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the marginal are distinctly black. Underside similar to the male, except that on 
the forewing the lower discal spot is also present. 
Expanse, S ? l x no inch. 
Habitat. —Asia Minor; Persia; Beluchistan; S. Russia; Kashgar; Ladak ; 
Tibet; S.W. China. 
Distribution (Within our Area).—In the British Museum Collection are 
specimens from Quetta, Beluchistan, Kashgar, and Ladak, taken by Oapt. F. E. S. 
Adair. In Mr. J. H. Leech’s Collection are both sexes from Chonging Valley, 
17,000 feet elevation, taken in July, and from Digha Pass, 15,000 feet, by Capt. H. 
McArthur. We possess a specimen from Sirikol; and Mr. H. Grose-Smith has both 
sexes from Chitral. 
PARAPIEMS CHUMBIENSIS (Plate 522, figs. 1, la, g). 
Parapieris Chumbiensis, de Mceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1897, p. 563, pi. i. fig. 6, g. 
Pieris Dubemardi , Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 415, nec Oberthiir. 
Mancipium Dubemardi, de Nieeville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 168. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside white, the base thickly sprinkled with black scales; 
cilia white. For Giving with the base of costa black scaled, the veins also slightly 
black scaled ; a black slender inwardly-dentate streak bordering the lower disco- 
cellular veinlet; an apical marginal decreasing dentated band, a large rounded 
discal spot between the upper and middle median veinlets, and a small cluster of a 
few slightly-defined blackish scales in the interspace below it. Hindiving with the 
veins slightly black lined ; a rounded black-scaled apical costal spot below which is 
a slightly-defined discal series of two or three small clusters of black scales ; a few 
black scales are also marginally sprinkled at the vein ends. Underside. Forewing 
white ; all the veins black lined; the black apical band indicated by the dilatation 
of the marginal end of the veins ; the discal spot as above, and with a slightly- 
defined lower cluster of scales extending to the submedian vein; the discocellular 
streak broader and bordering both veinlets. Hindwing pale ochreous-yellow; base 
of costa chrome-yellow ; all the veins broadly black bordered, leaving an elongated 
yellow subbasal and cell streak, narrow discal streaks, and broader marginal streaks, 
the discal points of the two latter series being slightly coalescent. 
Female. Unknown. 
Expanse, S to 2^ inches. 
Habitat. —Chumbi, E. Tibet. 
Distribution. —Mr. H. J. Elwes records “ eight or nine male specimens of this 
species which were obtained by a native collector employed by the late Capt. 
Harman, R.E., in surveying the Tibetan frontier ” (l.c. p. 415). 
