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the middle of the cost a outwards, ending subterminally in inter- 

 space 4, enclosed between it and the black on the terminal margin 

 is a transverse spot of the ground-colour ; a transverse subterminal 

 black bar also in interspace 2. similarly encloses between it and 

 the black on the terminal margin a spot of the ground-colour. 

 Hind wing : terminal margin neatly bordered with black, which 

 extends for a short distance inwards along each vein. Underside, 

 fore wing : base and disc vermilion-red, apex dusky ochraceous, 

 with a pale ill-defined short bar that limits it on the inner side ; an 

 oblique black band from costa and a short transverse similar band 

 in interspace 2 as on the upperside, but indicated more by trans- 

 parency than by actual scaling. Hind wing : dull ochraceous, 

 darkening to ochraceous red along the terminal margin ; an 

 irregular transverse diffuse purplish band across the disc. An- 

 tennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the d . 



Exp. rf 70-80 mm. (2-76-3-18"). 



Hob. Sikhim ; Assam ; Manipur ; Upper Burma : the Shan 

 States ; Tenasserim ; extending to Siam ; the Malay Peninsula ; 

 Nias Island ; Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo to the Philippines. 



012. Appias hippo, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. iii, 1782, pi. 195, 



figs. A, B ; Moore (Pieris), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 71; 



Watson, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1897, p. 670. 

 Appias vacans, Sutler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 490 ; id. Lep. Exot. 



1872, p. 90, pi. 34, figs. 5, 6. 

 Appias hippoides, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 312; id. Lep. 



2nd. vi, 1905, p. 194, pi. 540, figs. l,la-lg, <5 $, & pi. 541, 



figs. 1, la-lc, rf 2. 

 Appias hippoides, var. epicoena, Swinhoe, P. Z. 8. 1889, p. 398. 



Race andrea. 



Colias andrea, Ersch. in Kotzeb. Reise, iii, 1821, p. 215, pi. 10, 

 figs. 23 a, 236; Wallace (Tachyris), Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, 

 p. 366. 



Appias nicobarica, Moore, Lep. Ind. vi, 1905, p. 198. 



Race taprobana. 



Appias taprobana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 143 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. i, 



1881, p. 135, pi. 52, figs. 1, l-lc, S $, larva & pupa; id. 



Lep. Ind. vi, 1905, p. 198. pi. 541, figs. 2, 2 a-2c, <$ $ . 

 pias vacans, Moore (nee Sutler), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 135, pi. 52, 

 gs. 2, 2 a, d. 

 Appias latifasciata, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 312, J $ ; id. 



Lep. Ind. vi, 1905, p. 199, pi. 541, figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b. 

 Appias aperta, Sutler, A. M. N. H. (5) xviii, 1886, p. 188 ; Moore, 



Lep. Ceyl. iii, 1887,' p. 532. 

 Appias (Catophaga) hippoides, Davidson, Bell Aitken (nee Moore), 



Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1897, p. 574. 



Wet-season brood. 6*. Upperside'. white; along the costal 

 margin of the fore wing and the terminal margin of the hind wing 

 somewhat broadly bluish, due to the black colour of the underside 



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