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LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A. 
Habitat. Japan.— -Damns Megamera (Synchloe Megamera, Butler, Cist. Entom. i. 
p. 173 (1873). P. Melete, var. Megamera, Leech, lx. ii., p. 449, pi. 43, fig. 3, 4, J ¥ 
(1894). Habitat. Plakodadi, Japan.— Danaus Dulcinea (Ganoris Dulcinea, Butler, 
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882. p. 18). P. Melete, var. Dulcinea, Leech, lx. ii. 
p. 450. Habitat. Corea.— Danaus Orientis (Pieris Napi, var. Orientis, Oberthiir, 
Etudes Ent. v. p. 13 (1880). P. Melete, var. Orientis, Leech, lx. ii. p. 450. 
Habitat. Askold.— Danaus Hrutse (Pieris Erutse, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, 
p. 19). P. Melete, var. Erutse, Leech, lx. ii. p. 450 (1894). Habitat. Moupin.— 
Danaus Veris (Pieris Melete, var. Yens, Staudinger, Rom. Mem. Lep. iii. p. 126, 
pi. 16, fig. 1, 2 (1887). Leech, lx. p. 451. Habitant. Amurland.— Danaus Man- 
darina (Pieris Melete, var. Mandarina, Leech, lx. ii. p. 451 (1894). Habitat. 
W. China.— Danaus externa (Pieris Erutae, var. extensa, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
1888, p. 19). Pieris extensa, Leech, lx. ii. p. 454, pi. 36, figs. 4, 5, 3 7, ib. pi. 43, 
fig. 6, S (1894). Syn. Pieris Eurydice, Leech, Entom. 1891, Suppl. p. 5. Habitat. 
W. and C. China. 
Genus PONTIA. 
Poniia , Eabricius, Illiger’s Mag. fiir. Ins. vi. p. 283 (1807). Leach, Edin. Encyc. p. 716 (1815). 
OehseMieimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 30 (1816). Samouelle, Ent. U. Comp. p. 236 (1819). 
Jermyn, Butt. Coll. Yade Mec. pp. 44, 66 (1824). 
Poniia , Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 48 (1824). Scudder, Proc. Amer. Acad. A. and Se. 1875, p. 255; id. 
Butt. U. S. ii. p. 156 (1889). Kirby, Allen’s Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 151 (1896). Grote, Proc. 
Amer. Phil. Soc. 1900, p. 38. 
Pieris (pt.), Latreille, Gen. Cr. et Ins. xiv. p. Ill (1305) ; id. l.c. iv. p. 203 (1809). Doubleday and 
Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 42 (1847). Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 9 (1863). Tutt. Brit. Butt, 
p. 229 (1896). 
Ganoris (pt.), Dalmann, Yet. Acad. Hand! 1.816, pp. 61, 86. 
Synchloe (pt.), Hlibner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 94 (1816). 
Mancipitm (pt.), Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 22 (1827). Bennie, Consp. p. 4 (1832). 
Mancmiurn, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 5 (1850). 
Synchloe , Sehatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 61 (1886). 
Imago.— Forewing triangular ; apex obtuse, rounded, exterior margin oblique, 
posterior margin short; subcostal vein three branched, first and second branches 
free, upper radial from below the third subcostal branch at nearly half beyond the 
cell; upper discocellular veinlet short and outwardly-oblique, lower concave, lower 
radial from their angle ; cell long, broad; middle and lower median veinlets wddest 
apart. Hindwing short; anterior margin arched, apex and exterior margin convex; 
cell broad apically; upper discocellular short and oblique, lower concave; upper 
subcostal short. Thorax , head and front finely hairy; palpi very small, hairy 
beneath to the tip, terminal joint slightly shorter than second; abdomen smoothly 
