PIERINAE. 
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slender. Antenna 3 with a rather short flattened club. Anal valves with a basal 
lateral-tuft of hairs beneath ; intromittent organ usually exsertecl. 
Type. —C. Paulina. 
CATOPHAGA WAEDII. 
Plate 552. 
Catophaga Wctrdii, Moore, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1884, p. 43, £ ?. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. 1888, p. 362. Watson, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 499. Butler, Ann. Nat. 
Hist. 1898, p. 898. Fruhstorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 288. 
Appias (Catophaga ) Ward'd, Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 574. 
Appias Wardii, de Nieeville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1900, p. 256. 
Wet-season Brood (Plate 552, tig. 1, la A > lb, c ? ). 
Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with a broad black apical marginal 
band extending outwardly from middle of the costa to the submedian at the 
posterior angle, the inner edge of the band is excavated angularly outward beyond the 
cell beneath the lower subcostal veinlet to the upper median, and is then concave 
between the middle and lower median, below which the band is imperfect and 
decreasingly terminates at the submedian ; the band is traversed by a curved subapical 
row of five white spots ; basal area of the wing broadly grey and sparsely speckled 
with minute black scales along base of the costa. Hindwing with the outer marginal 
series of broad more or less confluent dentated black spots decreasing in size and 
width from the apex, the anal area being slightly speckled with black scales ; basal 
area pale grey scaled. Underside. Forewing greyish-white ; apex pale yellow, with 
a black narrow subapical band extending from middle of the costa to posterior angle 
as on upperside. Hindwing uniformly pale yellow throughout. 
Female. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with a broader bub similar 
excavated black outer band than in male, the posterior end being entirely black to 
the submedian vein, the band with three upper subapical white spots, the two lower 
minute or absent; basal area also darker grey and blackish scaled. Hindwing with 
a broader continuous black outer marginal band, its inner-edge acutely dentated, and 
inwardly broadly bordered from the lower subcostal veinlet to abdominal margin 
with greyish-black scales. Underside. Forewing with the discal area white, the 
base pale yellow-tinged, the apex glossy greyish-white, the curved black band 
broader and more prominent tliau in the male. Hindwing glossy greyish-white, the 
outer border darkest, the costal edge tinged with pale yellow. 
Expanse, <? 2^ to 3, ? 2^ to 2 inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Plate 552, fig. Id, e, f, g k, i ?). 
Male. Upperside of a whiter tint than the ivet form. Fureimig with the black 
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