120 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Genus EUCHLOE. 



Eucldoe, Hiibner, Verz. b3k. Schmett. p. 94 (1816). "Westwood, British Butterflies, p. 30 (1841). 



Butler, Cistula, Entom. i. p. 39 (1870). Kirby, Cat. Diurnal, Lep. p. 505 (1871). 

 Anihocharis, Boisduval (part), Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 585 (1836). Doubleday, Gen. Diurnal, Lep. p. 55 



(1847). 

 SincMoe, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 179 (1907). 



Imago. Forewing. Costa somewhat arclied, apex obtuse, exterior margin slightlj 

 olilique ; lower angle rounded, inner margin long and nearly straight, more than three- 

 fourths the length of the costa ; cell half as long as the wing, sub-costal nervure five- 

 l)ranched, the first two branches emitted before the end of the cell, the upper radial, 

 thrown off a little beyond the cell, the middle discocellular nervule well marked ; all 

 the veins present. Hindwmg longer than the forewing, costa somewhat arched, 

 especially near the base, exterior margin and lower angle evenly rounded, inner margin 

 nearly straight to near the base, then strongly concave ; cell broad, lower discocellular 

 the longest, middle discocellular short. Antennae short, less than half the length of 

 the forewing, club abrupt, broad and flat, palpi slender, third joint short ; head and 

 palpi very hairy in front. 



Type, Belia, Linn., from Africa. 



EUCHLOE DAPHALIS. 

 Plate 590, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? . 

 Anthocharis Da^halis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1865, p. 491, pi. 31, iig. 14, (J. 

 EucMoe Baphalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 273. 

 Syncldoe Daphalis, Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 676. Bingham, Fauna of 



Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 180 (1907). 

 Eiichloe Venosa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 151, pi. 15, fig. 5. 



Male. White, with the base of both wings irrorated v,jith black scales. Forewing 

 with the costal margin delicately chequered with black, a black band at the apex 

 containing a large white spot and three or four marginal spots, its inner portion sinuous 

 and attenuated hind wards, a transverse black spot at the end of the cell, more or less 

 lunate. Hindwing without markings, but the pattern of the underside distinctly 

 showing through the wing. Underside Forewing creamy-white, costa chequered with 

 black, the diseoidal spot with white centre, the apex chequered with pale greenish- 

 brown, the interspaces being pale silvery white. Hindwing with transverse irregular 

 bands of greenish-brown overlaid with greenish-yellow scales, the inter.spaces shining 

 silvery white. 



Female. Differs from the male chiefly in having a more rounded apex to the 

 forewing. 



Expanse, ^ ? I3, inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



