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on the hindwing its two parts are very close together ; the npper one is 

 widely united near the costa, with the outer o£ the two oblique basal 

 stripes. The latter are united in both wings, enclosing a narrow white 

 band. The two lines of submarginal spots are less equal and regular than 

 in ethion, the inner being very large and forming an almost continuous 

 and very heavy lunular line. The anal and subanal black spots are edged 

 with silvery blue. Tails shorter than in manluena. Expanse 32 milli- 

 metres. 



Two males, Gonyi, Great Nicobar. 



Family PIERIDJS. 



17. Nychitona xiphia, Fab., var. nicobaeica. 



My numerous specimens from Great and Little ISTicobar all have the 

 black margin of the apex much narrower than in the typical xiphia, and 

 the discal spot greatly reduced, and almost obsolescent. The genus does 

 not seem to occur in any of the northern islands of the group. 



18. Delias kandha, n. sp. 



^ , 2 . A local form of thishe, Cramer. Allied to pyra7nus, Wallace, 

 from Sikkim. In Icandha the ochreous anal area of the hindwing 

 above is replaced by pale cream ; the light discal areas on the hindwing 

 below, which in pyranuis are ochreous anally and whitish apically, 

 are in Icandha of an almost uniform bright yellow hue, inclining to 

 lemon ; the ochre spot at the base of the costa of the hindwing below 

 is much larger and more distinct ; the apical grey streaks of the 

 forewing above are obscurely tinged with ochreous. All the pale 

 marks are larger, and the black areas smaller and better defined. The 

 female hardly differs from the male. Four males and three females 

 taken on the Potingi Pass in the Yizagapatam District, Madras Presi- 

 dency and the adjoining Jaipur State, at from 3,000 to 5,000 feet eleva- 

 tion on the Eastern Ghats. Expanse 98 millimetres. 



19. Delias ethire, n. sp. 



<? , ? . A local form of hierte, Hiib. The male closely resembles 

 Delias hierte, var. indica, Wallace (Assam to Upper Tenasserim). 

 It is a whiter insect, the apex being but slightly clouded with gray, 

 the subapical band distinctly marked being gray, with the spaces 

 beyond it partly of almost pure white. The cell of the forewing 

 is white above and hardly touched with gray below, the upper 

 two or three apical pale spaces tinged with yellowish. Hindwing 

 immaculate except for the gray terminations of two or three of the 

 veins. The scarlet spots of the hindwing below are transmitted through 

 the wing as a pink band. Below, the disc, base and abdominal margin 

 of the hindwing are bright lemon yellow, becoming whitish outwardly 



