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terminated by minute brown marginal points ; body blackish-grey 

 above ; head and prothorax greenish olivaceous ; antenna brown 

 with orange tijj. 



Wings below golden yellow, with black discocellular point ; 

 basal costa sparsely irrorated with dark brown ; brown markings 

 of hind wings as in the various nearly allied species of the Drona 

 group ; body below yellow, antennte white ; expanse of wings 

 1 inch 7 lines. 



Sydney. Coll. Brit. Museum. 



This little species has never before been figiu-ed ; in the margin 

 of its fore wings it forms a distinct section of the genus, and comes 

 near the group to which T. Drona, Libythea, Venata, and others 

 belonar. 



Genus Appias, Hubner. 

 PLATE XLIX. Figs, 4, 5. 



APPIAS MELANIA, Fahncius. 

 St/st, EiU. p. 473, u. 128 (1775). 



(? Front wings above creamy-white, pale blue-grey at base ; 

 apical area broadly blackish-brown, deeply bisinuate between the 

 median branches, and almost divided through the centre by an 

 oblique, somewhat arched series of five creamy spots ; hind wings 

 pale blue-grey, a large patch of creamy-white covering costal 

 area, apex and apical part of outer margin broadly blackish-brown 

 and deeply sinuated between the nervures ; body above greenish- 

 grey, abdomen brownish. 



Front wings below creamy-white ; base broadly orange-yellow ; 

 basal half of costa sulphur-yellow ; apex rosy-brown ; otherwise as 

 above ; hind wings rosy-brown, base of costa orange-yellow ; a 

 broad diffused discal olive-brown band, and outside it a series of 



