180 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



ic at Meteleo in August, Coba,a:a, and at Bharao in November. Dr. N. Manders 

 found it " not uncommon in the Shan States, occurring also in Eastern Karenee " 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 533). 



Of our illusti'ations on Plate 532, fig. 2, 2a, 2b, c, are from a Nepal male and 

 female. On Plate 533, fig. 1, la, 1, b, c, are from a Burmese male and female. 



PICCARDA ETHIRE. 



Delias Etliire, Dolierty, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 268, ^ ? . Taylor, Butt, of Orissa, p. 15 

 (1888). Butler, Aun. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 144. 



Imago. — " Male and female. The male closely resembles Belius TLierte, var. 

 Tndica. It is a whiter insect, the apex being but slightly clouded with grey, the 

 subapical band distinctly marked, being grey, with the spaces beyond it partly of 

 almost pure white. The cell of the forewing is white above and hardly touched with 

 grey below. The upper two or three apical pale spaces tinged with yellowish. 

 Hindwing immaculate except for the grey terminations of two or three of the veins. 

 The scarlet spots of the hindwing below are transmitted through the wing as a pink 

 band. Below, the disc, base and abdominal margin of the hindwing are bright 

 lemon-yellow, becoming whitish outwardly on the disc, the scarlet submarginal band 

 is rather narrow and even. Female. Like the male, and has little resemblance to 

 the female of Hierte ; it is white, all the veins accentuated with black, the extreme 

 apex and the subapical baud of the forewing dark grey, leaving a whitish band 

 tinged with ochreous across the apex. Below, the female is like the male, the apex 

 of the forewing is more distinctly marked with lemon-yellow, and the veins and 

 subapical band are darker, the cell marked with perceptible grey lines. The brilliant 

 lemon and scarlet h^ies of the hindwing are transmitted through the wing, appearing 

 above as creamy and pink. The two lower discocellulars of the forewing are less 

 oblique and more angled outwardly than in Eierte, resembling those of Eacharls. A 

 local form of Hierte." 



" Expanse, 98 millimetres." 



HA13ITAT. — Madras ; Orissa ; Lower Bengal. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — " Common in the Vizagapatam District, Madras Presidency, at 

 Bobbili, Parvatipuram, the Potingi GrhsU, etc., and in the Jaipur State, probably 

 extending to the Godavari ; scarce in the Granjam District, Mahendragiri ; also seen 

 in Southern Orissa, where it is probably rare " (Doherty, I.e. 263). A male and 

 female from Berhampur, Madras, are in the British Museum. A male, from the 

 Sunderbunds, Lower Bengal, is in Col. C. Swinhoe's Collection. " Very common at 

 Khorda, in Orissa " (W. C. Taylor, I.e.) 



