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RHOPA LO CERA MALAYAN A. 



This genus until quite recently was better known under the name of CaUidnfas, and 

 embraced a number of American species as well as those of the Old World. Subsequent and 

 more careful examination lias shown that the butterflies of these areas are genericaliy quite 

 distinct, the peculiarity in neuration of the wings being sufficient to easily separate them. 

 Tim Old World species are thus grouped under Hiibner's genus Catopsilia, and are found in 

 Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, Madagascar and the African Islands, Continental India, 

 the Malay Peninsula, throughout the Malayan Archipelago, and also in Australia and New 

 Zealand. 



The species of Catopsilia are usually very abundant and gregarious, and notices of their 

 habits have already been given under the generic name of Gallidrjfas (antea, pp. 284-5). 



t. Catopsilia crocale. (Tab, XXV., fig. 11 <r , 12 e .) 



Papilio Croeale, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. t. 55, C, D (1779), 



PopiUo Jwiutttia, Gram. Pap, Exofc. iL 1. 187, E, F {1779), 



Papiliu Alem#nu, Fabr. (nee. Cram,), Exit. Syat. iii, p. 190, n. 611 {1798). 



Colics Jtyttrthina, Godt. Enc, MAth. ix. p. 96, u. 21 (1B19). 



CaUulnja* erwah, Boiad, Sp. Gen. L p. 625, d, 19 (1836) ; Wall. Trans. Ent. Boo, ser 4 8, vol. iv. p. 4QG, 

 n. 7 (1867) ; Butl, Lep. Ex. p. 22, t. 9, t 1, % 8, 0 (1870 i ; Drueo, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 855, 

 u. t; ibid. I874 t p. 108, n. 2; Snoll. Tijd. Eni xix. p. 18, n. 80 (1876); ibid, xxi. p. 85, n. 184 

 {1878) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Boo. 1878, p. 887. 



Catopsilia rrwte, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soe* ser. 2, Zool. vol. I. p. 550, n, 1 (1B77I; Moore, Proo. Zool, Soc. 

 1877, p 591 ; ibid, 1882, p. 253; Lep, CeyL vol. i. p. 122, t. 46, f, 1, la, 6 (1881) ; Wood- Mm. aud 

 do Nic. J. A, 8. Beng. vol xlix, p, 236, n, 60 (1880) ; de Nic J. A. 8. Beng. vol. li, p. 68, n, 188 (1882) ; 

 Kheil, Bhop, dor InscL Nias, p. 35 t n. 184 (1884). 



Uotuta Atcauone, Horaf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C- p. 131 (1829). 



( miilrya* Alcmeane, Horsf. A Moore, Cap, Lop, Mu8. E. L C. vol. i. p. 57, fc, 1, f, 7, 7<i 1 1837). 

 Var. 9 . QtUMrya* Endetr, Boisd. Voy. Astr. Lop, p. 68, t, 2, f, S, 4 (1832). 



Male, Wings above very pale greenish -white ; anterior wings with the costal and outer margins— 

 broadest at apex and not reaching the outer angle — dark fuacouB ; the basal third of wing and costal area 

 to a little beyond end of cell sulphur- yellow ; posterior wings with the inner half— concave externally— 

 ftulphur-yellow. Wings beneath pale stramineous, with an oehraceous tinge ; anterior wings with the 

 lower half — beneath cell and extending to onter margin— pale greenish- white. Body abo^e with the 

 pronotura dark and thickly covered with long pale greenish hairs, the abdomen pale oehraceous, eyes 

 castaneous, body beneath with legs more or less coneolorotis with wings. 



Female, Wings above greenish -white or pale sulphureous, both wings with the basal areas more 

 or less suffused with darker sulphureous or pale oehraceous as in male. Anterior wings with the costal 

 and outer margins broadly and irregularly dark fuscous, broadest at apex, where there is a more or less 

 distinct suhaptcal fascia enclosing some pale apical spots j a dark fuscous spot at end of cell sometimes 

 connected with the dark costal margin. Posterior wings above with the outer margin broadly and 

 irregularly dark fuscous, sometimes having some faint and obscure pale fuscous submarginal markings. 

 Wings beneath as in male, but darker, with one small disco-cellular spot on anterior wings and two on 

 posterior wings. 



Exp. wings, £ , 6*2 to 6S millim. ; 2 , 70 to 78 millim- 



Hao.— Continental India ; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking— Moore) ; Darjeeling, Punjaub, Nepal (Butler) ; 

 Madras Const (Brit, Mus.) j Bombay (Leith — coll. Dist).— Ceylon (Moore).— Andaman Islands ; Port Blair 

 (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Nicobar Islands; Katnorta (Moore). — Burma; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.),— 



