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DrsTRrBDTiON. — " This is a foresb bufterfly, and is found in the N". Kanara 

 District, wherever there is heavy forest, at all seasons. In its rainy-season dress it 

 is a very richly-coloured butterfly, the female being more black than white on the 

 upperside, and on the underside rich greenish-yellow mingled with smoky-bi'own. 

 The larva and pupa are scarcely distinguishable from those of -FI. Phri/ne, and feed on 

 the same plants " (Davidson and Aitken, J, Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 575). In the 

 Nilgiris it is "common on the western slopes, bub a rare straggler throughout the 

 rest of the district" (Hampson, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 18t8, 363). 



HUPHINA CINGALA. 



Plate 546, fig. 3, 3a (j', 3b ?. 



&q)hina Semba, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 137, pi. 53, fig. 2, 2a J" (1881). de Niceville, Jourr-. 

 Aa. Soc. Beng. 1899, p. 220. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to Remba. Foreiving with the costal black- 

 scaled edge extremely slender, the outer marginal black band narrower than in 

 B,emha, its inner anterior edge being at some distance from the discocellulars and the 

 posterior end much attenuated. Hindwing with the marginal black band very narrow, 

 in some being almost macular in its course ; the grey posterior edging being also 

 much narrower and less apparent. Underside similar to Remba. Forewing with 

 the costal border and outer band narrower, as on the upperside. Hindiviiig with the 

 markings more obscurely defined and tlie coloration much duller. 



Female. Upperside similar to palest examples of Remba. Forewing with the 

 outer band narrower and not extending to the discocellulars. Hindiving with the 

 grey basal area extending to the costa, its outer edge prolonged between the lower 

 subcostal and radial, the outer marginal ai'ea not speckled with submarginal clusters 

 of grey scales. Underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, c? 2^q to 2fij, ? 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon . 



Distribution. — Mr. F. M. Mackwood records it as " rare in the Hills, from 

 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation" (Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 137). "An uncommon insect in 

 Ceylon, and of speedy flight, consequently difficult to catch. It is found in the hill 

 country between 2,000 and 4,000 feet, and is common at Pundaloya " (de Niceville, 

 J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 220). 



Indo China and Malayan Species. — Bnphina Nerissa (Pap. Nerissa Fabricius, 

 Syst. Ent. p. 471, S (1775). Pieris Nerissa, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 202 (1869). Syn. Pap. Amasene, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 44, fig. A, c? (1776). 

 Habitat. South China ; Hainan. 



Huphina Andersoni. (Appias Andersoni, Distant, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 146 ; 



F f 2 



