LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



Sub-family PIERIN-ffi (contimied). 

 Gen'Js LADE. 



Laclc, J(3 Niccville, Journ. Bombay liai. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 153. 



Male. Forewhig triangular, costa mncli arched towards the end, npex some- 

 what falcate, exterior margin crenulated anteriorly ; cell broad. Hindwing 

 triangularly-oval, very convex exteriorly. No tufts of hair present at base of the 

 anal clasps ; a lengthened rigid introraittent organ generally exserted. 



LADE LALASSIS. 



Plate 551, fig. 1, la (^ {Wet -season Brood), lb, c cJ {Bry-season Brood). 



Perns ZaZassj's, Grose-Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 265; id. Ehop. Exot. ii. P. pi. 2, 



fig. 1, 2, 3 (? (1889). 

 Hiposcritia Lalassis, Adamson, List Burm. Butt. 1897, p. 44. 

 Hyposcritia Lalassis, Butler, Ann. jSTat. Hist. 1898, p. 395. 

 Lade Lalassis, de Niccville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 153. 

 Pieris Indroides, Honrath, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 403 {woodcut fig.). 

 Hiposcritia Lucasi, VAT. Lalassis, Frulistorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zcit. 1902, p. 284. 



Wet-season form. Male. Upper.side greyish-white. Forewing with the costa 

 narrowly edged with grey-black scales ; a broad black-scaled apical-marginal band 

 decreasing much in width to or near the lower median veinlet, its inner edge being 

 more or less defined, and irregular from below the subcostal ; a small more or less ill- 

 defined black-scaled discal spot between the upper and middle median veinjet, and a 

 smaller blacker spot on middle of the lower discocellular veinlet. Hindiving unmarked . 

 Underside. Forewing with the apical band irrorated with brownish-ochreous scales, 

 the discal and discocellular spot prominently black, the latter larger than on upper- 

 side. Hindiving irrorated with brown scales, and traversed by an ill-defined 

 darker-scaled discal and a sub marginal zigzag fascia. 



Female. Unknown. 



Expanse, c? 3 to 3^ inches. 

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