SYXCHLOE. HUPHIITA. 



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spotted with black, a lunate black disco-cellular spot and an inner 

 and an outer sinuous black, preapical, oblique 

 band. Hind wing: uniform, immaculate, but 

 the pattern of the underside shows through by 

 transparency. Underside, fore wing : creamy 

 white, costa spotted with minute black dots ; 

 discocellular, lunate, black spot centred with 

 white ; apex checkered with dark brown, the 

 brown overlaid with greenish-yellow scales, the 

 interspaces silvery. Hind wing : irregular, 

 more or less transverse bands and lines of dark 

 brown overlaid with greenish-yellow scales, the 

 interspaces shining silvery white. Antennae 

 white, head and thorax dark fuscous grey, 

 abdomen white ; beneath : head, thorax and 

 abdomen white. $ . Differs from the <5 only 

 in the apex of the fore wing, which is more 

 rounded. 



Exp. rf $ 34-46 mm. (1-34- 1-82"). 

 Hab. Within our limits, the Western Himalayas : Chitral ; 



Kunawur, G-oorais Valley ; the Punjab : Attock bridge, Khairabad. 



Fig. 47. 

 SyncUoe belia, 

 race daphalis. 



Genus HUPHINA. 



Huphina, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 136; Watson, Jour. Bomb. 

 N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, p. 494. 



Type, If. coronis, Cramer=T. nerissa, Fabr., from India. 

 Range. India, south of the lower ranges of the Himalayas ; 



Ceylon ; the Andamans ; Nicobars ; Assam ; Burma ; Siam ; 

 Malayan Peninsula, and all the 

 islands of the Malayan Subregion 

 down to Australia and New Cale- 

 donia. 



d $ . Fore wing : costa arched, 

 more strongly so than in Appias, 

 apex blunt ; termen straight ; tornus 

 rounded ; dorsum straight, about three- 

 fourths the length of the costa ; cell 

 typically slightly longer (in some 

 forms slightly shorter) than half length 

 of fore wing ; vein 6 given off from 

 lower side of 7 well beyond apex of 

 cell, upper discocellular therefore 

 absent ; middle discocellular concave, 

 not much shorter than the lower ; 

 lower slightly concave, oblique, more 

 or less attenuated anteriorly ; ve n 8 



absent, 9 from base of apical fourth of 7, 10 and 11 free, from 



Fig. 48. Huphina, venation. 



