Eastern Plcridcr. 385 



patch. Beneath, the colouring is nearly as in the larger male 



specimens. The body is wanting, but the smooth costa shows it 



it to be a female. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Hab. — N. India, Darjeeling, Moulmein (Coll. Moore, Wall., 

 B. M.). 



A very puzzling species, but in most specimens quite distinct 

 from P. tliestylis, and always smaller and of a different colour. 

 If the extreme form only remained (and it seems now most nu- 

 merous) it would not be thought very closely allied to the species 

 from which we can now hardly separate it. 



3. Prioneris sita, Felder. 

 Fleris sita, Feld. Voy. Novara, p. 161, tab. xxv. f. 12. 



Wings broad, the uppers triangular, with the outer margin 

 straight. 



Male. — Above, white ; the upper wings with the veins black 

 and gradually thickened towards the outer margin, where they 

 spread and unite in a border ; lower wings with the veins black 

 and thickened near the outer and hind margin, only dilated at the 

 ends and connected by a narrow black edge ; there is a very faint 

 dusky wavy line parallel to the outer margin on both wings. 

 Beneath, as above, but the veins black and thickened on both 

 wings, the apex of the uppers and the whole disc of the lower 

 wings bright yellow, and round the hind margin of the latter a 

 row of six light cinnabar-red spots, separated from the disc by a 

 narrow black border, the spots narrowly bordered and notched 

 with white. 



Expanse of wings 3| inches. 



//at.— Ceylon (B. M., Coll. Wall. & Moore). 



This remarkable species so closely resembles in marking and 

 colour the common Thyca cucluiris of India, more especially on the 

 under surface, that it might easily be mistaken for it. I had de- 

 scribed it as P. eucharoides before receiving Dr. Felder's work, 

 and fear that Mr. Moore's name of seta for an allied species will 

 create some confusion. 



4. Prioneris clemanthe, Doubleday. 



Pieris clemanthe, Doubl. Ann. Nat. Flist. xvii. p. 23. 



P.Helferi, Feld. Voy. Novara, p. ICl, tab. xxv. f. 10, 11. 



Hab. — North India (Coll. Saunders and Wall.). 

 Dr. Felder's figure seems to represent only a slight modification 

 of the ordinary form of this species. 



