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LEPID OP TEE A INEICA. 
Genus EUCHLOE. 
Euchloe , Hiibner, Yerz. bck. Schmett. p. 94 (1816). Westwood, British Butterflies, p. 30 (1841). 
Butler, Cistula, Entom. i. p. 39 (1870). Kirby, Cat. Diurnal, Lep. p. 505 (1871). 
Ajithocharis, Boisduval (part), Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 585 (1836). Doubleday, Gen. Diurnal, Lep. p. 55 
' (1847). 
Sinchloe , Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 179 (1907). 
Imago. Forewing . Costa somewhat arched, apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly 
oblique ; lower angle rounded, inner margin long and nearly straight, more than three- 
fourths the length of the costa; cell half as long as the wing, sub-costal nervure five- 
branched, the first two branches emitted before the end of the cell, the upper radial, 
thrown off a little beyond the cell, the middle discocellular nervule well marked ; all 
the veins present. Hindwing longer than the forewing, costa somewhat arched, 
especially near the base, exterior margin and lower angle evenly rounded, inner margin 
nearly straight to near the base, then strongly concave ; cell broad, lower discocellular 
the longest, middle discocellular short. Antennae short, less than half the length of 
the forewing, club abrupt, broad and flat, palpi slender, third joint short; head and 
palpi very hairy in front. 
Type, Belia , Linn., from Africa. 
EUCHLOE DAPHALIS. 
Plate 590, figs. 2, £, 2a, J . 
Anthocharis Dajphalis , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 491, pi. 31, fig. 14, J . 
Euchloe DnjjJialis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 273. 
Synchloe Daphalis, Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 676. Bingham, Fauna of 
Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 180 (1907). 
Euchloe Venosa , Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 151, pi. 15, fig. 5. 
Male. White, with the base of both wings irroratecl vjith black scales. Forewing 
with the costal margin delicately chequered with black, a black band at the apex 
containing a large white spot and three or four marginal spots, its inner portion sinuous 
and attenuated hindwarcls, a transverse black spot at the end of the cell, more or less 
lunate. Hindwing without markings, but the pattern of the underside distinctly 
showing, through the wing. Underside Forewing creamy-white, costa chequered with 
black, the discoidal spot with white centre, the apex chequered with pale greenish- 
brown, the interspaces being pale silvery white. Uindwing with transverse irregular 
bands of greenish-brown overlaid with greenish-yellow scales, the interspaces shining 
silvery white. \ 
Female. Differs from the male chiefly in having a more rounded apex to the 
forewing. 
Expanse, $ $ 1^ inches. 
Habitat. —Western Himalayas. 
