176 LEPIDOPTKRA INDICA. 



Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, p. 358; id. 1896, p. 569. Ferguson, Joura. 



Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 445. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 189-1, p. 166. Kivby, Allen's Nat. 



Libr. Butt. ii. p. 167, pi. 56, %. ], 2 (1896). Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. IW. Mackinnon, 



Jouru. Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 586. 

 Picearda Eucharis, Grote, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1900, p. 32. 

 Pieris Epicharis, G-odart, Encyl. Mcth. ix. p. 153 (1819). Boisduval, Spec. Gun. Lt'p. i. p. 456 



(1836). 

 Papilio Huparetc, Herbst, Nat. Schmett. v. pi. 101, tigs. 3, 1, 5, $ ? (1792). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside creamy-wliite. Forewlng -with all the veins black 

 lined ; crossed by an oufcer-discal black narrow band, the black expanding on each 

 vein and then dilating ontwardly— thus forming a marginal band enclosing a 

 submarginal series of white outwardly-pointed conical spots. Hinditnng with a 

 similar but less defined black outer-discal slender band and marginal dilated end to 

 the veins, enclosing a row of pale pink broad cordate spots. Underside. Forewinrj 

 similar to the upperside, except that the veins are broader black bordered. Hiiulwing 

 with all the veins black bordered ; the outer-discal black narrow band and marginal 

 end of the veins prominent, euclosing a series of Ijright scai^et cordate spots edged 

 with white ; the inner area from base to discal band pale lemon-yellow, or sometimes 

 ochreous-yellow, except anteriorly, where it is white. 



Female. Upperside creamy-white. Both wings with all the veins broader black 

 bordered than in the male; on the hindwing the discal and marginal baud is also 

 broader, and the pink cordate spots more defiued. Underside similar to the 

 male. 



Expanse, c? ? 2|- to 3^ inches. 



Labva. — Subcylindrical ; head small ; body sparsely clothed with fine long 

 hairs ; colour ochreous-brown, minutely white spotted ; head and legs black. 



Pupa. — Thick anteriorly ; with a frontal short spine and dorsal row of short 

 black spines; colour yellow, spotted with black. 



Habitat. — Lower Himalayas ; Continental India ; Ceylon. 



Labva ; Habits, etc. — " The larva m.ay be found in the Kanara District of 

 Bombay, from the beginning of August, everywhere, on the common ' Mistletoe ' 

 {Loranthus longifiorus), from which it will drop and hang by a thread if the tree is 

 shaken; we have never found it feeding on anything else. The larva is long, 

 cylindrical and smooth, with an oily gloss ; two subdorsal rows of long white bristles 

 springing from minute white tubercles ; head, sides and back sparsely clothed with 

 short white bristles ; colour brown, head and feet black, Unlike most butterflies, 

 this species lays as many as 20 or 30 eggs on the underside of one leaf, in parallel 

 rows, with equal intervals, and the larvte continue in some measure gregarious to the 

 last, so that a large number of pupa3 are often found, at little distance from each 

 other, on a wall, or the trunk of a tree. The pupa is closely attached by the tail and 



