29(5 RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



This genus until quite recently was better known under the name of Callidryas, and 

 embraced a number of American species as well as those of the Old World. Subsequent and 

 more careful examination has shown that the butterflies of these areas are generically quite 

 distinct, the peculiarity in neuration of the wings being sufficient to easily separate them. 

 The Old World species are thus grouped under Hiibner's genus Catopsilia, and are found in 

 Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, Madagascar and the African Islands, Continental India, 

 the Malay Peninsula, throughout the Malayan Archipelago, and also in Australia and New 

 Zealand. 



The species of Catopsilia are usually very abundant and gregarious, and notices of their 

 habits have already been given under the generic name of Gallulnjas {antea, pp. 284-5). 



1. Catopsilia crocale. (Tab. XXV., fig. 11 J , 12 2 .) 



Pninlio Crocnh, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. t. 55, C, D (1779). 



Paiiilio Jwjiirtha, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. t. 187, E, P (1779). 



Piijdlio Alrmi'one, Fabr. (uec. Cram.), Ent. Syst. iii. p. 196, ii. 611 (1793). 



Colitis Jwjurthina, Godt. Enc. Metli. ix. p. 96, u. 21 (1819). 



(\dUilnj,n crocale, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 625, n. 19 (1836); Wall. Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 400, 

 n. 7 (1867); Butl. Lep. Ex. p. 22, t. 9, f. 1, 2, 3, 6 (1870) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 355, 

 n. 1 ; ibid. 1874, p. 108, n. 2; Snell. Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 18, n. 66 (1876) ; ibid. xxi. p. 35, n. 134 

 (1878) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 837. 



Catopsilia crocale, Butl. Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 550, n. 1 (1877) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1877, p. 591 ; ibid. 1882, p. 253; Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 122, t. 48, f. 1, la, h (1881) ; Wood-Mas. and 

 deNic. -J.A.S.Beng. vol. xlix. p. 236, n. 60 (1880); de Nie. J. A. S. Beng. vol. Ii. p. 63, u. 188 (1882) ; 

 Kheil, Khop. der Insel. Nias, p. 35, a. 134 (1884 1. 



Colias Aloieoiie, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 131 (1829). 



CaUiilnjas Alcnwone, Horsf. & Moore, Cap. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 57, t. 1, f. 7, la (1857). 



Var. 5 . Caltidnjas Kmleer, Boisd. Voy. Astr. Lep. p. 63, t. 2, f. 3, 4 (1832). 



Male. Wiugs above very jmle greenish-white ; anterior wings with the costal and outer margins — 

 broadest at apex and not reaching the onter angle — dark fuscous ; the basal third of wing and costal area 

 to a little beyond end of cell sulphur-yellow ; posterior wiugs with the inner half— concave externally— 

 sulphur-yellow. Wings beneath pale stramineous, with an ochraceous tinge ; anterior wings with the 

 lower half — beneath cell and extending to outer margin — pale greenish-white. Body above with the 

 prouotura dark and thickly covered with long pale greenish hairs, the abdomen pale ochraceous, eyes 

 castaneous, body beneath with legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above greenish-white or pale sulphureous, both wings with the basal areas more 

 or less suffused with darker sulphureous or pale ochraceous as in male. Anterior wings with the costal 

 and outer margins broadly and irregularly dark fuscous, broadest at apex, where there is a more or less 

 distinct subapical fascia enclosing some pale apical spots ; a dark fuscous spot at end of cell sometimes 

 connected with the dark costal nuirgin. Posterior wiugs above with the outer margin broadly and 

 irregularly dark fuscous, sometimes having some faint and obscure pale fuscous submargiual markings. 

 Wings beneath as in male, but darker, with one small disco-cellular spot on anterior wings and two on 

 posterior wings. 



Exp. wings, J , ,52 to G8 millim. ; 2 , 70 to 78 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India ; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking — Moore) ; Darjeeling, Punjaub, Nepal (Butler) ; 

 Madras Coast (Brit. Mus.) ; Bombay (Leith — coll. Dist). — Ceylon (Moore).— Andaman Islands; Port Blair 

 (W'oiid-Miis. & de Nic). — Nicobar Islands; Ivamorta (Moore). — Burma; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.). — 



