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Show 760 MAJOR MARSHALL ON ASIATIC BUTTERFLIES. [Dec. 19, lar, well-defined black patch on the discocellular nervules; the subcostal nervure to end of cell, the median and the base of its branches and the submedian at its base broadly bordered with grey irrorations, the remaining nervules narrowly bordered in the same way. Hind wing white, with the blackish irrorations of the upperside obsolete on the margin, but much blacker round the cell and at the base of the submedian and internal nervures ; a marginal series of bright yellow spots on a pure white ground, one between each pair of nervules, and decreasing from the apex ; a discal series outside the cell, elongate between the median nervules ; a patch at the base, another almost filling the cell, and the entire inner margin broadly, bright yellow. Female. U P P E R S I D E as in the male, but with the black markings more developed: fore wing with the patch on the discocellulars as on underside of male, and a broad submarginal irrorated black band, outwardly dentate and sharply defined, inwardly diffused. Hind wing with a broad irrorated blackish patch round end of cell, and a diffused submarginal band from the costa disappearing below the second median nervule in some specimens, in others continued to the lower median nervule as an irrorated blackish border bearing white marginal spots ; the yellow patch at anal angle fainter and more diffused; otherwise as in the male. U N D E R S I D E as in the male, but with the black mark on the discocellulars larger, especially on the hind wing, and both wings with the irrorated blackish sub-marginal band, but much less wide than on the upperside. Closely allied to D. sanaca, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 79, but differing in having all the black markings greatly reduced and paler, and many of them altogether wanting, especially on the hind wing. The female is not nearly so black an insect as male D. sanaca ; while the male is conspicuously white, with a few black markings; the yellow marginal spots on the underside of the hind wing being on a pure white ground is a very distinctive character. Expanse 3*3 to 3*5 inches. Habitat. Kunawar in the N . W . Himalayas. The type specimens are in tbe collection of Col. A. M . Lang, R.E., where they have for many years stood under the above name ; but no description of them has hitherto been published. APORIA BELUCHA, n. sp. U P P E R S I D E white : fore wing with the nervules black, a black patch at end of the cell on the discocellulars, the outer margin broadly black, terminating abruptly at the lower median nervule, and bearing a series of irregular white marginal spots ; these spots in some specimens extend to the margin, leaving only a conspicuous sub-marginal dark band. Hind wing with the outer margin and outer half of each nervure narrowly defined with black, the markings of the underside showing through by transparency. U N D E R S I D E- fore wing as on upperside, but with the costa, apex, and outer margin suffused with pale yellow; hind wing pale yellow, all the nervures broadly and evenly defined with black, and a submarginal |