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Show 1 9 0 4 .] BUTTERFLIES FROM THE N.E. HIMALAYAS. 141 D e script ion.-Male. Upper side orange, base narrowly irrorated with black atoms; a black diamond-shaped spot at apex of cell; a fuscous marginal band, with a row of pale yellow hastate spots between the nervules. Hind wing orange; inner margin green, irrorated with black atoms ; a paler spot in cell, and a submarginal row of pale yellow hastate spots ; apex and outer margin fuscous. Under side : fore wing-disk paler than upper side ; apex and costa grass-green, irrorated with black atoms; a black spot at apex of cell, and a submarginal row of black spots, ill-defined towards the apex, and beyond them a row of pale yellow spots. Hind wing grass-green ; a pale sulphur submarginal fascia, irrorated with dark green atoms ; a silver spot in a reddish area at end of cell. Head, antennae, and cilia pink. Female. Upper side : fore wing orange, paling on the costa to yellow; base and median nervules irrorated with black atoms ; marginal band and spots as in male. Hind wing black; cell yellow, with an orange spot at its apex; a marginal band of sordid-sulphur lunulate spots. Head, antennae, and cilia as in male. The specimens in my possession have been identified by Mr. H. J. Elwes as var. leechi. Herr Friihstorfer erroneously described two of my figures as representing a new species, under the name of G. eogene, subsp. miranda (Insekten Bcirse, xx. 19. 148, May 1903). These figures are introduced into this paper because this variety does not appear to have been figured previously, and with a view to complete the series of forms of Colias from the borders of Sikkim and Thibet. Since these notes were written I have seen a paper published by Mr. H. J. Elwes in ‘ Iris,' 1904 (pp. 388 et seqq.), on the subject of the descriptions and figures above referred to. In this paper Mr. Elwes refers to this species of Colias as " stoliczkana" although he had previously written " leechi " below the figures I submitted to him for identification. The male of this species, however, differs from the figure of the male of C. stoliczkana in the British Museum. The var. stoliczkana has hitherto been recorded only from Ladak, Fergana, and Amdo; while the var. leechi has been recorded only from China. E X P L AN A T IO N OF PLATE IX . Fig. 1. Ragadia simplex Fawcett, p. 135. 2. Melitcea tibetana Fawcett, p. 135. 3. Argynnis claudia Fawcett, p. 136. 4. Lyccena ariana Moore, var. arene Fawcett, p. 137. 5. Lyccena pheretes Hiibner, var.joharis Fawcett, $ , p. 138. 5 a. Ditto, ? • 6. Lyccena (Zizera) zera Fawcett, p. 138. 7. Lyccena (Niphanda) marcia Fawcett, p. 139. 8. Colias berylla Fawcett, p. 139. 9. Colias nina Fawcett, p. 140. 10. Colias eogene Felder, var. leechi Gr.-Gr., $ , p. 110. 10 a. Ditto, 9 • |