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under surface is also darker, and all the markings more distinct. This form,, 
the type of which was taken at Leh in Ladak, was obtained in some numbers 
at Kardong and in the Chonging Valley, at elevations ranging from 14,000 to 
17,000 feet, in July and August, by Mr. McAxthur, who Avas collecting for me 
in Ladak in the year 1889. I have also received specimens of this form from 
the Hindu Kush and Issikul, which approach nearer to the type ^in colour of 
upper surface. 
Grum-Grshimailo (Kom. sur Lep. iv. p. 389, pi. x. figs. 4 a, h, 1890) states 
that L. pheretes, var. lahana, flies in July at an elevation of about 15,000 feet 
in the Kounjout Mountains, Pamu-. 
Elwes (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 402) describes a form of L. pheretes 
from Silvkim under the name of var. asiatica, but Mr. de Nic^ville (Butt. Ind. 
iii. p. 81) considers that this form is identical with Moore's lehana, and 
Mr. Elwes has himself stated (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 382) that he 
has three specimens from Ladak which agree with his var. asiatica, and also 
that he has thi-ee paii's from Mongolia and Turkestan which are like European 
pheretes. 
Alpheraky (Eom. siu Lep. v. p. 107) records two male specimens of 
L. pheretes from different localities on the borders of Kansou and Szechuen ; 
one of these examples is larger, darker above, and paler beneath than typical 
L. pheretes, and seems to agree with my specimens from Western China, 
whereas the other specimen, which he says is smaller, darker, and with more 
distinct markings on the under smface than European j)heretes, appears to be 
referable to var. lehana, Moore. 
Graeser (Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 78) states that he met with an example 
of L. pheretes at Pokrofka in Amurland, and remarks that it is paler on the 
under smface than Swiss examples. Staudinger records the species from 
Trans-Baikal. 
My collectors obtained specimens in most of the localities at high elevations 
in Western China which they visited. 
JJistrihution. Switzerland, the Pyrenees, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Amiu-- 
land, Tmkestan, Himalayas, Mongolia, Western China. 
Lycsena icarus. 
PapiUo icarus, Rottemburghj Naturf. vi. p. 21 (1775) ; Exp. Schmett. i. 1, pi. xxxii. fig. 4. 
Papilio alexis, Wien. Verz. p. 184 (1776) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 392-394. 
Lyccena icarus, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 117, pi. xxv. fig. 4 (1884). 
