Ill fa I' A I/)CF.RA MA LA VAX I. 



4. Appias leis, (Tab- XXV,, fig. 7 df : figs, 6 & 10 vars. $ .) 

 OfOophftga L*h t Rubier, Zulr. Ex. Scmuett. f. 771, 772 (18821. 

 Tachjrix Wall. Trans. Rut. Sac. s.u'. 3, vol. iv. p. 872, n. 24 1 1807V 



Pwr^ Ammc* Boisd. (nec Cram.}, Sp. Gen, i. p. 535, n. 148 (1886) ; Veil. Hon. Pior. p. 35, n. 45 (1865 1. 

 Pt>™ Horsf. & Moore, Oat, Lep. Jfus. E.I.C. vol. i, t. 2a, f. 3 (1807). 



Appias alope f But]. Proo. Zool, Soc. 1872, p. 48 T n. 8. 



Male. Wings above white, with a faint pale greenish tinge; anterior wings with the base and basal 

 half of costal area bluish-grey (this is much more pronounced in some specimens than in others), 

 remainder of costal margin narrowly black, apex and outer margin (the last inwardly dentately siuuatei, 

 and a submarginal curved fascia commencing at fifth subcostal nervule, forming a large subrumdrate spot 

 between the first and second median nervules, and from thence sometimes carried obscurely and narrowly 

 towards outer angle, black ; posterior wings with the base more or less bluish-grey, and with a marginal 

 row of blackiah spots placed between the nervules. Anterior wings beneath white, with a faint pule 

 greenish tinge, basal area sulphureous, apical area pale ocliraceous, and with the black submarginal faacia 

 above more or less plainly visible beneath ; posterior wings pale ocliraceous. Body above with the 

 prone turn dark bluish -grey, the abdomen pale fuscous ; body beneath and legs more or less con color ous 

 with wings. 



Female. Wings above white, with a faint pale greenish tinge : anterior wings with the basal area 

 dark greyish, the apex and outer margin broadly black, and containing four subapical white spots — the black 

 area obliquely crosses the upper extremity of cell, is more or less truncate to second median nervule, and 

 narrowed between second and third median nervules ; posterior wings with the base dark greyish and the 

 outer margin broadly bhickis.h. Anterior win^s beneath as above, but with the basal area ocliraceous, 

 and the apical black aria from the four whitish spots to apex bluish-grey, with the extreme margin 

 orhraet.'ni.H : n .si. i i r wings with the- extreme margins and neuration ochraceous, the black margin above 

 being seen aa bluish-grey beneath. 



Var. a. ? . The posterior wings beneath pale ocliraceous, the outer margin more or less violaceous. 

 (Tab, XXV., fig 6.) 



Var. b. 9 . The posterior wings beneath dark ocliraceous, with a broad chocolate-brown outer 

 margin containing a few obscure ochraceons spots. (Tab. XXV., tig. 10.) 



Var. c. 9 - Wings beneath with the apex of the anterior wings and the whole of the posterior wings 

 dark ochraceons, the last with only faint indications of the dark chocolate- brown outer margin. 



Exp. wings, 3 k 9 . 46 to 62 millim. 



Hap. — Malay Peninsula: Province Wcllesley (coll. Dist) ; Perak 'Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca 

 Ayev-panas (Godfery— coll. Dist.).— Sumatra (Brit. Mus.}.— Java (Brit. Mus,) — Borneo (Brit. Mns.) ; 

 Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



Both sexes of this species are of a very variable character. Tims the males vary in the 

 intensity of the black markings above, a peculiarity which is strongly exhibited in a series of 

 North Bornean examples now before me, in the palest specimens of which the black marginal 

 spots to the anterior wings are almost obliterated, and the black markings of the anterior 

 wings are pale and somewhat effaced. 



Some confusion It as existed in the identification of this species, several authors having 

 considered the Catophatja leis, Hubn., as bring synonymic with the Papilio panlhia, Cram., but 

 besides colour differences in the female sex — such as the width of the dark margin to the 

 posterior wings — the males are very distinct. 



June 20, 1885. 1 j. 



