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LEPIDOPTERA 1NDICA. 
Griizerat, taken in December, and from Poona, taken in November, January, and 
February, also male from N. Kanara, taken by Mr. Davidson, and a male from 
Orissa (ex Coll, de Niceville). We possess a male from Poona taken in January by 
Col. Swinhoe, both sexes from N. Kanara, taken by the late Mr. S. N. Ward, also 
both sexes from the Nilgiris (ex. Coll. Hampson), and from Travancore. Capt. E. Y. 
Watson records it (as Lanlmpura) from “Madras, taken in July and August 55 (lx. 
p. 268). The larva of this butterfly was found by the late Sir W. Elliot at Elamane, 
Madras, on November 25th, changing to pupa December 8th, and the imago 
emerging December 17th, a coloured drawing being made of both larvae, pupae, and 
imago, the latter agreeing exactly with our male (fig. la, b). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 556, fig. 1, larvae and pupae, are copied from and 
in the same positions as in Sir W. Elliot’s original drawing ; fig. la, b, from a male 
taken at Poona in February, by Col. Swinhoe; fig. lc, from a S. Indian male ; Id, e, 
from a Malabar female ; If, from a S. Indian female ; lg, h, from a Travancore 
female; and li, j, from a female taken above the west Ghats by Mr. S. N. Ward. 
CATOPHAGA DARADA. 
Plate 557. 
Pieris Darada , Felder, Reise Novara Lep. ii. p. 166, g (1865). 
Catophaga Darada, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, p. 50. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 
p. 310. 
Tachyris Paulina (var.), Wallace, Trane. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 370. 
Catophaga Paulina et Neombo , Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 838, 
Tachyris Paulina, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 418. 
Catophaga Paulina , Rothney, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1882, p„ 35. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 
p. 371; id. Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 169. Watsoo, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 53. 
Ajopias Paulina , Adamson, List Burmese Butt, p. 41 (1897). Watson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 
1897, p. 670. 
Wet-season form (Plate 557, fig. 1, la <A, lb, c $). 
Male. Upperside greyish-white. Fordoing with the costal border blackish- 
grey speckled; an outer marginal black-scaled band decreasing hindward to beneath 
the lower median veinlet, its inner-edge being distinctly sinuous ; basal area tinged 
with pale grey. Hindwing with an outer marginal series of five black-scaled small 
dentated spots. Underside. Forewing greyish-white, the basal area faintly tinged 
with pale yellow, the apex very pale ochreous-yellow. Hindwing uniformly very 
pale ochreous-yellow. 
Female. Upperside greyish-wliite ; the hindwing extremely faintly tinged with 
pale yellow. Foreioing with the basal area and costal base broadly blackish-grey 
scaled ; a broad black outer marginal band extending from before middle of the costa 
to posterior margin, the band being angled outward beyond lower end of cell and 
