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in the Plains and up to 6,000 feet, in open ground and forest, being much more 

 common in the Hills than in the Plains. It has a very rapid and long flight." Mr. 

 F. M. Mackwood found it " most abundant in low country and up to 4,000 feet. 

 It is found all the year round. In the up-country flights, this species forms a third 

 or half of the whole number ; on a sunshiny day thousands will pass by in an hour. 

 When the flight is over, they are to be found congregated on damp spots in the open 

 sunshine in great numbers. I have seen quite 100 within the diameter of twelve 

 inches " (Lep. Ceylon, i. 133). Mr. T. A. Mann (referring to this species as Galene) 

 wi-ites : " I observed this butterfly migrating in thousands across the northern part of 

 the Island dui'ing Mai-ch and April, 1859, in a direction from N.B. to S.W. The 

 movement commenced about 7 a.m., and lasted until noon, when it decreased, and 

 was renewed in the afternoon for another two hours " (Proc. Linn. Soc. London, 

 June, 1895). 



CATOPHAGA GALENE. 



Plate 555. 



Pieiis Qalene, FelJer, Eeise Novara Lep. ii. p. 165, cT (1865). 



Taehyria Paulina {\i\,.), Wallacp, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1867, p. 369. 



Catojjhaga Neombo, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 131, pi. 50, fig. 3, a, b ? {nee fig. 3).* 



Catophaga Vemista, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 132, pi. 51, fig. 3 ? (1881). Dry form. 



Calophaga albina (pt.), Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 397. 



Appias albina, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 217, nee Boisd. |- 

 Plate 555, fig. 1, la, b ^, Ic, il, b, i ? . 

 Male. Upperside greyish-white. Foremng with the base of costal border and 

 basal area very slightly grey-scaled, the apical border very slenderly sinuously-edged 

 with dusky-grey scales, or these scales are absent (as in fig. lb). Hindwing un- 

 marked, or the upper veinlets marginally ended with a few dusky grey scales. 

 Underside. Forewing with the apical area, and the entire hindwing, washed with 

 very pale ochreous-yellow. 



Female. Trimorpliic . Form I. («'ei seasoi, fig. Ic, d, h, i.) Upperside with the 

 ground-colour of both wings yellow, that of the forewing being of a more or less 

 pale lemon-yellow tint, and the hindwing of an ochraceous tint. Forewing with the 

 basal area and base of costa broadly dusky-grey scaled ; a broad black outer band 

 extending from middle of the costa and decreasing hindward to the posterior angle, 

 its inner upper edge being outwardly-oblique and angled beyond the upper end of 

 the cell and again at upper median veinlet, below which it is excavated to the 



* This fig. 3 was taken from a South Indian specimen in our Collection, which we then mistook to be the 

 male of this specie.^', but have now proved it to be the extreme-dry form of C. Wardii, and as such we have 

 described it and rtflgured it on our P.ate 552 (fig. If, g). 



t The true (dbin.i of Boisduval (Spec. Gen.^p. 480) is an allied species from Amboina. 

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