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Genus Eronia, Hiibn. 



ERONIA P1NGASA. 



Male. Upperside fuliginous brown : fore wing with a basally 

 divided streak within the cell, short spaces between the veins beneath 

 it, and a narrow streak between the two subcostal veins pale blue, 

 these streaks extending only to the middle of the disk : hind wing 

 with the spaces between the veins from the base to near middle of 

 the disk pale blue. Underside paler fuliginous brown, the mark- 

 ings pale glossy blue, but less prominent than above, there being 

 also a marginal series of pale bluish rounded spots. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Hab. Canara, S. India. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Pieris. 



PlERIS VIPASA. 



Female. Upperside white : fore wing with a large quadrate discal 

 black spot, which is crossed by the discocellular vein ; a black 

 apical patch with four marginal white spots ; a small indistinct 

 dusky spot near posterior angle : hind wing with an ill-defined 

 blackish anterior marginal spot, below which are two white-centred 

 black apical spots, the black of which, however, does not unite on 

 the outer margin ; beyond is a small indistinct blackish marginal 

 spot. Underside : fore wing with greyish-brown markings as 

 above : hind wing with the veins throughout and the base of anterior 

 margin orange-yellow ; greyish-brown markings disposed as in 

 P. daplidice, but with the white intervening parts broader. 



Expanse l-j% inch. 



Hab. Derajat, Punjaub ; N.W. India. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Allied to P. daplidice, specimens of which, both European and 

 from the N.W. Himalayas, are before me. 



PlERIS TAPROBANA. 



Male. Upperside white : fore wing with a broad black marginal 

 band extending from one third before the apex to posterior angle, 

 the inner border being irregular and having two or three small white 

 apical streaks ; base of costa dusky black, discocellular streak 

 black : hind wing with a broad marginal black band, with indistinct 

 white spots ; a black lunule and a spot before the apex. 



Female. Upperside as in male, with the black marginal and costal 

 bands broader, the discocellular streak joining the band by the 

 black extending along the veins and forming three oval white spots," 

 Underside with the bands as above, blackish brown or dark vinous 

 brown, this colour also extending along the veins on the hind wing, 

 the intervening spaces and a series of submarginal triangular spots 

 on this wing and the apical streaks on fore wing being bright orange- 

 vellow ; base of fore wing also suffused with yellow. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hab. Ceylon. In Coll. Capt. Hutchison and F. Moore. 



Allied to P. mesentinu, of which it is the Ceylon representative. 



