24 LEPIDOPTEFA INDICA. 



compressed and densely hairy beneath ; antennte rather short, stoat, with a gradually 

 thickened elongated blunt club. 



Larva.— Adult. Cylindrical, slightly tapering at each end, dorsally rounded, 

 vertically somewhat flattened, tlie lateral ridge rather sharply edged ; the head and 

 dorsal area finely set with minute black dots, each emitting a short pale bristle. 

 Colour dull glaucous-green, with a sublateral greyish-white stripe; spiracles in- 

 conspicuous ; ventral surface paler green. Feeds on Bhamnus cathartic us and 

 frangtihis. 



Pdpa. — Pointed at each end ; thorax dorsally humped anteriorly and the 

 abdomen slightly keeled to the tip, shoulders angulated ; a lateral ridge thence to the 

 tip; wing-cases produced in front to a curved narrow ridge enclosing the tongue- 

 case, projecting beyond the ventral line of the abdomen, the latter curving gently to 

 the tip. Colour pale gTeen ; lateral ridge yellowish, frontal point and the shoulder 

 purplish-brown. 



Egg. — Flask-shaped, cylindrical, set on end ; with twelve longitudinal ribs and 

 parallel intermediate fine lines ; deposited singly on the rib of upper or underside of 

 the leaf. 



Beoods. — Stephens {I.e. p. 9) says Bhamni " is apparently double-brooded, the 

 first brood appearing about June, and the second in the autumn, and of the latter 

 many of both sexes remain throughout the winter, and make their appearance on the 

 first sunny day in spring." 



Tvpn.— C. Rhamni. 



COLIAS NEPALENSIS. 



Plate 559, fig. 2, 2a, b, c, d S, 2e, f, g ? • 



llhoducera Rhamni, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschniir, iv. p. 410 (18-t-4). 



Ehodocera Rhamni (var.), Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepal, p. 9, pi. o. lig. 1, S (18-15). Doherty, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 136. 

 Gonopter'jx Nepalensis, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 71 (1S47). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. L 



Com, any, i. p. 59 (1857) ; id. Proe. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 493. Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 18(iS, p. 33. 



IJutlcr, Ann. Nat. Hist. 18S5,p. 407 ; id. I.e. 1888, p. 199. de Nie(5ville, Kept. Pamir Boundy. 



Coram, p. 43 (1898); id. Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1S9S, p. 589. Dixey, Proe. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



1905, p. 37. 

 G'o»eptPi->j.v Camipennis, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 407. 



Male. Upperside sulphur-yellow, deeper than in Bhamni. Foreiriuij with some 

 black scales at the base, and a small ferruginous-red spot on the angle of lower 

 discocellular veinlet ; a slender, mostly continuous, dusky, ferruginous line extending 

 along the extreme costal edge from the costal vein to the apex and outer marginal 

 edge and its cilia, to the middle median veinlet ; each vein tip being indicated by a 



