PTERINS. 3 



slender. Antennse with a rather short flattened dub. Anal valves with a basal 

 lateral-tuft of hairs beneath ; intromittent organ usually exserted. 

 Type.— C. Paulina. 



CATOPHAGA WABDII. 



Plate 552. 



Catophaga Wardii, Moore, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Benga', 1881, p. 43, S ?• Hiimpson, Journ. As. Soo. 



Bong. 1888, p. 362. Watson, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 499. Butler, Ann. Nat. 



Hist. 1898, p. 398. Fnihstorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 288. 

 Appias {Catopliaga) Wardii, Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 574. 

 Appias Wardii, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1900, p. 256. 



Wd-season Brood (Plate 552, tig. 1, la S< lb, c ? ). 



Male. Upperside greyish-white. Foreunng with a broad black apical marginal 

 band extending outwardly from middle of the costa to the submedian at the 

 posterior angle, the inner edge of the band is excavated angularly outward beyond the 

 cell beneath the lower subcostal veinlet to the upper median, and is then concave 

 between the middle and lower median, below which the band is imperfect and 

 decreasingly terminates at the submedian ; the band is traversed by a curved subapical 

 row of five white spots ; basal area of the wing broadly grey and sparsely speckled 

 with minute black scales along base of the costa. Hindwing with the outer marginal 

 series of broad more or less confluent dentated black spots decreasing in size and 

 width from the apex, the anal area being slightly speckled with black scales ; basal 

 area pale grey scaled. Underside. Foreiving greyish-white ; apex pale yellow, with 

 a black narrow subapical band extending from middle of the costa to posterior angle 

 as on upperside. Hindwing uniformly pale yellow throughout. 



Female, Upperside greyish-white. Foreioing with a broader but similar 

 excavated black outer band than in male, the posterior end being entirely black to 

 the submedian vein, the band with three upper subapical white spots, the two lower 

 minute or absent ; basal area also darker grey and blackish scaled. Hindwing with 

 a broader continuous black outer marginal band, its inner-edge acutely dentated, and 

 inwardly broadly bordered from the lower subcostal veinlet to abdominal margin 

 ■with greyish-black scales. Underside. Foreioing with the discal area white, the 

 base pale yellow-tinged, the apex glossy greyish-white, the curved black band 

 broader and more prominent than in the male. Hindwing glossy greyish-white, the 

 outer border darkest, the costal edge tinged with pale yellow. 



Expanse, S 2-^^ to 3, ? 2^^y to 2 -^^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Plate 552, fig. Id, e, f, g S, \ i ?)• 

 Male. Upperside of a whiter tint than the ivet form. Fuvewing witli the black 



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