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Underside. Forewing greyisli-wbite ; -with the outer black band subapically 

 restricted and narrow, the apical area being pale yellow, the spots of upperside being 

 slightly indicated, the black discocellular dot also visible. Hindwing pale yellow, 

 with more or less very slightly-defined brownish-scaled discal and submarginal 

 zijjzaof fasciae, and a distinct black discocellular dot. 



Female. Upperside fuliginous-black. Forewing Avith a central longitudinal 

 greyish-white patch, its outer edge being sinuous and its basal area dark grey scaled; 

 two small oblique subapical white spots; cilia white posteriorly. Hindwing with 

 the basal and discal area greyish fuliginous-brown and the veins greyish-white lined, 

 the cell and abdominal area with long fine grey hairs ; two upper submarginal small 

 greyish-white spots ; cilia white. Underside. Foretving with similar black outer 

 border, shaped as on upperside, the apex being ochreous-yellow, and the white spots 

 less defined ; discal area greyish-white, the base suffused with sulphur-yellow. 

 Hindwing ochreous-yellow, very sparsely irrorated with minute brown scales, 

 irregularly traversed by a discal and submarginal zigzag brown-scaled fascite, and 

 outer marginal white interspaces ; a brown discocellular dot. 



Expanse, <S 2^ to 3, ? 2|- to 3 inches. 



Ih'y-season Brood (Plate 549, fig. le, f, g, h (J, Id ? ). 



Appias Mahaiia, Moore, Ann. Nut. Hist, 1877, p. 48, ^ . AJainson, List of Burm. Butt. 1897, p. 43. 

 IlijJOScritia Mahana, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist, 1885, p. 341, rj. 



Hiposcritia imheciUs, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 4G, ^J. do Nifcville, ib. 1885, p. 51. 

 Tachjris indigis, Weymer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 11, pi. 1, fig. 3, (^ . 



Male. Somewhat smaller than wet-season form. Upperside. Similar. Foretving 

 with narrower and less prominent black outer band, which ends usually above the lower 

 median veinlet, and its enclosed white spots generally lai'ger, there being usually five 

 in number. Hindwing unmarked. Underside. Foreicing with the outer black band 

 narrower than in wet form and obsolescent posteriorly, or entirely absent, its position 

 indicated only by a few dark scales, the apex being pale yellowish-white speckled 

 with brownish scales, Hindwing pale yellowish-white, more or less speckled with 

 minute brown scales and traversed by a discal and submarginal zigzag fascia, but in 

 some specimens these brown scales and fasciee are almost obsolete ; the discocellular 

 black dot always present. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with broader greyish-white area and less black- 

 scaled posterior border than in ivet form. Hindwing with the basal and discal area 

 greyish-white, the outer black border enclosing a submarginal row of large whitish 

 irregular-shaped spots. Underside similar to ivet form, Forewing with the black 

 outer band somewhat narrower and with a white spot at the posterior angle. Hind- 

 wing more numerously brown scaled. 



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