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Imago. —Male. Upperside deep black. Forewing with a greyish-white scaled 
elongated narrow cell streak, and two similar-scaled basally-united slender streaks 
below the cell; a transverse discal and a submarginal series of slender short 
white streaks. Hindwing with a white basal spot, a narrow elongated costal 
streak, a broad cell streak medially traversed by a slight blackish line, a discal 
series of small slender short streaks, and a submarginal series of more oval¬ 
shaped short streaks; the abdominal border also being white. Underside, 
purpurescent browish-black. Forewing with all the markings, as above, prominently 
white. Hindwing with all the markings, as above, tinted with olive scent-yellow, 
the basal spot being chrome-yellow. Body above, legs, and antennas black; thorax 
above clothed with long silky grey hairs ; thorax, collar, palpi, and legs beneath, 
white streaked. 
Female. Upperside duller black, with similar markings. Underside also with 
similar markings, those on the hindwing and the apical on the forewing of a darker 
tint of yellow. 
Expanse, S 3J to 4, ? 3f inches. 
Habitat. —Eastern Himalayas ; Khasia and Hag a Hills. 
Distribution. —We possess specimens of both sexes from Nepal, taken by the 
late General G. Ramsay. Specimens are recorded from “ Bhotan, taken by Major 
R. B. Pemberton during the Mission in 1837-8 ” (Catal. Lep. E. I. 0. i. p. 83). Mr. 
H. J. Elwes records £e a single specimen of this species was brought by my native 
collectors from the interior towards Bhotan in 1883, but it has not been obtained 
certainly in Sikkim 55 (Tr, Ent. Soc. 1888, 415). Mr. L. de Niceville says “Mr. 
Moller received a single male from his native collectors, probably from the same 
locality” (Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 168). Col. C. Swinhoe records it as “very common in 
the Khasia Hills” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 309). In the collection of the late Mr. W. S. 
Atkinson were specimens from the Naga Hills. 
Chinese Specie's. — Metaporia Largeteauii (Pieris Largeteauii, Oberthtir, Etudes 
Ent. vi. p. 12, pi. 7, fig. 1 (1881). Leech, Butt, of China, ii. p. 461, pi. 36, fig. 9, ? 
(1894). Habitat. W. and C. China.— Metaporia Obertliuri (Pieris Oberthiiri, Leech, 
Entom. 1890, p. 46. Oberth. Etud. Ent. xvi. p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 2 (1892). Leech, Butt, 
of China, ii. p. 462, pi. 36, fig. 7,cf. Habitat. C. China.— Metaporia Hastata (Pieris 
Hastata, Oberthtir, Et. Ent. xvi. p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 6 (1892). Habitat. Yunnan.— 
Metaporia Paracrsea , de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1900, p. 171, pi. 
EE, fig 19, d. Habitat. W. China.— Metaporia Larraldei (Pieris Larraidei Oberthiir, 
Et. Ent. ii. p. 19, pi. 1, fig. 2 a, b (1876). Leech, l.c. ii. p. 464. Syn. P. Melania, 
Oberth. l.c. xvi. p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 5 (1892); P. Nutans, Oberth. id. p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 3. 
Habitat. C. China; Yunnan.— Metaporia Lotis (Pieris Lotis, Leech, Entom. 1890, 
p. 192); Butt, of China, ii. p. 463, pi. 36, fig. 6, 8 (1894). Habitat. C. China.— 
