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THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS 

 OF INDIA 



(INCLUDING THOSE MET. WITH IN THE HILL STATIONS 

 OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY). 



BY 



T. R. Bell, i.f.s. 



Part XII. 



With Plates I and J. 



(Contimied froin ixige 766 of this Volume.^ 



Family— PIERID^ . 



The members of this family are so subject to variation in the amount of 

 marking on the wings that it is impossible to make a key to the genera 

 without reference to the venation of the wings and other characters which 

 offer difficulties to amateurs. 



A. Forewing with all 12 veins present. 



a. Male pale blue with black border on upperside, 

 female somewhat like Danuis limniace in style 

 of marking . . , , . . . . . . . . Parervnia. 



h. Male lemon yellow, female sulpher yellow on 



upperside , . . . , . . . . . . . Synchloe. 



B. Forewing with only 10 veins (veins 8 and 9 absent), 

 a. Of small size : 1" to 2" ; underside hindwing with 



no red terminal border . . . . . . . . Leptosia. 



(Fig. 15.) 



Fig. 15. 



b. Larger : 2"*6 to 'd"'i ; underside with red terminal 



border to hindwing . . . . . . . . Delicti 



