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Hob. Sikhim ; Lower Bengal ; Orissa ; Assam ; Burma ; 

 Tenasserim ; extending into Siam and China to the east, and 

 southwards to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



Race andrea, Erscholtz. A slightly differentiated form scarcely 

 established, even as a local race, as yet. It is sufficiently charac- 

 terized in the key to the forms (supra). 



Exp. c? ? 68-76 mm. (2-66-3"). 



Hab. Recorded within our limits from the Nicobars. Found in 

 the Philippines. 



Race taprobana, Moore. Wet-season brood (latifasciata, Moore). 

 cT . Closely resembles the wet-season form of typical hippo, but 

 the colours are brighter ; the black terminal bordering to the 

 wings on both upper and under sides broader, especially on the 

 underside of the hind wing, the yellow also on this wing is of a 

 deeper, more vivid tint. It can, moreover, be discriminated from 

 hippo tf at once by the subcostal vein and veins 6, 7 and 8 where 

 they cross the yellow ground-colour, which are not cnocolorous but 

 conspicuously edged with black scales, these latter often form a 

 broad streak along the basal half of vein 7. $ . Does not differ 

 materially from the wet-season form of the $ of hippo. In the 

 few specimens of the females of this race that I have had an 

 opportunity of examining, the dusky purplish-brown on the ter- 

 minal half of the hind wing on the underside has always been 

 broader than in the females of typical hippo. 



Dry-season brood. <$ . Can be separated from the typical form 

 as follows: Upperside fore wing : vein 6 more or less broadly 

 edged or denned with black. Underside hind wing: terminal 

 black border much broader ; subcostal vein and veins 7 and 8 

 black, not concolorous with the yellow ground-colour. $ . Differs 

 only from the $ of hippo by the greater width of the purplish 

 black terminal margin of the hind wing on the underside. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen in both sexes as in typical 

 hippo. 



Exp. d 1 $ 64-76 mm. (2-5-3"). 



Hab. Southern India : Malabar; Travancorc ; Ceylon. 



Larva and pupa. " We have bred from May to December on 

 capers. The eggs are laid in clusters. The larva and pupa are 

 not very different from those of the last species (A. libythea, supra); 

 the pupa may be distinguished from the last by the second segment 

 being produced laterally into a tongue-like process which embraces 

 the shoulder." (Davidson, Bell $ Aitken.) 



613. Appias indra, Moore (Pieris), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, 

 p. 74 ; Wood-Mason 8f de Niceville (Hyposcritia), J. A. S. B. 1886, 

 p. 372; Elwes (Tachyris), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 419; Moore 

 (Hyposcritia), Lep. Ind. vi, 1905, p. 226, pi. 549, ficrs. 1, la-lh, tf $ . 

 Hyposcritia shiva, Sicinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 138, pi. 9, figs. 1, 2; 

 'Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, 1886, p. 49. 



