G Li:PIDOPTEnA INDICA. 



Eauge, Upper Tenasserira, hj Col. C. T. Biugliam, and from Muoiig Gnow, Shan 

 States, are in Mr. W. Rothschild's Colkction. A male of the dry form, taken in 

 Rangoon, is in Col. C. Swinhoe's Collection ; a female of tlie drij form (above 

 described) was taken in Arrakan in November by Col. 0. H. E. Adamson. A male 

 of the extreme-dry season form, taken at Hlaingbeoo, Arrakan, in February, is in 

 Col. C. H. E. Adamson's Collection, and a female from Muong Gnow, Shan States, 

 is in Mr. W. Hothschild's Collection. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 551, fig. 2, 2a is from the wet season male, fig. 2b, 

 c, from the wet season female, both taken in April by Mr. Hauxwell ; fig. 2d, e, is 

 from the extreme dry form taken in February by Col. Adamson. 



CATOPHAGA GALATHEA. 



Pluto 553. 



Pieris Oalathea, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xii. p. 485, ^ (1862) ; id. Reiso Novara Lep. ii. p. 165 



(1865). 

 Tachyns Galalhea, Wallace, Traus. Eut. Soc. 1867, p. 371. 

 Appias Galathfia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 591. 

 Tachyris Paulina, Vcir. Galatliea, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, ]S81, p. 237 ; 



id I.e. 1883, p. 18. 

 Gcdopliaga Roepstorfii, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 44, ^. Watson, Journ. P.-imba}' Nat. 



Hist. Soc 1894, p. 499. 



Wet season Brood (Plate 553, fig. 1, la ^ , lb, c ? ). 



Male. Upperside grejnsh-white. Forewing with the costal base and basal area 

 sparsely dark grey scaled, the costal edge from about its middle and the outer marginal 

 edge to below the middle median veinlet black lined, the apical border with a more or 

 less defined denticulated black-scaled decreasing band (in some specimens wider than 

 in our figure 1), and also a few black scales forming a small patch near the base of 

 lower subcostal veinlet ; between the upper and middle median is a more or less defiued 

 cluster of black scales. Eiiuhving unmarked. Underside. Forewing with tlie outer 

 discal area greyish- white ; the base, costa, and apes tinged with very pale sulphur- 

 yellow ; the lower cluster of black scales present as on the upper side. Ilindiriiig 

 tinged with very pale oohreous-yellow. 



Female. Upperside greyish-white. Foremng with the costal base and basal 

 ai'ea darker greyish-black scaled, a broad black normal-shaped outer-marginal band 

 extending from middle of costa to posterior angle, and ti'aversed by a series of five white 

 spots, the upper one slender or indistinct, these spots sometimes being very slightly 

 pale yellow-tinted. Hindwing with a black outer-marginalcontinuousdentated band. 

 Underside. Forewing with the discal area greyish-white, basal area pale yellow, a 



