146 PIERIDJE. 



long bristles, the outer bristles black, the middle yellow. Length 

 about 2 laches. Found iu March feeding on the young leaves 

 of the linii/a (Nmtclea ro(undifolia). 



Papa. ^Verydark reddish brown or black, smooth, sinuate; head 

 with three sharp points and a broad truncation in front ; segments 

 of the abdomen and the front with small acute tubercular pro- 

 jections. 



575. Delias thysbe (PI. XVIII, fig. 117), Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. 

 ii\, 1782, p. 70, pi. 233, fig. C $ ; Moore, Lep. Lid. vi, 1904. 

 p. 171, pi. 532, fijjs. 1, la-lc, <J $ . 



Thyca pyranius, Wallace, Tram. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 347 : Elwes 

 (Delias), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 407. 



Race kandha. 



Deliaskandha, Doherty, J. A. S. Beny. 1886, p. 262; Moore, Lep. 

 Ind. vi, 1904, p. 173. 



c? $ . Eeseinbles D. aglaia in both sexes ; the differences,, 

 however, are as follows : Upperside, fore wing : the white spot at 

 apex of cell replaced by an upper and a lower grey scaled spot 

 that crosses the discocellulars, which are black ; the postdiscal series 

 of hastate spots converted into broad greyish diffuse streaks of 

 which the streak in interspace 3 is shifted more inward than 

 the others. In the rf the broad subbasal greyish streaks in inter- 

 spaces 1 and 2 and in the cell are longer than in the $ . Hind 

 wing black ; basal area to middle of cell deep vermilion, traversed 

 by the black veins ; interspaces la. 1 and posterior medial portion 

 of 2 powdered thickly with greyish-white scales in the J ; remainder 

 of interspace 2 bright yellow ; interspaces 3 to 8 with broad 

 diffuse grey streaks that do not reach the termen, the streaks in 

 interspace 5 extend into apex of cell ; in $ similar, but inter- 

 spaces 2 to 5 with still broader yellow streaks, of which those 

 in interspaces 4 and 5 cross over the discocellulars into the apex 

 of the cell. Underside : similar to the upperside, the grey markings 

 paler, almost white ; hind wing in both sexes with the basal 

 vermilion patch extended to the base of the dorsal margin : 

 humeral angle at base of wing with an ochraceous spot ; apex of 

 cell and broad streaks in interspaces 1 to 8 yellow fading to 

 yellowish-white anteriorly : the veins narrowly black, which colour 

 broadens triangularly at their apices and so forms anteriorly a 

 more or less irregular terminal black margin. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen as in D. a<jlaia. 



Exp. d 1 $ 78-92 mm. (3-1-3-6"). 



Hab. Nepal ; Sikhira ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Burma : Tenasserim ; 

 extending to Stain and the Malay Peninsula. 



Mace kandha, Doherty. "Allied to D. pyramws, Wall. (=]). 

 thi/sbe) from Sikhitn. In kandha the ochreous anal area of the hind 

 wing is replaced by pale cream ; the light discal areas on the hind 

 wing below, which in pyramus are ochreous anally and whitish 



