132 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CETLON. 



the entire hindwing pale dull ochreous-yellow. Female. Upperside yellowish-white : 

 forewing with a broader and more prominently black costal and apical border and 

 traversing white spots : hindwing with a marginal black dentated macular band. 

 Underside : forewing with the base suffused with yellow ; apex pearly violaceous- 

 white bordered by a subapical ill-defined slender blackish band : hindwing pearly 

 violaceous-white. 



Variety of Female. — Upperside bright yellow, marginal markings similar to 

 those in white female. Underside : costal border and apex of forewing and the 

 entire hindvdng ochreous-yellow ; discal area of forewing pale yellow, the subapical 

 black band more or less distinct. 



Expanse 2 to 2J inches. 



" Central Province. Hills 3000 to 6000 feet. Open places in forest. Generally 

 in company with C. Galene and C. Lanhapura but more common than the latter. The 

 yellow variety found with the white one — but less common" (RutcMson). 



" Hills from 2500 feet, and principally up to 4000 feet. Found in abundance in 



early months of the year, taking part in the large annual flights of butterflies " 



(Mackivood). 



CATOPHAGA VENUSTA (Plate 51, Fia. 3, ? ). 



Intermediate between G. Neomho and G. Galene. Male similar to G. Galene, 

 the apex very sparsely black speckled. Female : forewing differs from white form 

 of G. Neomho in the costa being somewhat more narrowly black bordered and 

 the black then continuing from upper end of the cell less obliquely below the 

 apex, where it is more pointed towards the exterior margin, the lower portions as in 

 G. Neomho, the apical spots as in G. Galene : hindwing with a marginal apical series 

 of four small black-speckled spots. From female G. Galeyie it differs also in the 

 narrower black costal border, more lengthened and outwardly-pointed border below 

 the apex, the lower portion more rounded, less excavated below, and narrower at 

 the posterior angle ; apical spots similarly disposed : hindwing differs in having a 

 marginal upper row of four very small spots. Underside similar to both species, the 

 black subapical band in female narrower than in G. Neomho, and indistinctly defined 

 below the middle median vein. 



Expanse, S 2\, ? 1| to 2 inches. 



Has been taken by Mr. J. Pole in the Vavonia Vivankulam district in low 

 country, north of Trincomalie, during December. 



CATOPHAGA GALENE (Plate 51, Fig. 2, 2 a, *, c? ?)■ 

 Pieris Galene, Felder, Novara Voy. Lep. ii. p. 165 (1865). 

 Male. Upperside white : forewing with the costal base and apex slightly 

 speckled with minute black scales which form on the latter an indistinct sinuous- 

 bordered apical band. Underside : apex of forewing, and the entire hindwing pale 



