182 PIEBID.E. 



upper half of subcostal. Hind wing : short and broad ; costa 

 arched ; apex broadly rounded ; termen very slightly convex ; 

 tornus strongly curved, obtuse ; dorsum slightly convex ; cell 

 elongate ; discocellulars very oblique ; precostal spur or vein stout, 

 simple, inclined obliquely outwards. Antennae slender, less than 

 half length of fore wing, club very gradual ; palpi subporrect, 

 basal joints fringed anteriorly with slender hairs, third joint 

 stout, closely scaled, acute ; body moderately stout. 



Key to the forms of Huphina. 



A. <5 $ . Upperside hind wing : broadly 



orange at tornal angle H. lea, p. 182 



B. c?$. Upperside hind wing: not broadly 



orange at tornal angle, more or less 

 concolorous with rest of wing. 



a. Underside hind wing : veins more or 



less broadly bordered or dilated with 

 dusky black. 



a'. Underside hind wing: ground-colour 

 of greater extent than the dilated 



veins H. nerissa, p. 183. 



&'. Underside hind wing : ground-colour 

 of less extent than the dilated 

 veins H. nerissa, race lichenosa, 



b. Underside hind wing : veins not [p. 187. 



bordered or dilated with dusky 

 black. 



a'. Underside hind wing : a broad white 

 streak or streak paler than ground- 

 colour, occupies greater portion of 



cell . H. nadina (typical), p. 188. 



'. Underside hind wing : a large 

 whitish spot or spot paler than 

 ground-colour, occupies only apex 



of cell H. nadina, race andamana, 



c'. Underside hind wing : ground- [p. 190. 



colour uniform, no spot or streak 



of other colour in cell H. nadina, race remba, 



[p. 190. 



603. Huphina lea (PL XVII, fig. 110), Doubleday (Pieris), 

 A. M. N. H. (2) xvii, 1846, p. 23 ; Moore (Pieris), Cat. Lep. 

 M'us. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 77 ; Moore, Lep. 2nd. vi, 1904, p. 213, 

 pi. 545, figs. 1, la, 16, rf$. 



d . Upperside : white. Fore wing : base, the costal, subcostal 

 and median veins slightly irrorated with black scaling; apical 

 half of costal margin increasingly to apex and thence decreasingly 

 to tornus jet-black, the inner margin of the black diffuse and 

 slightly produced along the veins. Hind wing: termen narrowly 

 jet-b lack ; tornal area broadly bright orange, succeeded along the 



