154 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Imago. — Forewing more elongated tlian in Pieris Crafeegi, exterior margin more 

 convex ; first and second subcostal branches both emitted further from before the 

 end of the cell, and the fourth branch much further from the apex below the third ; 

 cell broader. Hindwinfi more elongated apically ; cell broader and less pointed at 

 the end ; lower discocellular less oblique. Palpi stouter, more densely hairy beneath; 

 autennge longer ; abdomen compactly scaled. 



Type. — M. Agathon. 



Habits of Larva. — According to the observations of Mr. P. W. Mackinnon, 

 made in Masuri, the " larviB of M. Gaphusa are gregarious, spinning a joint feeble 

 web, under which they lie in communities of ten or more. The pupa is also 

 gregarious." 



Mimicry. — M. Gnpliusa, Ariaca, and Agathon are fair mimics of the common 

 Limnaine butterfly Paralitica melanoides. 



METAPORIA PHRYXE (Plate 525, fig. 1, la, cJ, lb, ? ). 



Peris Phryxe, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 446 (1S.3G). Blancliard, Jacquemont's Voy. Inde iv., 



Ins. p. 16, pi. 2. fig. 1 (1844). 

 Metaporia Phrysce, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1878, p. Gl. Moore, P. Z. S., 1882, p. 25G. 

 Aporia PJinjxe, Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soe. 1898, p. 589. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside pale yellowish-white, veins black lined ; cilia greyish- 

 black. Forewing with a black slender costal edge, a broad discocellular patch at end 

 of the cell, the black also bordering the outer veins and expanding in their middle, 

 thence dilating at their marginal end. Hindwing with black-bordered veins, the black 

 of the outer veins being medially expanded and then marginally dilated as on the 

 forewing. Underside. Forewing white. Hindwing pale yellowish-white, with the 

 base of costa chrome-yellow. Both wings with black vein-markings as on the upper- 

 side. Body above black ; thorax and head clothed with intermixed fine silky black 

 and o-reyish hairs ; legs black, femora and tibia3 white streaked ; antenna3 black. 



Female. Upperside duller yellowish-white. Both wings with similar, but 

 duller black and somewhat bi'oader vein-markings than in the male. Underside with 

 similar duller black markings as on the upperside, the ground-colour of tlie hind- 

 wings being also duller yellow tinted than in the male. 



Expanse, c? 3 to 3^, ? 3^ to 3|- inches. 



Habitat. — W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records this as " somewhat rare in Masuri, 

 much more so than Gajjhusa, but occurs at the same time — May and June" 

 (J. Bombay N. H. Soe. 1898, 589). We possess both sexes from Simla, and a female 

 from Kunawur, taken by Capt. A. M. L;mg. In the British Museum collection are 



