162 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



lu the Britisti Museum Collection are specimens from Durbunga and Mauablioom, 

 Bengal, and in Mr. J. H. Leech's Collection from Sultanpnr, Kulu, taken by Capt. Gr. 

 Young, from Narkuuda, and Kujiar, 6,000 feet, N.W. Himalaya, taken in April by 

 Capt. McArtliur. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 527, fig. 1, larva and pupa, are from Mr. A. G-rote's 

 original drawing made in Calcutta; fig. 1, a, b, c, (?, Id, 9 , o? dry-season iorm, and 

 fig. le, (?, f, g, li, ?, oi ivet-season form. 



ANAPH^IS TAPROBANA (Plate 527, fig. 2, 2a, (J, 2b, c, ? ). 



Pieris Taprohai\a, Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 565. 



Belenois Taprohana, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 137, pi. 53, fig. 3, 3a, b, (? ? (1881). 



Belenois Mesentina, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 216. 



Belenois Mesentina snhsp. fervidior, Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 326. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with a broader black outer 

 marginal band than in Continental Indian examples of A. Mesentina ; this band 

 extends to the posterior angle, the three, or four, snbapical enclosed white spots are 

 very small and slender. Hindwing with a broad black marginal band traversed by 

 very small slender white spots ; the black costal spot and lunule beneath being 

 prominent. Underside. Forewing with the base ochreous tinted, the broad 

 marginal band, as above, the subapical spots small and ochreous tinted. Hindwing 

 with the vein-borders and outer band dark vinous-brown, their interspaces and the 

 small marginal spots being bright ochreous. 



Female. Upperside of both wings basally suffused with pale ochreous, the 

 marginal black bands somewhat broader, and without any traversing white spots. 

 Underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, 2 to 2|- inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Mr. F. M. Mackwood records it as inhabiting the low counti-y, 

 appearing, apparently, in certain years only, as, for two or three years together, 

 scarcely one is to be seen, and then in the next year they appear in great numbers. 

 Capt. Hutchison obtained it in gardens and open cultivated ground about Colombo, 

 from October to end of the year. Its flight is slow, settling on the ground. It is 

 very uncertain in its apj)earance ; onl}'^ observed during two out of five years' 

 collection. Capt. Wade found it in Colombo, Hambantotte, and Galle (Lep. 

 Ceylon, i. 137). Dr. N. Mandei'S states that " it is uncertain in its appearance, but 

 is abundant in the low country when it does occur, and then joins in the migratory 

 flights, in June and July, and again in November and December " (Juuru. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1899, 21 G). 



