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Female witli a broader black costal and exterior marginal band, which is angled 

 inward above end of the cell and more or less confluent with a discocellular spot, the 

 band subapically traversed by three or four pale spots : hindwing with a sinuous- 

 bordered black marginal band. Underside pale yellow, the posterior discal area of 

 forewing whitish ; a slight ochreous streak on upper discocellular veinlet on the 

 hindwing. 



Female Variety. — Upperside more uniformly yellowish, or pale yellow, with 

 much broader costal and marginal band and confluent discocellular spot on forewing, 

 and the hindwing having a broader marginal band with confluent narrow lunular 

 discal band. 



Expanse 2\ to 2f inches. 



Larva cylindrical ; dark green, minutely black spotted, with a broad bluish- 

 black lateral band and pale lower line. Pupa green; tapering to a slender point at 

 each end, thorax convex. 



"Feeds on Gassia fistula, &c." (Thwaites). 



" Everywhere. Plains and hills up to 6000 feet, in forest and cultivated land. 

 Have taken them at almost all times. Flight strong, quick, sits in crowds on damp 

 spots of roadside " {Hutchison). 



" In all parts, but numerous in the lower country " (Mackwood). 



CATOPSILIA GNOMA (Plate 48, Fig. 2, ?, 2a, larva). 



Papilio Gnoma, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. App. p. 828 (1775) $ . 

 Callidryas Gnoma, Butler, Lep. Exotica, i. p. 43, pi. 16, f. 1 — 4. 

 Papilio Philippina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 361, f. C, D (1781), ? . 

 Colias Philippina, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 130. 



Male : pale olivaceous- white : forewing with a very slender blackish-brown 

 apical band which is macular on the exterior margin ; a slender streak at end of the 

 cell. Female with a slightly broader and more distinctly macular marginal band, 

 and larger rounded spot at end of the cell. Underside dull yeUowish-ochreous, 

 numerously covered with brownish-ochreous strig«,an indistinct transverse discal fascia 

 formed of shghtly darker strigae across both wings ; a small red streak at end of each 

 cell. Female brighter yellow ; strig£e distinct ; discal fascia reddish and macular on 

 the hindwing ; a duplex purple-white centred reddish-bordered spot at end of cell on 

 forewing, two pearly-white centred and a large inner spot with similar borders at end 

 of cell, and a red streak at base of the cell on hindwing ; costal and outer margins 

 narrowly bordered with red. 



Expanse, $ 2|, 9 2|- inches. 



Larva cylindrical ; green, spotted with minute black dots, with a lateral yellow 



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