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LEPID OPT ERA IND1CA. 
the British Museum Collection. Mr. J. H. Leech obtained it at Dras, 8,000 feet, 
in June, at Skardo, 8,000 feet, in July, and at Kiris, 11,000 feet, in July. Numerous 
specimens were obtained by Col. C. Swinhoe in “ Quetta, March to May ; Goolistan, 
May; Lora Valley, June ; Chaman, S. Afghanistan, in May ; Kandahar, January, 
March, April, October, and November. Common everywhere. Out of many 
hundred examples I have examined some are referable to Rapse and some to the 
true type of Manni , but there are so many intermediate that it is impossible to 
separate the two forms ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1885, 348). 
DANAUS AJAKA (Plate 519, fig. 2, , 2a, b, ? , 3 <y, 3a, b, $ ). 
Pieris Ajaka , Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 490, pi. 31, fig. 16 $ . 
Ganoris Ajaka, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 375; id. Ann. Nat Hist. 1888, p. 204. Doherty, 
Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 135. 
Pieris Melete , Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 416. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 534. de 
Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 168. Watson, Journ. Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 669. 
Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 590. 
Male.— Upperside white. Forewing with the costal edge and base irrorated 
with blackish scales; a black apical decreasing band and a large discal spot between 
the upper and middle median veinlets—both larger than in Napi, also a more or 
less slightly-defined spot between the lower median and submedian vein. Findwing 
with a black costal spot; the marginal end of the veins more or less black-lined. 
Underside. Foreiving white, the apex pale olivaceous-yellow; veins black-lined; 
two large black discal spots. Findwing pale olivescent-yellow, the base of costa 
being bright yellow ; veins narrowly or broadly blackish bordered ; costal spot more 
or less indistinct. 
Female. Upperside white or olivescent-white, and the base of foreiving clouded 
with dusky scales, and on the hindiving a few dusky scales clustered across the 
disc ; all the veins on both wings either slenderly or more broadly black bordered, 
those on the hindiving , in some specimens, being dilated at the marginal end. 
Foreiving also with the black apical band and two discal spots broader, the upper 
spot more or less diffusedly coalescent with the apical band, and the lower spot 
joined to a slender or broad streak extending below the submedian to base of 
posterior margin. Findwing also with a large black costal spot. Underside 
similar to the male. 
Expanse, S 2 to 2 X ^>, ? 2^ 0 to 2j^ 0 inches. 
Habitat. —N.W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Upper Burma; Shan States. 
Distribution. —Capt. A. M. Lang, R.E., who obtained the type specimens in Lower 
Kunawnr, says, in his MS. Notes, “ this is somewhat local and not common, and has 
not a long-lived brood. It is of very weak flight, affecting low, damp glens, flying 
