us LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



cell, second immediatelj before the end, and third from end of cell, third with a 

 short fork near its end, the upper radial being emitted from the subcostal at fully 

 two-thirds beyond the cell ; the cell broad, longest in the male ; discocellulars 

 oblique, very slightly concave, upper short, the lower radial from their angle ; middle 

 and lower median much the widest apart ; submedian vein well recurved. 

 Hindwing broadly oval, somewhat prolonged apicall}', and very slightly obtusely- 

 angular at end of lower subcostal branch in the male, the angulation being more 

 apparent in the female ; cell long, broad across the middle and truncate at its end ; 

 discocellulars very oblique ; first subcostal branch short ; submedians long. Thorax 

 densely clothed with fine hairs ; abdomen of male above compactly scaled laterally, 

 with a dorsal ridge of short fine hairs, and a similar series beneath ; paljji short, 

 hairy beneath, terminal joint slender, as long as the second ; antenna3 with a 

 lengthened fusiform compressed club. 



Laeva. — Stout, cylindrical, clothed with short fine hairs. When young living 

 gregariously under a common silken web. Feeds on Hawthorn, Sloe, and various 

 Fruit trees. 



Pupa. — Rather stout; head obtusely pointed in front ; thorax dorsally convex. 



Type.— P. Cratasgi. 



PIERIS SORACTA (Plate 523, fig. 1, larva and pujM ; la, b,c, d, ^, le, f, ? ). 



Aporia Soracla, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 83 (1857). Lang. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 

 p. 102. Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 489; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 256, pi. 11, fig. 5, larva. 

 Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 135. Mackinnon and do Niccville, Journ. Bombay Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 589. 



Pontia Soracia, Butler, Free. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1878, p. 58. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside white ; extreme outer margin and cilia black, edged 

 with grey. Forcwhnj with the costal-edge and the veins slenderly black lined, more 

 distinctly so along their outer end ; a black variable slender or moderately-broad 

 streak at end of the cell, this streak sometimes extending more slenderly at both 

 ends, from the base of first subcostal branch to the lower median bi'anch, its outer 

 edge being also angled at base of each veinlet except the lower median, and 

 sometimes also prominently extending along the upper and middle median to, and 

 coalescing with the transverse band ; a black transverse discal sinuous band from 

 the costa to lower median veinlet, this band is very variable, being either almost 

 obsolete, or slightly, or prominently defined, the outer margin of the wing being 

 narrowly black and inwardly angled at the veins, these two l^ands, in the pro- 

 minently marked specimens, enclosing a series of suljmarginal oval spaces. 

 Hindwing with the veins entirely white and uumai'ked or with the veins black lined 



