COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 1137 



a^. Hindwing underside: with terminal black band ; 

 male underside forewing : a prominent white 

 or yellow svibapical spot. Size : 2"'5 to S" . . hippo. 

 b^. Hindwing underside : with no terminal band and, 

 in the male forewing underside : no apical 

 white or yellow spot. 

 a^. Male underside : pure white in wet-season 

 form, tinged with ochraceous in dry-season 

 form. 

 «^ Male underside hindwing : immaculate at 



all seasons. Size: 2"-l to 2"-6 . . . . libythea. 



b^. Male underside hindwing : veins more or 

 less broadly black, white only in extreme 

 dry-season form. Size: 2""1 to 2"'7 . . zelmira. 

 V^. Male underside hindwing : yellow or ochrace- 

 ous at all seasons. Size: 2"'38 to 2''-94 . . albina. 

 b. Upperside forewing in the male : outer black mar- 

 gin produced inwardly into interspace 3 (except 

 in dry-season form of leis). 

 a^. Male underside forewing : oblique, curved black 

 band on outer half terminated on vein 2, 

 sometimes reduced to a mere black spot in 

 interspace 3. Size : 1""9 to 2"'6. . . . . leis. 



b^. Male underside forewing: oblique, curved black 

 band on outer half extended to tornal angle 

 or altogether absent. Size : 2" "55 to 3" .. ^oardi. 

 The larvae of all these are very like each other, fairly normal in aspect ; 

 the pupae are of the Ana-phceis type. Foodplant Capers. 



Genus Catopsilia. 



A. Underside: without irroration of transverse reddish- 



brown strise. Size : 1" "8 to 3"' 4 .. ,. ., crocale. (PI. L. 



figs. 72 S , 72a 

 $ 9 of form 

 catilla; 73 c? , 

 73ab 2 9 of 

 crocale.) 



B. Underside: with such irroration. Size: 2" to 2"'75. pyrantJie. (PI, J. 



figs. 64 c?, 64a 



9.) 



The first species is very liable to variation in the amount of black on the 

 upperside in the females ; the males are very constant. 

 Very common butterflies ; fast fliers. 



