1G4 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



Delias Sanaca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S82, p. 256. de Niceville, Tran?. Enh See. 1889, p. 343. 



Elwes, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 159. Mitis, Iris, vi. p. 133 (1893). 

 Delias fiavalha, Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 759. 

 Delias Belladonna (pt.), Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, 



p. 685. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyisli-wliite. Forewing witli the costa, disco- 

 cellulars, median branches, and outer margin slightly bordered with blackish scales, 

 or all the veins and veinlets from their base ; the discocellulars and the outer 

 margin more broadly black bordered (varying to still greater width in certain 

 specimens, and in which the ground-colour should be termed greyish-black and the 

 markings white), thus leaving a whitish broad cell area, a discal transverse series of 

 narrow elongated streaks and an outer marginal row of small lanceolate marks, the 

 two latter series being more or less perceptibly coalescent. Hindwing with the 

 subcostals and median slenderly black lined, and their outer marginal ends more 

 broadly dilated with black scales ; and a slightly-defined similar scaled subapical 

 streak, or, the subcostals, the median and its branches basally, are broadly black 

 scaled, thus broadly enclosing the white central area of the cell ; beyond is a more 

 or less slightly-defined submargiual blackish-scaled diffiased narrow lunular line 

 extending from near the apex to lower median, and a slender marginal line, thus 

 enclosing a more or less apparent row of extreme-marginal whitish broad conical 

 spots ; these spots are quite differently placed, on both the upper and underside, to 

 those in D. Hor-ifieldii and BeUadoniia, — in these two latter species their position 

 is submarginal, the entire series being disposed inwardly and at some distance away 

 from the extreme outer margin ; base of costa chrome-yellow, and anal area broadly 

 diffused with paler yellow. Underside greyish-white. Both wings with similarly 

 disposed blackish markings, those on the hindwing being vinaceous-black. Hind- 

 wing with the cell area, costal, discal, and marginal white interspaces, each centrally 

 clouded with yellow. Body above blackish scaled; abdomen beneath greyish- white ; 

 thorax beneath, palpi, antennte, and legs black ; femora and tibiaj slenderh* white 

 streaked. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings with broader and more prominently black 

 markings than in the darkest male, the white interspaces being thus more restricted 

 and sharply defined, the yellow of the anal area on the hindwing is also paler and 

 more diffused. Underside similar to the male, the dark portions of the hindwing 

 more vinaceous-black. 



Expanse, <? ? 3| to 3f inches. 



Habitat. — W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Capt. A. M. Lang records this butterfly as " very rare. 

 Obtained only in one richly-wooded glen near Dharin, far in the interior of the 



