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THE COMMON BUTTEEFLIES OF THE PLAINS 

 OF INDIA. 



(INCLUDING THOSE MET WITH IN THE HILL STATIONS 

 OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY). 



BY 



T. R. Beli, i.p.s. 



(Continued from ;page 103 of Volume XXIII.) 



Part XVII. 



(With Plate G.) 



Note on the Piekid^. 



In regard to the coloured pictures of the butterflies belonging to the 

 ■family Pieridse in plates I, J, K, and L, there is little to be said. They 

 are, generally, very good indeed. The following might be noted : — 



Leptosia xiyphia. — PI, I, figure 58. Is very good, except that the white is 

 not pure enough on the upperside, the brown has too much of red in it. 



Delias eucharis. — PI. I, figures 59, male ; 59a, female. It is the same with 

 this again : the brown has too much red everywhere and the yellow of the 

 underside is not clear enough. 



Anaphcsis mesentina. — PI. I, figures 60, male ; 60a, female. The male is 

 very good except that the brown is not black enough ; the yellow of the 

 underside of the hind wing in the female is too red-soiled. 



Huphina pJiryne. — PI. I, figures 61, male ; 61a, female. The male is too 

 yellow on the upperside ; it should be pure white. The female is better but 

 the anal margin of the upperside of the hind wing is too yellow ; the under- 

 side of hind wing is too soiled, the yellow is not clear enough. 



Ixias pyrene. — PI. J, "figures 65, male; 65a, female. In the female figure 

 the underside is too red in tone, the markings are browner ; the upperside is, 

 perhaps, also, not clear enough, the base of the costa of fore wing is too red. 



Ixias marianne. — PI. I, figure 62, male ; PI. J, figure Q5b, female. The 

 male is very good. In the female the broad border of the hind wing on the 

 upperside is not black enough ; the base of fore wing on the upperside is not 

 clear enough grey. There has been a mistake made here evidently, for the 

 artist mistook figure 656 for a form' of the female of I. pyrene. 



Catopsilia. — PI. L. Here the yellows and whites of the uppersides are 

 good, being pure and clear ; however the yellows of the undersides of 

 figures 72a, b and 73a are again too red. 



Terias. — PI. K, figure 69, Terias Icsta, is too red altogether both above 

 and below; the same might be said about 70a, but it is the usual fault of 

 the process. 



Pareronia Jiippia. — PI. I, figures 63, male ; 63a, female. Here the male 

 upperside is not clear enough blue, the veins are not black enough ; the 

 female underside is too red. 



The figures of Colotis, PI. J, figures 6m, 67a and 68, as well as those of 

 Hebomoia ylaucippe, figures 66, male, 66a, female on the same plate are very 

 perfect. 



In the description of Colotis eucharis should be added that the male 

 upperside fore wing has the veins in the immediate vicinity of the orange 

 apical patch sometimes touched with black so as to form a more or less con- 

 tinuous inner black edging ; that the orange patch at apex of fore wing in 

 the female is sometimes wanting, its place being taken by the white ground- 

 colour. In the female the inner black bordering to this patch is always 

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