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colour and with a broader black border ; beneath, the fore wings 

 are much whiter, the hind wings yellow, with the costal and sub- 

 costal nervures black-bordered. The female is intermediate be- 

 tween aspas'ia and emma, the hind wings being pale dull yellow, 

 with a broad irregular dusky border, and on the under side the 

 veins and markings are purple-brown. 



//a6.— Philippine Islands (Coll. Wall., B. M.). 



A specimen from Hong Kong in the British Museum agrees 

 with this, but is of a reddish-orange tint on the lower wings. 



19. Pieris hester, Vollenhoven. 

 Pier'is hester, Voll. Mon. Pier. p. 24, pi. 4, f. ], ?. 



Male. — Above: upper wings white, with a black border, but the 

 veins much less black-edged than in P. aspasia ; lower wings 

 clear pale orange, with a black border as in P. emma, $ . Beneath, 

 differs from P. aspasia in the same degree as above. 



Female. — Very distinct from P. aspasia by having the disc of the 

 uppers yellowish-white, with a blackish border without white or 

 yellow spots ; the lower wings dusky-orange, with an ill-defined 

 broad dusky border, more or less distinctly notched near the outer 

 angle. 



Hab. — New Guinea, Mysol, Waigiou (Wall.). 



20. Pieris jael, n. sp. 



Male. — Marked as in P. aspasia, but the nervures more clearly 

 defined, and the hind wings clear yellow as in P. /tester, $ , and 

 with a black border slightly wider than in P. aspasia. 



Female. — Differs in nearly the same way from the female of P. 

 aspasia; the colour much paler, and the markings on the under side 

 less diffused. 



Hab.— Bomu (Wall.). 



21. Pieris lea, Doubleday. 



Pieris lea, Doubl. Ann. Nat. Hist, xxvii. p. 23; Gen. Diur, 

 Lep. t. 6, f. 3 (err. P. clemanthe) ; Voll. Mon. Pier. p. 23, $ 

 (the female as P. ainalia, $ ). 



/ia6.— Borneo (Wall.) ; Banca (Voll.). 



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