SYNONYMY OF SOME SPECIES OF INDIAN PIERINZ. 499 
as stated by Swinhoe in his description of A. reteata, nor are the apical 
white spots of the female of A. zelmira at all constant or invariably 
present as implied by Swinhoe in his description above quoted. The 
females of the dry-season forms of the two species approach each other 
very closely, but even in these the underside of the female of A. zelmira 
appears to be invariably more richly marked than that of A. libythea, 
Section CATOPHAGA. 
There are some fifteen named forms of Catophaga from the Indian 
region in the national collection, which may be compared as below :-— 
A. Male, upperside red. 
C. aauBa, Wallace, In the B. M. from Manipur and Sylhet. 
B. Male, upperside white ; underside, hindwing with no black mar- 
ginal band. 
a. Male, base of forewing broadly irrorated with bluish-grey. 
a. No large black spot in upper median interspace in the male, 
a®, Male, apical border of forewing black extending broadly 
to outer angle, enclosing a curved series of well- 
defined apical white spots. Underside, male, pale 
yellow ; female, pearly-white. 
C, warpi, Moore. In the B. M. from the Nilgiris, 
b?, Male, apex of forewing irrorated with greyish, enclosing 
a row of ill-defined whitish spots. Underside, male, 
pale yellow ; female, pearly-white. 
C. neomso, Boisduval. In the B. M. from the Nilgiris. 
b', A large black spot in upper median interspace in the male. 
C. aLopr, Wallace. 
6. Male, base of forewing slightly or not at all irrorated with 
bluish-grey. 
a’, Male with a black spot in upper median interspace of the 
forewing on the underside. 
C. ROEPSTORFFII, Moore. In the B. M. from Camorta, 
b', Male with no black spot in upper median interspace of the 
forewing on the underside. 
a*, Male, apex of forewing broadly irrorated with greyish, 
enclosing no white spots. Underside, male and female, 
hindwing and apex of forewing deep ochreous-yellow. 
