198 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



APPIAS NICOBARICA. 



Male. Upperside similar to A. Hippoides. Forewing with the inner edge of 

 the marginal dentated black band distinctly grey-scaled. Hinclwing with the marginal 

 black band very narrow and almost even, the submarginal grey bordering broader 

 and more distinctly defined. Underside. Similar to wet-season form of Hippoides. 

 Hindwing clear gamboge-yellow, with the outer marginal band less sinuated on its 

 inner edge. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving with two upper and three lower-discal greyish- 

 white streaks. Hindivivg paler, being more uniformly sullied throughout with very 

 pale greyish-brown scales. Underside similar to dry-season form of Hippoides, the 

 hindwing being greyish-white. 



Expanse, S 'i 2^^ inches. 



Habitat — Nicobars. 



Described from specimens received by Col. C. T. Bingham. 



APPIAS TAPROBANA. 



Wet-season Brood. (Plate 541, fig. 2, 2a, (?, 2 b, c, ? .) 



Appias Taprohana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 143 ; id. Lap. of Ceylon, i. p. 135, pi. 52, 

 fig. 1, la, b, c c? ? , and larva and pupa (1881). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, 

 p. 218. 



Wet-season Brood. Male. Upperside similar to wet-season Hippoides. Fore- 

 wing with the black dentated exterior marginal band comparatively broader, the black 

 scales distinctly extending along the lower subcostals, and thus forming the lower 

 intervening white portion into an insulated spot. Hindwing also with a broader black 

 dentated marginal band and distinctly darker grey-scaled inner border. Underside. 

 Foreiving with cuprescent-brown costal and dentated exterior band, the point on the 

 latter at the upper-median extending slightly along the veinlet to the base of 

 middle median within the cell ; apical spot yellow. Hindwing bright yellow ; the 

 costal and subcostals slenderly hned with brown scales ; exterior band broad, 

 cuprescent-brown, with a sinuous inner edge. 



Female. Upperside dark sepia-brown. Foreicing with two upper and three 

 lower discal longitudinal greyish-white streaks, the middle streak being less defined, 

 a more or less ill-defined streak extending within the cell from its apex. Hindwing 

 with the basal area greyish-white, merging into the broad dark marginal dentated 

 band, the costal vein and subcostals brown lined. Underside similar to same sex 

 of wet-season Hippoides. Forewing with broader white cell and discal streaks. 

 Hindtving yellow ; the veins brown lined, marginal sinuous-edged band broad. 



