136 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Allied to A. Hippo. 



Expanse 2i to 2f inches. 



Larva cylindrical, dark green, minutely black dotted ; a white lateral line, and 

 pale green beneath. Pupa pale pinkish olivaceous-green ; head acutely produced, 

 thorax and lower dorsal segment angular. 



" Feeds on Cratoeva " (Thivaites). 



" Low country. Found generally in the months of September to December. 

 Larva feeds on Cratoeva religiosa " (Machwood). 



Genus HUPHINA. 



Wings broader and shorter than in Appias : forewing less triangular, costa much 

 arched from the base, apex almost rounded ; costal vein extending to half the 

 margin ; upper discocellular deeply concave, not oblique, lower less concave ; cell 

 shorter : hindwing broader ; cell narrower and longer ; discocellulars more obhque ; 

 antennal club slender. 



Type, H. Coronis. 



HUPHINA PHRYNE (Plate 53, Fig. I, 1 a, b, ^ ?, larva). 



Papilio Phryne, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 473 (1775). 



Pieris Pliryne, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 202. 



Papilio Euagete, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 221, fig. F, G (1782). 



Male. Upperside white : forewing with the veins black lined, a broad black 

 outer marginal band traversed by white spots ; veins basally and the base of costal 

 border greyish : hindwing with a broad black lunular-bordered marginal band. 

 Female yellowish -white ; veins of forewing and outer bands broadly brown-black, 

 traversing marginal spots yellowish on forewing, more prominent and cordate on 

 hindwing. Underside with the veins blackish-bordered ; apex and costa of forewing, 

 and hindwing yellow. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Larva cylindrical, tapering at anal end ; green, finely white dotted, with a lower 

 lateral white hne. Pupa greenish, thorax and basal abdominal segment acutely angled. 



"Feeds on Capparis" (Thwaites). 



" Colombo, and on road from Kandy to Trincomalie. Plains ; both in cultivated 

 land and forest. Not at all common. Has a slow, uncertain flight " {Hutchison). 

 ' "Kandy" {Wade). 



" In low country and hills ; chiefly from 2000 to 4000 feet, not frequently 

 beyond " {MacJcwood). 



