RHOPALOCEIIA MA LA VAX A. 8I7 



1. Saletara nathalia. (Tab. XXVI., fig. 1 <? , 2 s .) 



Pieris XatJwlia, Fekler, Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. p. 285, u. -10 (18G2). 



Tachi/ris Xtitlialia, Wall. Trans. Ent. Soc. scr. .3. vol. iv. p. 30!), 11. 10 (1807) ; Dnicc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, 



p. 355, 11. 2; Klioil, Ehop. der Insel. Nias, p. 8-1, 11. 125 (188-1). 

 Appias niithaliii, Butl. Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 551, 11. 4 (1877). 



Male. Wings above very pale ochraceous ; anterior wings with the costal and outer margins dark 

 fuscous. Wings beneath as above, but with the posterior wings darker ochracoous and the fuscous 

 margins to the anterior wings very much paler than above, the outer fuscous margin being often 

 practically obsolete. Body above more or less dark greyish or fuscous, the anterior area of pronotum 

 greenish ochraceous ; body beneath with legs more or less concolorous with wings, the legs streaked with 

 fuscous. 



Female. Anterior wings above whitish, posterior wings pale sulphureous ; anterior wings with the 

 basal area dark greyish, the costal area (from about middle of cell), the apex and outer margin broadly 

 dark fuscous ; posterior wings with the outer margin somewhat broadly dark fuscous, the dark margin 

 being inwardly broken and sinuated towards apex. Anterior wings beneath as above, but with the basal 

 area ochraceous, the apical and outer marginal dark border somewhat paler than above and abbreviated, 

 the whole apical area very pale violaceous, with the extreme margin ochraceous. Posterior wings paler 

 sulphureous than above, the costal and outer margins narrowly ochraceous, and the outer dark margin 

 above seen as pale obscure violaceous beneath. 



Exp. wings, ^ and 2 , 54 to 60 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus. ; Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Ayer-panas (Godfery — 

 coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (coll. Wall.). — Nias Island (Kheil). — Sumatra, -Java, Borneo (Wallace). — Celebes 

 (coll. Dist.). — Philippine Islands (coll. Fekler). 



This does not appear to l)e a very common species, the female especially being seldom 

 received from collectors. 



2. Saletara panda. 



Pieiis Panda, Godart, Euc. Meth. is. p. 147, n. 102 (1819); Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 485, u. 71 (183G). 



PierM Sulphuroa, Veil. Mon. Pier. p. 32, n. 41, t. 4, f. 4 (1865). 



Tachjris panda, Wall. Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 308, n. 15 (1867). 



Appias panda, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 551, n. 5 (1877). 



A single specimen collected by Capt. Pinwill was recorded by Mr. Butler as A. panda, 

 with the qualifying remark, "This appears to be only the worn male of A. nathalia; but the 

 black border seems narrower." I have examined this specimen, and find the fourth subcostal 

 nervule absent,— a character which, as before remarked, is peculiar to A. p«;u/a,— though the 

 possession of a specimen of A. nathalia, in which that nervule is present in one wing and not 

 on the other, points to a gradual transition of that character between the two species. 



Male. A. 2)nnda principally differs from .-1. Hathalin by the more sulphureous coloration of the wings. 

 Female. Differing principally from the corresponding sex of A. nathalia by having the ground 

 colour of both wings sulphureous. 

 Exp. wings, 58 millim. 

 Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill-Brik Mus.).— Sumatra (Forbes— coll. Dist.).— Java 



(Brit. Mus.). 



June 20, 1885. '^ *' 



