rAriLIONID.E.-PIERIN.E, 



HUPHIXA. 11. 



VI.— HUPHINA ACtXATA. s. Figs. 1, 2. ?. Fig. 3. 



Pieris Jtjnata, H. Grose-Smith, "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," 

 Vol. XXV., p. 301 (Jmie, 1880). 



Exp. 2^ inches. 



Male. Upperside. Both wings creamy-white, broatlly bordered with 

 black. Anterior wings, base and basal half of costa irrorated with grey, rather 

 broadly black beyond, apex and outer margin very broadly black, with several 

 narrow white streaks before the apex in some specimens, the inner edge of the 

 black border rather deeply sinuate. On the posterior wings the black border 

 narrows towards the anal angle, where it is irrorated internally with grey. 



Underside. Anterior wings white, greenish-yellow at the base, irrorated 

 with grey ; costal area, apex, and outer margin as on the upperside, but towards 

 the apex are three distinct, bright yellow, conical spots, under which are three 

 more or less defined smaller white spots. Posterior wings, inner three- 

 fourths bright canary-yellow, outer fourth brownish-black, the inner edge 

 of which is irregular, and in which are two irregular ill-defined yellow 

 spots, the first below the second subcostal nervule, the other below the upper 

 median nervule. 



Female. Upperside resembles the male, but the wings are more stramineous 

 and rather rounder. 



Underside. Anterior wings more grey, and spots paler. Posterior wings, 

 with the basal three-fourths pale orange-yellow, traversed by white veins. 



Hab. Rubiana and Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands (Woodford, and Captains 

 Cayley Webster and Cotton). 



In the Collections of Mr. G-rose- Smith (Types $ $ ) and others. 

 Near H. Lafilimhafa, Butl., and H. Quadricolor, Godm. and Salv. 



VOL. III., OCTOBER, 1898. P 



