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INSECTS. 
surface of the hind wings. On the anterior pair the base, 
a rounded black spot at the end of the cell, a thick curved 
fascia extending from the costa nearly to the hind margin, 
and a triangular ^pot at the end of each nervule on the 
outer border, are black. The hind pair have the base and 
a line at the end of the cell black, and there is a faint 
trace of the curved dusky fascia of the under surface. Be- 
neath the markings of the anterior wings are similar to the 
upper surface, but the under wings have a curved fascia, 
half-way between the cell and the border, composed of dusky 
lunules. 
Taken by Mr. R. B. Shaw, on the Chang Lang Pass : 
alt. 18,000 ft. 
Collas Kyale, Linn. — Smaller in size, and the hind 
wings clearer in colour above, than European specimens. 
Yarkand. 
Pyrameis Cardul, Linn. — Sanju. 
Meorina Shadula, Moore. — Proceedings Zool. Soc. 1872. 
Shahidulla. 
Mr. Shaw also captured several species of moths, mostly 
obscure, which have not yet been determined. 
Although the insects taken by Dr. Henderson and Mr. 
Shaw were so few in number, they are extremely interesting, 
and show what might have been done in this department, 
if their other duties had permitted them to devote more 
time to entomology. The occurrence at the northern 
foot of the Kuen Lun of the Pyrameis Cardui, the familiar 
painted lady^^ of British collectors, is not at all surprising, 
as the species is of almost universal distribution ; being 
found throughout Europe and Asia, in Northern and 
Southern Africa, Java, Australia, and North America. 
Colias Hyale is found throughout Europe and Northern 
Asia, and its occurrence as a local variety in the neigh- 
bourhood of Yarkand is what might have been expected. 
Neorina Shadula is interesting as being a representative of a 
genus (large and handsome Bombycidse moths) the only other 
species of which occurs near Simla. The other two species 
are remarkable for the great elevation at which they were 
