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Genus ANAPHJEIS. 



Anaphteis, Hilbner, Verz. bek, Schmett. 1816, p. 93. 

 Belenois, Moore (nee Hiibner), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 137. 



Type, A. creona, Cramer, from Africa. 



Range. Africa ; Southern Asia ; Australia. 



d 1 $ . 1'ore wing : costa very slightly arched, nearly straight ; 

 apex slightly produced but more or less obtuse ; terrnen slightly 

 convex ; tornus obtuse ; dorsum sinuous ; cell about half length of 

 wing, vein G out of 7 about one-third from base of 7, upper disco- 

 cellular therefore absent ; middle and lower cliscocellulars oblique ; 

 vein 8 absent, 9 one-third from apex of 7, 10 free, 11 anastomosed 

 with 12. Hind wing pear-shaped ; cell slightly longer than half 

 length of wing; precostal spur curved obliquely outwards. Antennae 

 about half length of wing ; club broad, slightly flattened ; palpi 

 robust, subporrect, third joint short ; eyes naked ; legs slender, 

 .scaled, without long hairs ; abdomen comparatively robust ; claspers 

 in c? long, narrow. 



Key to the forms of Auaphaeis. 



A. $ . Upperside fore wing: apical area 



black with enclosed well-defined elongate 

 white spots ; , these spots more or 

 less obsolescent, tf $ . Underside hind 

 wing: ground-colour more or less yellow 

 or tinged with yellow , . . . A. mesentina, p. 155. 



B. J . Upperside fore wing : as in $ of 



typical form ; with apical area of 

 fore wing entirely black, tf $ . Under- 

 side hind wing: ground-colour a rich 



deep chrome-yellow A. mesentina, rare tapro- 



bana, p. 157. 



581, Anaphaeis mesentina, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. iii, 1782, 

 pi. 270, figs. A, B ; Eollar (Pieris), in Hiicjel'sKaschmir,\\, 1844, 

 p. 409 ; Moore (Pieris), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. i, 1857, p. 72, 

 pi. 12, figs. 9, 9, larva & pura; de N. $ Aitken (Belenois), 

 J. A. S. B. 1896, p. 575 ; Macldnnon Sf de N. (Belenois), Jour, 

 lioinb. N. H. Sac. xi, 1898, p. 590; Moore, Lep. Ind. vi, 1904, 

 p. 158, pi. 527, figs. ] , 1 rt-1 h, larva & pupa, c? $ . 

 Pieris lordaca, Walker, Entomologist, v, 1870, p. 48; Yerbury 



(Belenois), Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii, 1892, p. 216. 

 Belenois aurigenea, Butler, P. Z. S. 1886. p. 374, . 



Race taprobana. 



Pieris taprobana, Moore, P. Z. S. 3872, p. 565 ; id. (Belenois) Lep. 

 Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 137, pi. 53, figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b, <$ 2 ; id. (Anaphajis) 

 Lep. Iml vi, 1904, p. 162, pi. 527, figs. 2, 2 -2 c, J $ , 



