280 PIERIUjE. 



Hob. Almost throughout Continental India, except the desert- 

 tracts ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



660. Pareronia pingasa (PI. XVIII, fig. 124), Moore (Eronia), 

 P. Z. S. 1872, p. 565 ; Butler (Nepheronia), P. Z. S. 1881, p. 612 ; 

 Davidson fy Aitken (Nepheronia), Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. y, 



1890, p. 357 ; Ferguson (Nepheronia), Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vi, 



1891, p. 445. 



Nepheronia coinpacta, Butler, Cist. Ent. \, 1874, p. 235. 



Eronia naraka, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 591. 



Eronia Valeria, var. naraka, Wood-Mason $ de N., J. A. S. J?.;i880, 



p. 237. 

 Nepheronia fraterna, Davidson, Bdl <$ Aitken (nee Moore), Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1897, p. 573. 



Kesembles P. Jiippia, Fabr., in colour and in the disposition of 

 the markings, but differs as follows : <S . Upperside : ground- 

 colour a deeper blue. Fore wing : the terminal black border 

 much broader generally, entirely without the transverse sub- 

 terminal series of bluish-white spots ; in a few specimens there 

 are one or two of these spots present, but nothing like the series 

 so conspicuous in hippia. Hind wing : the terminal black border 

 very broad, narrowing slightly but distinctly towards the tornal 

 angle. Proportionately this border is even broader than in the 

 fore wing. Underside : as in hippia. $ . Closely resembles the $ 

 of P. hippia, but on the upperside the outer black margins beyond 

 the discal markings on both fore and hind wings are propor- 

 tionately much broader, the transverse subterminal series of spots 

 that crosses the wing is further from the terminal edge. On the 

 underside the terminal black borders are broader and darker, the 

 subterminal series of spots on apex of the fore and on the hind wing 

 absent or so very thickly overlaid with the dusky brownish-black 

 of the terminal margin as to be very indistinct and blurred. 

 Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen in both sexes much as in 

 P. Jiippia. 



Exp. 3 $ 78-86 mm. (3-10-3-38"). 



Hub. Southern India : Kanara,Nilgiris, Mysore, Malabar, Cochin, 

 Travancore ; South Andaman Islands. 



Larva. " Long, cylindrical or slightly depressed and tapering 

 slightly from the head, which is large, to the tail which ends in 

 two short strong spines clothed with bristles. The body is 

 clothed with very minute hairs. Colour green, with a lateral row 

 of conspicuous white spots from the 5th to the 12th segment 

 and rows of smaller spots on the back. Food-plant, Capparis 

 " 



Pupa. " Suspended by the tail and by a very long band ...... 



thoracic portion bent back almost at right angles to the abdo- 

 minal ; head produced into a very long sharp snout ; wing-cases 

 forming a keel nearly half an inch in depth, and so thin as to 

 be almost transparent. Colour uniform pale watery green." 

 (Davidson <Sf Aitken.) 



