PIERIS. 175 



596. Pieris krueperi, Staudmyer, Wien. ent. Monats. iv, 1860, p. 19. 



Race devta. 



Mancipium devta, de Niceoille, J. A. S. B. 1883, p. 82, pi. 9, 

 figs. 9, 9, c? 2; Moore (Danaus), Lep. Ind. vi, 1904, p. 130, 

 pi. 518, figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b, rf $ . 



Race devta, de Niceville. J . Upperside : dead white. Tore 

 wing : a narrow band of irrorated black scales along basal portion 

 of costa ; a wedge-shaped short costal black spot before the apex ; 

 apex black ; that colour continued along the anterior portion of 

 the terinen as a series of inwardly-pointed triangular coalescent 

 spots at apices of veins 4 and 5 ; lastly, a large black spot in 



the outer half of interspace 3. 

 Hind wing : a black costal spot 

 just before the apex, otherwise 

 uniform white. Underside : 

 ground-colour similar. Fore 

 wing : black markings similar to 

 those on the upperside, but the 

 black at apex and on termen 

 replaced anteriorly by a dull 

 Fig. 45. Pieris kreuperi, faint wash of ochraceous or 



race devta. greenish yellow. Hind wing : 



basal two-thirds irrorated more 



or less thickly with black scales, with the exception of a short, very 

 broad, inwardly oblique band of the ground-colour, that extends 

 from the middle of the costa to within the upper portion of the 

 discoidal cell ; the outer margin of the area irrorated with black 

 scales is transverse from costa to interspace 5, thence curved 

 outwards to vein 4 and obliquely to vein 1 a. Antenna? brown, 

 paler at their apices ; head fuscous ; thorax and abdomen black ; 

 beneath : whitish. 2 . Upperside : similar to that in the <5 , but the 

 black markings on the fore wing broader, more conspicuous and 

 extended lower along the termen than in the J ; on the hind wing 

 the black costal spot larger, with in most specimens a well-marked 

 spot also in interspace 3, and in many a series of detached terminal 

 black spots at the apices of the veins. These markings are very 

 prominent in some specimens from Quetta. Underside: as in 

 the c? . Fore wing : the additional black spot in interspace 1 

 small, the black spot in interspace 3 very large. Hind wing : 

 the terminal series of black spots of the upperside diffuse, more 

 or less continuous or coalescing and washed over with a greenish 

 tint. Antennae, thorax and abdomen as in the tf . 

 Exp. rf 2 44-54 mm. (1-72-2-14"). 

 Hob. Ladakh; Baluchistan; Pishin. 



597. Pieris daplidice, Linn. (Papilio) Syst. Nat. ed. x, i, 1758, 



p. 468; Fabr. (Pontia) IlKy. May. vi, 1807, p. 283; Godf. 

 Encycl. Meth. ix, 1819, p. 128 ; Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 

 i, 1857, p. 75 ; Sutler (Synchloe), P. Z. S. 1880, p. 410 ; 



