Eastern Pier ides. 375 



Female. — Above, exactly like T. Jacqulnolii, $, but the black 

 posterior border is not regularly scalloped between the nervures. 

 Beneath, upper wings marked as in T. celeslina ? , but tinged 

 with greenish-yellow, the tip deep ochre-yellow ; lower wings 

 ochre-yellow, the band and obscure submarginal spots (sometimes 

 obsolete) as in T. celeslina 2. 



ITab.—Cei-am (Coll. Wall, and W. W. Saunders). 



If I have rightly paired the sexes of T, celeslina, then this is 

 no doubt the female of J*. Clementina, Amboina and Ceram hav- 

 ing in almost every case the same species of insects. 



30. Tachyris cithama, Lucas. (PI. IX. fig. 1, ^.) 



Pieris athama, Luc. Rev. & Mag. de Zool. 1852, p. 336, 2 ; Voy. 



an Pol. Sud, Lep. pi. 1, f. 10, 11 ; Voll. Mon. Pier. p. 36. 



Female. — Upper wings pointed, outer margin concave. Above, 

 deep sulphur-yellow, sometimes orange-tinged ; costal margin 

 dusky, a broad jet-black marginal band forming a large triangle 

 at tlie apex of the uppers, its inner border notched and enclosing 

 three yellow spots, two close together near the apex, and one near 

 the middle of the margin ; band of the lower wings angulated 

 within, leaving a narrow toothed yellow edging near the outer 

 angle, and terminating at the anal angle. Beneath : disc of upper 

 wings yellow, their base orange, their tip violet, with three whitish 

 spots at the edge of the transverse notched black band ; lower 

 wings pearly-white, with a broad marginal band, violet without 

 and nearly black within, a small spot on the outer and anal angles, 

 and an edging along the inner margin rich chrome-yellow. 



Expanse of wings 2^ — 2| inches. 



Hab.—^ew Caledonia (B. M., Coll. Hew.); '' Balaou, N. 

 Guinea" (Jacquinot), 



A very beautiful insect, near the female of T. celeslina. Lucas 

 describes it as " blanc jauntitre" above, and it is so represented in 

 the " Voy. au Pol. Sud," which also gives the hind border too 

 narrow, so that the insect is hardly recognizable. 



31. Tachyris cynisca, n. sp. 

 Female. — Wings triangular, somewhat acute. Above, white, 

 with a blackish border from the middle of the costa to the anal 

 angle, of the same form on the uppers as in T. Jacquinotii $, base 

 of uppers dusky-grey, deepening along the costa into the border, 

 two very indistinct pale spots near the apex. Beneath : uppers 



