168 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Metajooria Acrsea (Pieris Acreea, Oberthiir, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 226. id. Etud. 

 Ent. xi. p]. 2, fig. 7). Leech, I.e. ii. p. 453. Euhitat. W. Chioa. 



Genus ANAPH^IS. 



Anaphieis, Hiibner, Veiz. bck. Schmett. p. 93 (1816). 

 - Pinacopteryx (Sect. 1), Wallengren, Khop. Caffr. p. 7 (K. Svenka Vet. Akad. Haudl. 1857) id. 1858. 

 p. 75. 

 Belenols, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 137 (1881). — Nee Hiibner. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing triangular ; costal edge smooth (not serrated as in 

 type of Belenols) exterior margin slightly uneven ; costal vein extending to two- 

 thirds the margin ; subcostal vein four branched, first subcostal branch emitted at 

 about one-fourth before end of the cell and partly anastomosed to the costal vein at 

 some distance before its end, second branch at one-eighth before end of the cell, 

 third bifid, the upper discocellular being emitted at one-third beyond the cell; 

 discocellulars obhque, upper shortest and slightly incurved, lower radial from their 

 angle ; middle median at two-fifths, and lower at one-fifth before end of the cell ; 

 submedian vein slightly recurved. Tlimhvhuj broadly oval ; exterior margin slightly 

 scalloped ; precostal vein short, curved, emitted at some distance beyond base of 

 costal vein ; first subcostal branch at more than half before upper end of the cell ; 

 upper discocellular very oblique, shortest, lower less oblique; cell fusiform; middle 

 median at one-fifth and lower at nearly one-half before end of the cell ; submedian 

 long, straight ; internal vein slightly recurved. Body moderate ; thorax clothed 

 with fine silky hairs; abdomen compactly scaled; palpi long, very laxly hairy 

 beneath, second joint extending beyond the eyes, third joint long and slender; 

 antennae with a lengthened spatulate club. 



Type. — A. Creona. 



ANAPH.S:iS MESENTINA (Plate 527, fig. 1, larva and tnq>a; In, b, c, cJ, Id, ? ; lo, J, If, g, h, ? ). 



Fapilio Mesenfina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 270, fig. A, B (1782). 



Pieris Mesimtina, Godart, Encyc. Mcth. ix. p. 130 (1819). Boi.'duval, Spec. Geu. Lep. i. p. 501 (1836). 



Kollar, in Hiigel's Kasehmir, iv. 2, p. 409 (1841). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. I.ep. i. 



p. 46 (1847). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 72, pi. 12, fig. 9, 9a, larva and picpa 



(1857). Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 102; Chaumette, id. I.e. 1865, p. 37. Moore, P. Z.-S. 



1865, p. 489. id 1882, p. 255. Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 204 (1869). Bieuert, 



Lep. Ergeb. Keise Persien, p. 26 (1869-70). Swinlioe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 511 ; id. Tr. Ent. Soc. 



1885, p. 343. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 417. 

 Pvntia Meseniina, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 142 (1829). 

 Bch'iioix Meseniina, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1880, p. 223; id. 1882, p. J ; /-/. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, 



p. 409, pi. 39, fig. 6, jjwjja. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 



