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upwards of 100 miles in the interior of the Himalayas ” (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1861, 102). 
W e possess both sexes from Masuri, 7,000 feet altitude, and a female from Kunawur, 
taken by Capt. Lang. 
Mr. L. de Nieeville remarks (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 65) that “when 
capturing the Nymphaline butterfly Hestina Zella [ = Mcevillei, Moore] it at once 
struck me that it w r as an excellent mimic, both in the slow and sailing mode of its 
flight, and in general appearance, of Metaporia GapJmsa , which is an exceedingly 
common Pierine butterfly in the spring in many parts of the Outer N.W. Hima¬ 
layas, and which latter is, doubtless, a protected species.” Mr. P. W. Mackinnon 
records this butterfly as “ occurring at Masuri in enormous numbers, during May 
and June, on the tops of the Hills and in shady ravines ” (J. Bombay 1ST. H. Soc. 
1898, 589). 
METAPORIA ARIACA (Plate 528, fig. 1, la, <£, lb, $). 
Metaporia Ariaca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 561, d. 
Aporia Agathon, Maekinnon and de Nieeville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 590. 
Imago.—M ale. Upperside. Differs from M. GapJmsa in the ground-colour being 
blacker. Foiewing with the dusky cell-streak broader, the discal and submarginal 
white streaks narrower and smaller, sharply defined and more prominent, and with a 
wider transverse interspace between the two series ; the lower discal streak traversed 
by a black-scaled line, and the posterior marginal streak is absent. .Hindwing also 
with the discal and submarginal white streaks narrower and shorter, the two series 
being also wid.ely separated. Underside also differs from GapJmsa , as on the upper- 
side, in the widely separated discal and submarginal streaks. 
Female. Upperside duller black than in the male. Both wings with the discal 
and submarginal streaks also widely separated. 
Expanse, d 3 to 3J, ? 3J- inches. 
Hab i tat .—We stern Hi m alaya s. 
Distbibution.—W e possess specimens of both sexes of this butterfly from the 
Western Himalayas, and a female from Naini Tal, Kumaon. In the British 
Museum collection is a specimen from Kuneket, Kumaon. 
METAPORIA AGATHON (Plate 526, fig. 2, 2a, £, 2b, ?). 
Pieris Agathon , Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 33 (1832); id. Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 8, pi. 8, fig, 1 (1846). Bois- 
duval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 447 (1836). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 48 (1846). 
Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 83 (1857). 
Metaporia Agathon, Butler, Cistula Entom. i. p. 51, pi. 3, fig. 10, id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 61. 
Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 309. de Nieeville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 168. Kirby, Allen’s 
Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 128 (1896). 
Pieris ( Aporia ) Agathon, Elvves, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p, 415. 
