LEPIDOPTEKA INDICA. 
Sub-family PIERINiE (cotdi in.icd) 
Genus LADE. 
Lade, de Niceville, Jo urn. Bombay Nat. Hint. Soc. 1898, p. 153. 
Male. Forewmg triangular, costa much arched towards the end, apex some- 0 
wliat falcate, exterior margin crenulatecl anteriorly; cell broad, llindiving 
triangularly-oval, very convex exteriorly. No tufts of hair present at base of the 
anal clasps ; a lengthened rigid introinittent organ generally exserted. 
LADE LALASSIS. 
Plate 551, fig. 1, la y {Wet-season Brood), lb, e £ (Dry-season Brood). 
Pieris Lalassis, Grose-Sraith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 265; id. Bhop. Exot. ii. P. pi. 2, 
fig. 1, 2, 3 $ (1889). 
HvposcriUa Lalassis, Adamson, List Bunn. Butt. 1897, p. 44. 
Hyposcritia Lalassis , Butler, Ann. Nat, Hist, 1898, p. 395. 
Lade Lalassis , de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 153. 
Pieris Indroides, Honrath, Bei l. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p, 403 (woodcut fig.). 
Iliposcritia Lucasi, var. Lalassis, Fruhsfcorfer, Deufcs. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 284. 
Wet-season form . Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the costa 
narrowly edged with grey-black scales ; a broad black-scaled apical-marginal band 
decreasing much in width, to or near the lower median veinlet, its inner edge being* 
more or less defined, and irregular from below the subcostal; a small more or less ill- 
defined black-scaled discal spot between the upper and middle median veinlet, and a 
smaller blacker spot on middle of the lower discocellular veinlet. Hind/wing unmarked. 
Underside, or owing with the apical band irrorated with brownish-ochreous scales, 
the discal and discocellular spot prominently black, the latter larger than on upper- 
side. Hindwing irrorated with brown scales, and traversed by an ill-defined 
darker-scaled discal and a sub marginal zigzag fascia. 
Female. Unknown. 
Expanse, c? 3 to 3^ inches. 
von. vii. September 19th, 1905. B 
