178 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



In Ceylon, Dr. Thwaites found the larva feeding on Loranthus. Mr. F. M. Mack- 

 wood records it as being common throughout the low country, and up to 4,000 feet 

 altitude ; at times a few occur higher up. The larvae feed on the parasitic Lovantlms, 

 sometimes in thousands, but fortunately Ichneumons destroy the greater number" 

 (Lep. Ceylon, i. 140, 1881). In Madras Capt. B. Y. Watson "took it in July and 

 August " (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1890, 268). Mr. W, C. Taylor records it " very common 

 at Khorda, Orissa " (List, p. 15, 1888). Mr. L. de Niceville states that it " swarms 

 in the neighbourhood of Calcutta in the winter; specimens are to be met with 

 throughout the year " (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, 51). Mr. J. Rothney says " it is the 

 commonest butterfly in Barrackpur Park, near Calcutta ; it occurs in numbers from 

 April to October" (Ent. M. Mag. 1882, 35). 



In Sikkim, writes Mr. H. J. Blwes, " it occurs at low elevations from April to 

 October " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 407). 



We possess specimens from Kasauli, W. Himalaya ; Nepal, taken by Genl. Gr. 

 Ramsay; Bombay, Nilgiris, and Ceylon; also a male, labelled " Burmah," but 

 which locality is doubtless incorrect. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 534, fig. 1 larva and fmpa, is copied from Mr. A. 

 Grote's Calcutta drawing ; la, b, a W. Himalayan male, and Ic, d, a Nepal female. 



PICCARDA HIERTE (Plate 532, fig. 2, 2a, <;?, 2b, c, ? ; Plate 533, fig. 1, la, S, lb, c, ? ). 



Poniia Ilierte, Hiibner, Zutriige Exot. Schmett. i. p. 17, fig. 77, 78, (J (1818) ; uLYerz. bek. Sobniett. 



p. 92 (1818). 

 Pieris Hierte, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 758. 

 Delias Hierte, Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 108. Watson, Journ. Bombay N. II. Soc. 1888, p. 25; id. 



I.e. 1891, p. 51; id. 1897, 668. Manders, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 533. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. Lend. 1893, p. 311. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1891, p. 166. Adamson, List Burm. Butt. 



p. 41 (1897). Batler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 144. Frahstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 270. 

 TInjca Hierte, var. Indica, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1867, p. 351, J ? . Elwes, id. I.e. 1888, 



p. 408. 

 Delias Indica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 839. 

 Thyca Devaea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 566, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the veins either only 

 slenderly greyish-black lined and the black scales obscurely expanding on each side 

 of the veins obliquely before tbe apex, and then dilating at their end from the sub- 

 costal to lower median, thus enclosing an apical series of ill-defined whitish streaks, 

 or the veins are also broadly black bordei-ed, with their subapical expansion and 

 dilated end also broader and more prominently black, and the cell streaks of the 

 underside slightly visible. Hindwing with the veins greyish-white, the submarginal 

 scarlet spots and dark marginal band of the underside being faintly indicated ; in 



