-colour is 

 tinged with yellow. 



Standinger (Rom. sur Lep. vi. p. 142), is of opinion that A. helemida, var. 

 orientalis, Bremer, taken by Radde in Amurland, is only an aberrant specimen 

 of S. daplidice. 



Distrihution. Europe, Canary Isles, Madeira, North Africa, and the 

 temperate parts of Asia. 



S. cJdoridice, Hiibner, an allied species, is recorded from S.W. Thibet and 

 Ladak, and I have received specimens of it from M. Grum-Grshimailo which 

 were taken at Chuan-che (?N.E. Thibet). He also took S. butleii, Moore, in 

 the Nian-Chan mountains, and Alpheraky records the latter species from the 

 plateau of Amdo. 



Synchloe callidice. 



Papilio callidice, Esper, Schmett. i. 2, pi. cxv. figs. 2, 3 (1800?). 



Pieris kalora, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 489, pi. xxxi. fig. 15. 



Pieris callidice?, yar. kalora, Alpheraky, Rom. sur Lep. v. p. 98 (1889). 



Var. kalora, Moore. " \yhite. Male. Fore wing with a transverse quadrate black spot at end of 

 discoidal cell ; apex and submarginally before it with a series of ill-defined blackish spots. 

 Underside dull white ; fore wing as above ; hind wing with all the nervures broadly margined 

 with pale greenish brown, with a submarginal series of lanceolate marks of the same 

 colour, the inter marginal spaces being white. 



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