Eastern Pieridce. 329 



P. gl'icma and its allies, and altogether absent in P. daplidice and 

 in some South American species. In P. mesenlina, P. teutonia, 

 the African P. severina, and a few allied sjiecies, the first branch 

 of the subcostal anastomoses with the costal, but in others closely 

 allied, as P. coronea, they remain distinct. As thus restricted, 

 the genus comprises about a hundred and twenty species distri- 

 buted over every part of the globe. I divide the Eastern species 

 into groups characterized by peculiarities of colouration, form, or 

 unimportant details of structure, as follows : — 



a. Coronea group. Anal valves of male terminating in a horny 



point or spine; club of antennae rather 

 abrupt ; fore wings elongate ; hind wings 

 beneath white or yellow, with the nervures 

 more or less black and dilated. 



b. Aspasia group. Anal valves of male ovate ; club of antennae 



slender ; wings generally broad ; hind wings 

 yellow or green beneath. 



c. Cynis group. Wings white, pearly, delicate, broad. 



d. Gliciria group. Wings rather elongate ; club of antennae 



rather abrupt; third subcostal nervule very 

 short or wanting. 



e. Agathon group. Wings ample ; club of antennae ovate, flat- 



tened ; palpi short ; front very hairy j 

 third subcostal of moderate length. 



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a. Coronea group. 



1 . P'teris mesenlina, Cramer. 



Papilio mesenlina, Cr. 270 A, B. Pieris mesenlina, Bd. Sp. Gen. 



p. 501. 



Hah. — India (North and South) and Ceylon. 



Some Ceylonese and Indian specimens have the female yellow- 

 tinged above, and the lower wings beneath of a rich ochre-yellow 

 colour. The males do not differ. 



2. Pieris teutonia, Fabricius. 



Papilio teutonia, Fab. Syst. Ent. III. i. p. 199 ; Don. Ins. N. H. i. 

 pi. 17, fig. 1. Pieris teulonia, Bd. Sp. Gen. p. 473. 



//flfc.— Australia (Coll. Wall., B. M.). 



Boisduval gives '* Timor and New Guinea" also as habitats of 

 this species ; but as P. coronea inhabits Timor, this has probably 



