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apically, are, in kandha, of an almost uniform bright yellow hue, 

 inclining to lemon ; the ochre spofc at the base of the hind wing 

 below is much larger and more distinct ; the apical grey streaks of 

 the fore wing above are obscurely tinged with ochreous. All 

 the pale marks are larger, and the black areas smaller and better 

 defined. The female hardly differs from the male. 



" Exp. 98 mm. 



" Hob. Madras, Vizagapatam:' (pclierty .) 



Unknown to me. 



576. Delias agostina (PL XVII, fig. 112), Heioitson (Pieris), Exot. 

 Butt, i, Pieridce, 1852, pi. 1, figs. 1, 2, rf; Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1888, p. 408; Moore (Piccarda), Lep. 2nd. vi, 1905, p. 181, 

 pi. 535, figs. 1, 1 -l c, d $ . 



Race agoranis. 



Delias agoranis, Grose-Smith, A. M. N. H. (5) xx, 1887, p. 226 ; 

 Moore (Piccarda), Li-p. Ind. vi, 1005, p. 182, pi. 535, figs. 2, 2 a, rf . 



c? . Upperside: white. Fore wing: costa narrowly, apex 

 broadly shaded with black, the shading so arranged as to leave on 

 the latter a conspicuous curved series of oval outwardly-pointed 

 spots of the ground-colour, that increase in size from the spot in 

 interspace 3 to the spot in interspace 6, the subcostal spot above 

 small again ; the black shading on the apex is continued slightly 

 inwards along the veins, while its width varies somewhat in 

 different specimens. Hind wing uniform, unmarked, or with the 

 merest trace of black scaling that forms spots along the terminal 

 margin; the colour of the underside seen through by trans- 

 parency gives a pink tinge to the basal and dorsal areas and a 

 faint bluish tint to the terminal margin. Underside : fore wing 

 white, the costa more broadly black than on the upperside, the 

 whole of the veins bordered broadly with black ; a subapical curved 

 broad bar from costa to vein 2, black. Hind wing bright canary- 

 yellow, costa narrowly white ; terminal margin with an even 

 moderately broad border, dusky black, and with a superposed 

 series of irregular white lunular marks. 5 Upperside : fore wing 

 entirely shaded with black, sometimes very dark, almost completely 

 black (wet-season form ?), the curved preapical series of white 

 spots as in the <3 . Hind wing : sometimes canary-yellow, some- 

 times white with a pink tinge from the colour of the underside 

 showing through ; terminal margin more or less broadly black, with 

 a marginal series of white spots in the interspaces. Underside : as 

 in the 3 , but the white spots on the terminal black border of the 

 hind wing larger. Antennae in both sexes black ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen white shaded with fuscous black. 



Exp. J $ 66-70 mm. (2-6-2-76"). 



Hob. Eastern Himalayas ; Nepal ; Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma ; 

 Tenasserim, extending to Siam. 



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