This is especially the case, with the strongly bent pupae of Ipiiias Bsd., but 

 also in the genera Callidryas Bsd. and Terias Swains. 



Genus PONTIA Bsd. 

 I Xiphia F. 

 Fabricius, spec. Ins. II p. 43, N. 180 (1781; 



Pap. Xiphia. 



„ Alcesta. 

 Leptosia Chlorographa. 

 Pontia Nina. 



Cramer, IV. p. 175 //. 379 A (1782) . . 



HuBNER, Zutydge fig. 47, 48 (181 8) . . . 



Boisduval, Spec. Gen. I p. 431 N. 2 (1836) 



Snell. v. Voll., Mon. d. Pier. p. 3 (1865) 



Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 288 //. 26 /o-. 8 (1882— 86). Leptosia Xiphia. 



Semper, Schm. d. Phil. I p. 251 //. 42 fig. i, 2 



(1886—92) 



Bingham, Fauna of Br. India II p. \i% fig. 36 (1907). „ „ 



This small butterfly, whose eyes, when alive, are of a greenish yellow 

 colour, flies, hovering slowly, near the ground and seems to be spread all 

 over Java, but especially in more or less woody regions, where perhaps its 

 foodplant grows. 



W. J. Common in the forest of Pademangan in the lowest part of the 

 vicinity of Batavia; much less common in the higher parts there (3 — 14). Also 

 from the neighbourhood of the Tjiletou or Sandbay on the south-coast. 



C. J. At Touban on the north-coast and at Bojonegoro (258). 



E. J. I found many of them in coffee-plantations (500) on mount Semarou. 

 So this butterfly is by no means an especially low country species in Java, 

 as Moore mentions of Ceylon, on Mackwood's responsibility, but is found at 

 different altitudes. Its early stages are unknown to me. But according to 

 Bingham the caterpillar and pupa have a strong resemblance to those of 

 Terias Hecabe L., the former green and thinly pilose, the latter sometimes 

 green, but more commonly pale pink. According to De Niceville {The Food- 

 plants of the bidterfiies of the Kauara District ; Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, Vol LXIX. 1000) the food of the caterpillar consists of Crataeva 

 Religiosa Forst. and some kinds of Capparis. 



