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in the Plains and up to 6,000 feet, in open ground and forest, being much more 
common in the Hills than in the Plains. It has a very rapid and long flight. 95 Mr. 
F. M. Mackwood found it ec most abundant in low country and up to 4,000 feet. 
It is found all the year round. In the up-country flights, this species forms a third 
or half of the whole number ; on a sunshiny day thousands will pass by in an hour. 
When the flight is over, they are to be found congregated on damp spots in the open 
sunshine in great numbers. I have seen quite 100 within the diameter of twelve 
inches 55 (Lep. Ceylon, i. 133). Mr. T. A. Mann (referring to this species as Galena) 
writes : “ I observed this butterfly migrating in thousands across the northern part of 
the Island during March and April, 1859, in a direction from N.E. to S.W. The 
movement commenced about 7 a.m., and lasted until noon, when it decreased, and 
was renewed in the afternoon for another two hours 55 (Proc. Linn. Soc. London, 
June, 1895). 
CATOPHAGA GALENE. 
Plate 555. 
Pieris Galene, Felder, Feise Novara Lep. ii. p. 165, g (1865). 
Tackyris Paulina (pt.), Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 369. 
Catophaga Neombo, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 131, pi. 50, fig. 3, a, b ? (nee fig. 3) A 
Catophaga Venusta , Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i, p. 132, pi. 51, fig. 3 $ (1881). Dry form. 
Catophaga albina (pt.), Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 397. 
Appias albina , de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 217, nec Boisd.j 
Plate 555, fig. 1, la, b g, lc, d, li, i $ . 
Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the base of costal border and 
basal area very slightly grey-scaled, the apical border very slenderly sinuously-edged 
with dusky-grey scales, or these scales are absent (as in fig. lb). FLindwing un¬ 
marked, or the upper veinlets marginally ended with a few dusky grey scales. 
Underside. Forewing with the apical area, and the entire hindwing, washed with 
very pale ochreous-yellow. 
Female. Trimorphic . Form I. (wet season , fig. lc, d, h, i.) Upperside with the 
ground-colour of both wings yellow, that of the forewing being of a more or less 
pale lemon-yellow tint, and the hindwing of an ochraceous tint. Forewing with the 
basal area and base of costa broadly dusky-grey scaled ; a broad black outer band 
extending from middle of the costa and decreasing hindward to the posterior angle, 
its inner upper edge being outwardly-obKque and angled beyond the upper end of 
the cell and again at upper median veiniet, below which it is excavated to the 
* This fig. 3 was taken from a South Indian specimen in our Collection, which we then mistook to be the 
male of this species, but have now proved it to be the extreme-dry form of C. Wardii , and as such we have 
described it and rtfigured it on our.Piate 552 (fig. If, g). 
f The true albina of Boisduval (Spec. Gen. p. 480) is an allied species from Amboina. 
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