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PIERIS EPICHARIS. 

 PLATE VI. Figs. 1 and 2. 



Godart, Boisd Pap. Hyparete, Fabr. — Pap. Eucharis, Drurxfi* 



Insect. PI. 10, fig. 5, 6 Cramer, Fl. 20], fig. B, C $ ; PI. 



202, fig. C?. 



This pretty insect belongs to a sub-division which 

 inhabits the continent of India and the adjacent 

 islands. The wings, which expand about three 

 inches, are white, very faintly tinged with blue, with 

 a broad black border, interrupted by a series of 

 rather larger oval spots, the same as the ground 

 colour on the upper wings, but flesh-colour on the 

 under ; the nervures, on the former, defined by 

 a dilated black line : in the female, this is like- 

 wise the case with the inferior wings. Under side 

 of the primary wings similar to the surface, except 

 three marginal spots towards the apex, which are 

 yellowish in the male and of a bright yellow in the 

 female ; secondary wings bright yellow beneath, the 

 nervures black, and along the hinder border a row 

 of large oval, or somewhat heart-shaped, scarlet 

 spots, placed in a white circle ; body whitish. 



Common in Bengal, and many places in the more 

 eastern parts of Asia. 



