1899.] L. de Nicevillo— Lis/5 of the Bntterjlies of Geijlon. 217 



forewing. Wliafc is wanted to clear up tlie uncertainty regarding tin's 

 species is a figure of Boisduval's type specimen, this being probably iti 

 M. Charles Obertliiir's possession. We know notliiiig of the occurrence 

 of A. neouiho in Ceylon, and do not quote Dr. Moore's localities for it, 

 as his specimens were based on incorrect identification. It has not 

 been bred. 



164 AppiAS ALLUNA, Boisduval. 



Moore as Galophaija venusta, Moore. In this species the female is 

 trimorphic (in A. pdulina, Cramer, it is dimorphic), Form I having the 

 the ground-colour of the underside wholly white except a small patch 

 of yellow at the costal base of the forewing ; Form II having the 

 ground-colour of the underside of the forewing at the apex and the 

 entire hindwing chrome-yellow ; and Form III having the underside of 

 both wings as in Form II, but the uppeiside of both wings is also 

 yellow. The male differs fn)m that sex of A.pauUna in having the fore- 

 wing apparently less broad and the apex more produced and not slightly 

 truncated, the outer margin is straighter, not so concave, and the 

 discoidal cell appears to be longer and narrower ; the black markings on 

 the upperside are extremely variable in both species. It is particularly 

 common in Ceylon, occurring wherever J. pcn<Zi/?a is found and at tlie 

 same seasons. It occurs all over India, in Burma, the Andaman Isles, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Indo-China, China, the Malay Aichipelago and 

 Australia. It has never been bred. 



165. Appias PAULINA, Cramer. 



Moore as Oafophaga gnhne, Felder, and C. hinkapura, Moore, This 

 species was oiii^inally described from Tranqiiebar on the Coromandel 

 Coast of South India, and from Batavia in Java. As far as Dr. Moore's 

 descriptions of 0. galene and G. lanhapnra go tliey are fairly accurate 

 but he does not lealize that A. paulina is dimorphic in the female, as he 

 gives the Form I only for 0. gaJene, and Form II only for G. lankapura, 

 nor that the extent of the black markings on the upperside of the male 

 on which he lays stress to distinguish that sex of the two species is un- 

 important, being very variable, this variability apparently not being 

 due to seasonal causes, as the lightest and heaviest marked specimens 

 occur in the same month. The female is dimorphic, there being no Form 

 III as in A. albina, Boisduval. For two reasons there is a slight doubt 

 in de Niceville's mind as to whether the name panlimi should be applied 

 to this species. The first is that Cramer described it from Tranquebar 

 and Java. As far as de Niceville is aware, the species does not occur 

 in South India, only in Ceylon, but it is more than probable that many 



