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C.JloreUa (cont.). G. pyranthe (cont.). 



<J . Upperside : markings on fore <5 . Uppcrside : markings on fore 

 wing brownish red, rarely dusky wing always black ; on termen 

 black ; on termen always more not macular but formed into a 

 or less macular, the spots some- continuous black band always 

 times connected slenderly along sensibly narrowed posteriorly, 

 the extreme margin, the markings Iliud wing with no terminal line, 

 not narrowed posteriorly. Hind or if present black, sometimes 

 wing generally with a very slen- macular, generally ill-defined and 

 der terminal yellowish-pink line. diffuse. 



$ . Upperside : markings as in tf , $ . Upperside : markings always 

 the terminal macular band on much broader than in the J 5 

 fore wing not broader. terminal black band sometimes 



rery broad down to vein 3, then 

 suddenly contracted and narrowed 

 to tornal angle. 



These differences as enumerated are slight, but they are con- 

 stant, and give to the two insects a facies markedly different one 

 from the other. 



Exp. <S $ 52-74 mm. (2-06-2-92"). 



Hab, Within our limits recorded from the N.W. Himalayas ; 

 Dliarmsala; Karachi; the Punjab; Sikhim ; Bengal; Nilgiris ; 

 Western India; Mysore; Assam; Burma; Ceylon. Occurs to 

 the west through a great part of Africa to Sierra Leone in the 

 west, to Nyassaland in the east ; Aden ; Socotra ; Persia and 

 Afghanistan. Further east it is found in Siam and China. 



Larva. " Ground-colour pea-green, a black interrupted but very 

 distinct lateral stripe, and below it a broader stripe of an orange- 

 yellow colour ; the larva is rough but not hairy, the whole of the 

 back and head covered with minute black spots ; length when full 

 grown about 1-5 inches." (Nurse.) 



Pupa. " Pattern and colouring very like that of the larva, but 

 the green apparently more uniform and (except on the wing-cases) 

 inclining to glaucous ; yellow lateral stripe paler; acute cephalic 

 projection tipped with reddish brown ; attached to various bushes, 

 grasses, &c." (Trimen.) 



25. Catopsilia SCylla, Linn. (Papilio) Cent. Ins. 1763, p. 20 ; Cramer 

 (Papilio), Pap. Exot. i, 1775, pi. 12, figs. C, D, <$ ; Boisduval 



Distant, Rhop. Malay. 1885, p. 298, pi. 24, figs. 1, 2-d 1 ; de N. 

 $ Martin, J. A. S. B. 1895, p. 493. 

 Callidryas gorgophone, Doubleday, Westiv. & Sew. Gen. Di. Len. 



i,1847,p 68, pi. 9,%. 2rf. " 



c? . Upperside, fore wing : white, a narrow black line on costa 

 that commences just beyond the base, widens at apex to a broad 

 margin, and is continued down the termen to the tornal angle as 

 an inwardly dentate black band of nearly even widrh throughout. 

 Hind wing : rich cadmium-yellow, slightly paler towards the base, 



