PAPILTONID^E.-PIERIN^. 



ELODIXA. I. 



I.— ELODINA UMBRATICA. s . Figs. 1, 2. ? . Fig. 8. 



Elodina riiihnitira, Henley Grose Smith, " Entomologist's Monthly Maga- 

 zine," vol. 25, p. 3U2 (June, 1889). 



Exp. 1| inches. 



" Male. Upperside white ; anterior wings with the base, basal part of the 

 cell, and costal margin as far as the middle, broadly grey, thence along the costa 

 narrowly grey, until it joins a l)road apical and outer marginal dark grey band, 

 which on its inner edge at the upi)er median nerAule is slightly sinuate ; the 

 band tapers towards the i)Osterior angle. 



" Underside white, slightly tinged at the base of both wings and at the apex 

 of anterior wings with greenish-yellow ; the dark apical area on the upperside of 

 anterior wings is indistinctly visible." Costa of anterior wings dusted with grey 

 at the base, and hind margin edged with a l)lack line. Antenna, black, ringed 

 with white. 



''Female. Upperside resembles the male, but is greyer. 



" Underside, with the base, costal and outer margins, and apex of anterior 

 wings, and the whole of the posterior wings, stramineous." (H. G. S., Inc. cit.) 



Hab. Ulawa Island, Solomon Islands (C. M. Woodford). 



" Nearest to E. Bournensis, Wall, ami E. Hypatia, Feld., but wings more elongated, esjjecially 

 iu the female ; they also differ on the underside." 

 In the Collection of H. Grose Smith. 



II.— ELODINA CTIEINAEIS. $ . Figs. 4, 5. 



Exp. 1-j^ inches. 



3Iale. Upperside lemon-yellow, anterior wings dusted with grey at the 

 base ; costa bordered with l)lackish above the subcostal nervure nearly to the 

 end of the cell, and thence rather more narrowly till it meets the moderately 



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