136 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Habitat. Japan. — Dannns Megamera (Syuchloe Megamera, Butler, Cist. Eutora. i. 

 p. 173 (1873). P. Melete, mr. Megamera, Leech, I.e. ii., p. 449, pi. 43, fig. 3, 4, c? ? 

 (1894). Habitat. Hakodadi, Japan. — Danaus Dulcinea (Ganoris Dulcinea, Butler, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 18). P. Melete, var. Dulcinea, Leech, I.e. ii. 

 p, 450. Habitat. Corca. — Danaus Orientis (Pieris Napi, var. Orientis, Oberthiir, 

 Etudes Ent. v. p. 13 (1880). P. Melete, var. Orientis, Leech, I.e. ii. p. 450. 

 Habitat. Askold. — Danaus Erutse (Pieris Erutge, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1838, 

 p. 19). P. Melete, var. Erutfe, Leech, I.e. ii. p. 450 (1894). Habitat. Moupin.— 

 Danaus Veris (Pieris Melete, var. Veris, Staudinger, Rom. Mem. Lep. iii. p. 126, 

 pi. 16, fig. 1, 2 (1887). Leech, I.e. p. 451. Habitat. Amm-land.— Danaus Man- 

 darina (Pieris Melete, var. Mandarina, Leech, I.e. ii. p. 451 (18'.)4). Habitat. 

 W. China. — Danaus extensa (Pieris Erut£e, var. extensa, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 1888, p. 19). Pieris extensa, Leech, I.e. ii. p. 454, pi. 36, figs. 4, 6, (J ? , ib. pi. 43, 

 fig. 0, S (1894). Sijn. Pieris Eurj^dice, Leech, Eutom. 1891, Suppl. p. 5. Habitat. 

 W. and C. China. 



Genus PONTIA. 



Poyj^ifl-, Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. fiir. lus. vi. p. 283(1807). Leach, Ediu. Eiicyc. p. 716 (1815). 



Ochseulieimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 30 (1816). Samouello, Ent. U. Comp. p. 236 (1819). 



Jermjn, Butt. Coll. Vade Mec. pp. 44, 66 (1824). 

 Ponlla, Curtis, Brit. Eut. pi. 48 (1824). Scadder, Proc. Amer. Acad. A. and Sc. 1875, p. 255; id. 



Butt. U. S. ii. p. 156 (1889). Kirby, Allen's Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 151 (1896). Grote, Proc. 



Amer. Phil. Soc. 1900, p. 38. 

 Pieris (pt.), Latroille, Gen. Cr. et In?, xiv. p. Ill (1.S05) ; id. I.e. iv. p. 203 (1809). Doubleday and 



Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 42 (1847). Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 9 (1863). Tutt. Brit. Butt. 



p. 229 (1896). 

 Ganoris (pt.), Dalmann, Yet. Acad. Handl. 1816, pp. 61, 86. 

 Syncldoe (pt.), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 94 (1816). 



Mancii>ium (pt.), Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 22 (1827). Eennie, Consp. p. 4 (1832). 

 Mancipiuvi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 5 (1850). 

 Sij7icJdoe, Sohatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 61 (1886). 



Imago. — Forewing triangular ; apex obtuse, rounded, exterior margin oblique, 

 posterior mai-gin short ; subcostal vein three branched, first and second branches 

 free, upper radial from below the third subcostal branch at nearly half beyond the 

 cell ; upper discocelliilar veinlet short and outwardly-oblique, lower concave, lower 

 radial from their angle ; cell long, broad ; middle and lower median veinlets widest 

 apart. Hindwing short; anterior margin arched, apex and exterior margin convex; 

 cell broad apically; upper discocellular short and oblique, lower concave; upper 

 subcostal short. Tliura.v, head and front finely hairy ; palpi very small, hairy 

 beneath to the tip, terminal joint slightly shorter than second; abdomen smoothly 



