PTERINS. 127 



Fi'om the above details of the restriction of the LiniiEean Danai to the 

 D. Gandidi, it is evident that the action of these earlier authors must take 

 precedence of that of Latreille. (Conf. Kirby, Joiirn. Linn. Soc. Zool. x. pp. 397-8 

 (1870) ; id. Allen's Nat. Libr. Butt. i. p. 18 (1894) ; id. I.e. ii. p. 142 (1896). Moore, 

 Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 1 (1881) ; id. Lep. Indica, i. p. 8 (1890). 



DANAUS BRASSICiE (Plate 518, fig. 1 cJ, la ? ). 



Po/J. Dancins Brassieie, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. x. ed. p. 467 (1758). Miiller, Faun. Ins. Frid. p. 32 



(1764). Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. ed. p. 758 (1767). Esper, Die Schmett. i. p. 52, pi. 3, fig. 1 



(1777). 

 Pieris Brassieie, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. i. p. 165 (1801). Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 409 



(1844). Elwes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 401; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 416. Mackinnon, Jouni. 



Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 590. 

 Pieris Brassicce var. Nepalensis, Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepal, p. 9, pi. 6, figs. 1, 3 (J $ (1846). Lang, 



Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 103. Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 490; id. 1874, p. 273. 

 Mancijnum NipaJensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 256. 

 Danaus Brassicm, Crotch, Cist. Ent. i. p. 60 (1870). 

 Ganoris Nipalensis, Svvinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 343. Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 376; id. Ann. 



Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 204. 

 Mancipium Brassic/s, de Niccville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 168. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside white. Foreicing with the base and costa slightly 

 greyish-black scaled ; the apex with a broad black posteriorly-decreasing band 

 extending to below the middle median veinlet, its inner margin being excurved and 

 slightly irregular ; occasionally a very few black scales are present in the upper 

 median interspace. Hindimig with a black costal spot. Underside. Foreioimj 

 white, the apical band very pale yellow ; a large quadrate black discal spot between 

 the upper and middle medians, and a more irregular shaped spot between the lower 

 median and submedian. Hindwing very pale yellow, sparsely speckled with minute 

 black scales, these scales being slightly more numerous in the cell area ; extreme 

 basal edge of costa slightly brighter yellow; costal black spot less prominent than 

 on upperside. 



Female. Upperside white. Forewing with the black apical band somewhat 

 broader ; a discal large black quadrate spot between the upper and middle median 

 veinletSj a similar spot between the lower median and submedian, and a more or 

 less elongated streak below the latter vein. Hindwing with a black costal spot 

 which is generally larger than in the male. Underside similar to the male. Body 

 above greyish-black ; thorax clothed with grey hairs ; body beneath white ; front of 

 head, palpi, and legs white; antenna black above, segmented beneath with white, 

 the tip white. 



