20 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Larva OTeeii, with a pale o'laucons tinue about the bases of the leers, and .sliofhtlv hairy- 

 Pupa sometimes green, but oftener of a delicate pink shade " (Davidson and Aitken, 

 J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, 569). 

 Type.— L. Xiphia. 



LEPTOSIA XIPHIA. 



Plate 559, fig. 1 ^, la, b 9. 



rapilio XtjMa, Fabficius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 43 (1781) ; Miint. Ins. p. 20 (1787). 



Pontia JipMa, Butler, Catal. Fabr. D. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 229 (1869). Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. 



p. 439 (1871). Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 3.54; id. 1874, p. 107. Swinhoe, P.Z.S. 1885, 



p. 135 ; id. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, p 309. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888 ; p. 407. 

 lej)tosia Xiphia, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 288, pi. 26, fig. 8 (1885). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1885, p. 4'J ; id. I.e. 1895, p. 486, 1899, p. 210; id. Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 165. 



Hampson, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, p. 361. Watson, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1888, p. 25; id. I.e. 



1891, p. 51; 1895, p. 669; id. J. As. Soc. Beng 1890, p. 267. Semper, Eeis. Phil. Lep. p. 251, 



pi. 42, fig. 1, 2 (1891). Ferguson, J. Bombay, N. H. S. 1891, p. 443. Kirby, Allen's Nat. 



Libr. Butt. ii. p. 176 (1896). Mackinnon and de Nice'ville, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, p. 535. 



Adamson, List Burm. Butt. p. 40 (1897). Fiuhstorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 269. 

 Nycliitona Xiphia, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 41 (1870). Moore, P.Z.S. 1878, p. 837 ; id. Lep. of Ceylon, 



i. p. 118, pi. 46, fig. 6. 6a (1881) ; Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 45. Taylor, List Orissa Butt. 



p. 13 (1888). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, p. 569. 

 Papilio JXina, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii.i. p. 194 (1793). 

 Pontia Nina, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, p. 140 (1829). Bsisduval, Spec. G6n. 



Lep. p. 430 (1836). Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 40 (1847). Moore, Catal. Lep. IMus. E. 1. 



Company, i. p. 69 (1857). Wallace, Tr. Ent. Soc. 18G7, p. 317. Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 



p. 102; Chanmetle, id. I.e. 1865, p. 36; Eothney, id. I.e. 1882, p. 35. Snellen, Mid. Sumatro, 



p. 22 (1880). Siaudinger and Schatz. Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 65 (ISBG). 

 Pieris Nina, Godart, Encyl. Mcth. ix. p. 162 (1819). 

 Lcpfofia cldoro(jmpha, lluhncr, Zutriige, fi^. 47, 48 (1818). 



Male. Upperside pure white. Forewing with the base of costal border marked 

 with slender black outwardly-oblique striae ; a black apical marginal band which is 

 broad anteriorly and angled at the radial veinlet, and from thence to the middle 

 median narrow and macular; in the discal interspace of upper and middle median is a 

 large black outwardly-oblique quadrate spot, which more or less slightly extends over 

 each veinlet, and sometimes a few scales from its lower outer end reach the opposite 

 marginal spot. Hindwing either unmarked, or (probablj^ v:ct brood) with an outer 

 marginal black fine slender broken line. Underside white. Forewing with the costal 

 border and apex more or less faintly tinted with olivescent-yellow and flecked with 

 delicate dusky-grey short strigte, the extreme outer margin being slenderly black 

 scaled between the veins, llindwiny crossed by very slender dusky-grey irregular 

 strigge, those across the upper and lower discal area being more regular and form 



