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PAPILIONID^. 



" Female. Base of ■wings, nervures, and exterior margin of hind wing suffused witli greenish grej'. 



Pore wing with the discoidal, black, transverselj^ quadrate spot large, the black marginal and 



submarginal band broad, the interspaces forming a series of white outwardly pointed spots. 



Hind wing with a similar submarginal, apically black, zigzag band, the intermarginal space 



forming a series of white inwardly pointed spots. 

 "Expanse, S 1| inch, 5 ]| inch." {Moore, I. c.) 



My collectors did not meet Avith this insect in any part of China that they 

 visited, but M. Potanine obtained specimens in April at Sinine, Province of 

 Kansou. In referring to these specimens, Alpheraky says that they are inter- 

 mediate between his var. orientaUs * from Kuldja and chrysidice, Herr.-Schaff. 



"The female is smaller, but does not otherwise differ from orientalis; but 

 the male is at once distinguished by its more slender form and the absence of 

 the black spot above first nervure of primaries. Probably it is identical with 

 kalora, Moore, at least the figure of male kalora is exactly like the male 

 from Sinine, and both approach var. chrysidice from Asia Minor." 



Var. kalora, Moore, is one of the commonest of the Pierinse met with 

 between 10,000 and 16,000 feet in the North-west Himalayas. It differs only 

 from typical S. caUidice in the darker green coloration of the under surface 

 and in the female being somewhat more suffused with darker scales on the 

 upper surface. The size of the black spot at the termination of the cell is a 

 variable character both among European and Indian examples, and so also 

 are the dark apical markings of the male. 



I received male specimens from M. Grum-Grshimailo labelled Pieris chry- 

 sidice, var. kalora, from Amdo. They differ from all my North-west 

 Himalayan examples in having a larger and more quadrate black spot at end 

 of the cell distinctly bisected with white, and in having one or sometimes two 

 additional spots in the submarginal series of primaries towards inner margin. 

 On tlic under surface the brownish-green markings of secondaries are much 

 reduced in size, and the interstices are pure white. 



Genus METAPOHTA. 

 Mi'taporia, Butler, Cist. Entoni. i. p. .51 (1870). 



"■Fore wings subpyriform : second subcostal not so near end of coll as in Aporia; upper 

 discocollular oblitpic, ncjirly as lonj^ as lower, which is perpendicular and feebly arched ; 

 eecond and third median brandies rather near together," 



♦ Hora) Soc. Eiit. Hobs. 1881, p. .35!). 



