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PIERIS EPICHARIS. 
PLATE VI. Figs. 1 and 2. 
Godart, Doisd. Pap. Hyparete, Fair. — Pap. Euchavis, Drury's 
Insect. PI. 10, fig. 5, 6 Cramer s PI. 201, fig. B, C ^ ; PI. 
202, fig. C?. 
This pretty insect belongs to a sub-division which 
inhabits the continent of India and the adjacent 
islands. The wings, which expand about three 
inches, are white, very faintly tinged with blue, with 
a broad black border, interrupted by a series of 
rather larger oval spots, the same as the ground 
colour on the upper wings, but flesh-colour on the 
under ; the nervures, on the former, defined by 
a dilated black line : in the female, this is like- 
wise the case with the inferior wings. Under side 
■of the primary wings similar to the surface, except 
three marginal spots towards the apex, which are 
yellowish in the male and of a bright yellow in the 
female ; secondary wings bright yellow beneath, the 
nervures black, and along the hinder border a row 
of <-large oval, or somewhat heart-shaped, scarlet 
spots, placed in a white circle; body whitish. 
Common in Bengal, and many places in the more 
eastern parts of Asia. 
