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• ■ PICCARDA METARETE (Plate 533, fig. 2, 2a, ^J, 2b, c, ? ). 



Deij'as i/e/(«'e<£', Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 550; i<l. Ami. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 145. 



Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lend. Zool. 1886, p. 49. 

 Delias Hyparetc, var. Metarete, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 292, pi. 24, fig. 13, 14, cj ? (1885). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to P. Hierte. Foreiuing with more uniformly 

 grey-scaled apical interspaces. Hindwing witli distinctly-defined black-scaled 

 marginal border. Underside. Foreiving similar to Hierte. Hindwing with tlie 

 yellow colour more basally restricted ; the submarginal scarlet spots inwardly black 

 bordered, the two anal spots also being larger. 



Female. Upperside duller greyish-black than in Hierte. Foreiving with 

 obscurely-defined markings, the discal series comparatively broader. Hindiving with 

 broader black outer border, enclosing the dusky reddish indications of the spots. 

 Underside. Similar to the male. 



Expanse, c? ? , 3 to 3^ inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Penang ; Sumatra; ? Borneo. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens of both sexes from Dr. J. Anderson, taken 

 in " Mergui, in December and January; Elphinstone Island in March, and on King 

 Island in January " (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 49). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 533, fig. 2, 2a, and 2b, c, are from Mergui male and 

 female. 



PICCARDA AGOSTINA (Plate 535, fig. 1, la, J, lb, c, ? ). 



Pieris Agostina, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. i. Pierida, pi. 1, fig. 1, 2, jj (1852). Moore, Cafcal. Lap. Mus. 



E. I. ConipaDy, i. p. 81, <$ (1857). 

 Thyca Arjostina, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 353. 

 Delias Agostina, Elwc=, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 408. Watson, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 



188S, p. 25; id. I.e. 1891, p. 51; id. 1897, p. 668. Manders, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 533. 



de Nicuville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 166. Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 311. Adamson, List 



Burm. Butt. 1897, p. 41. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 159. 

 Pieris Nes'ba, Lucas, Rev. Zool. 1852, p. 324, ? . 



Ima";o. — Male. Upperside. Foreiving greyish-white ; costal margin speckled 

 with greyish-black scales ; an apical-marginal blackish-scaled band enclosing five or 

 six white spots. Hindwing creamy-white with the marginal dark border of the 

 underside slightly apparent. Underside. Foreiving with all the veins broadly black, 

 the apical spotted-band as above. Hindwing rich chrome-yellow ; with a narrow 

 black marginal-band traversed by white lunular spots. Bodg greyish white; legs 

 black, streaked with white ; antennae above black, beneath annulated with white. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving greyish-black ; with indistinct gi'eyish-white 



