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ANTHOCHARIS DAN^. 

 PLATE VII. Fig. 2. 



Boisd. — Pap. Danse, Fubr., Donov. Insects of India, PI. 1, fig. 2- 



—Pap. Eborea, Cramer, PI. 352, fig. C, D, E, F Pieris 



Danae, Godart. — Pontia Danae, Horsfield, Insects of hid. 

 Comp., p. 141, 68. 



Surface of the male pure white ; the upper wings 

 having a large triangular patch of bright carmine at 

 the extremity bounded on the inner side by a black 

 oblique band, and narrowly margined with the same 

 colour externally, where the nervures are likewise 

 black; there is likewise a black point at the ex- 

 tremity of the discoidal cell : under wings with a 

 black border, variable in breadth, and occasionally 

 macular. Under side impure white, with a black 

 streak at the extremity of all the discoidal cells, 

 those on the hinder wings divided by a reddish 

 brown point ; the apex of the upper wings fulvous- 

 red, divided by a curved row of blackish spots, con- 

 tinued across the under wings as far as the anal 

 angle. The female differs from the male in having 

 a large space at the base of the wings dusky, and 



