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LEPID OPT MR A INI) IGA . 
a male from Da-lhousie, taken by Col. Harford in May, and in Mr. J. H. Leech’s Col¬ 
lection are both sexes from Hnttee, 4,000 feet, taken in May; from Murree, 6,000 
feet, in May; Kujiar, 6,000 feet, April; Dana, F. of Dalkousie, in June and August; 
and from Kardong, 14,000 feet, S. of Leh, Ladak, taken by Capt. H. McArthur. 
Capt. H. B. Hellard took it at Masuri. Mr. W. Doherty records it from c< Pindari 
Valley, 9,000 feet, F.W. Kumaon ” ( l.c. 135). The Rev. J. H. Hocking records it 
from “ Dharmsala, the larvse being found feeding on the Kusmul ( Berberis ) on 
April 6th, and changing to pupae on May 8th (P. Z. S. 1882, 256). Capt. Lang 
found and reared the larva at Masuri, in April and May. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon 
records it as “ occurring in vast numbers for a very short time in April and May 
in Masuri and in the interior. The larva feeding on Berberis Lycium. It is of a 
brown colour, covered with fine and soft hairs. The pupa varying much in colour, 
some being reddish-brown, others almost white ” (l.c. 589). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 523, fig 1 is from the larva reared by Mr. Hocking, 
and the pupa from Capt. Lang, la, b, a male from Thundiani, 1c, d, a male from 
Masuri, and Id, e, a female from Simla. 
PIERIS LEECHII. 
Imago. —Male and female. Smaller than typical Soracta. Upper side. Foreiving 
with the black discocellular-bar much broader, the sub marginal band also broader 
and is continuous in its course from the costa to the lower median veinlet, the 
enclosed series of white spots are also complete. Underside. Foreiving with the 
outer veins broader black, as on the upperside, than in Soracta, the submarginal 
band complete and well defined, the apex tinted with pale yellow. Hindwing 
uniformly pale yellow, with all the veins broadly black, the discal zigzag black band 
also broader and well-defined. 
Expanse, cf ? 1J to 24 inches. 
Habitat. Skoro La, F. of Skardo, Ladak; digit. 
Described from several specimens of both sexes, taken by Mr. J. H. Leech at 
Skoro La, 12,000 ft. elevation, in July, 1887. Col. C. T. Bingham has recently 
received several specimens from Gilgit. 
PIERIS BELUCHA. 
Ajjoria Belucha, Marshall, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, 760. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, 
p. 342. Grose-Smith, Rhop. Exot. i. p. 7, Fieris pi. 2, fig. 8, 9, (1889). 
Metajooria Sorex, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 129. 
? Pieris Leucodice, Bienert, Lep. Reise in Persien, p. 26 (1869). 
Imago. —Male. Smaller than Soracta. Upperside white. Foreiving with the 
