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LEP1D0PTERA INBICA. 
cell, second immediately before the end, and third from end of cell, third with a 
short fork near its end, the upper radial being emitted from the subcostal at fully 
two-thirds beyond the cell; the cell broad, longest in the male ; discocellulars 
oblique, very slightly concave, upper short, the lower radial from their angle ; middle 
and lower median much the widest apart; submedian vein well recurved. 
Hincliuing broadly oval, somewhat prolonged apically, and very slightly obtusely- 
angular at end of lower subcostal branch in the male, the angulation being more 
apparent in the female; cell long, broad across the middle and truncate at its end ; 
discocellulars very oblique ; first subcostal branch short; submedians long. Thorax 
densely clothed with fine hairs ; abdomen of male above compact^ scaled laterally, 
with a dorsal ridge of short fine hairs, and a similar series beneath ; palpi short, 
hairy beneath, terminal joint slender, as long as the second; antennas with a 
lengthened fusiform compressed club. 
Larva.— Stout, cylindrical, clothed w 7 ith short fine hairs. When young living 
gregariously under a common silken web. Feeds on Hawthorn, Sloe, and various 
Fruit trees. 
Pupa. —Rather stout; head obtusely pointed in front; thorax dorsally convex. 
Type.—P. Cratasgi. 
PIERIS SORACTA (Plate 523, fig. 1, larva and pupa ; la, b, c, d, g, le, f, 2 ). 
Apjoria Soracta, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 83 (1857). Lang. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 
p. 102. Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 489; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 256, pi. 11, fig. 5, larva. 
Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 135. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Jonrn. Bombay Nat. 
Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 589. 
Pontia Soracta , Butler, Prcc. Zool. Soc. Loncl. 1878, p. 58. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside white ; extreme outer margin and cilia black, edged 
with grey. Foreiving with the costal-edge and the veins slenderly black lined, more 
distinctly so along their outer end ; a black variable slender or moderately-broad 
streak at end of the cell, this streak sometimes extending more slenderly at both 
ends, from the base of first subcostal branch to the lower median branch, its outer 
edge being also angled at base of each veinlet except the lower median, and 
sometimes also prominently extending along the upper and middle median to, and 
coalescing with the transverse band; a black transverse discal sinuous band from 
the costa to lower median veinlet, this band is very variable, being either almost 
obsolete, or slightly, or prominently defined, the outer margin of the wing being 
narrowly black and inwardly angled at the veins, these two bands, in the pro¬ 
minently marked specimens, enclosing a series of submarginal oval spaces. 
Hindwing with the veins entirely white and unmarked or with the veins black lined 
