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LEPIDOPTERA INDICIA. 
Imago. Forewing more elongated than in Pieris Gratsegi, exterior margin more 
convex ; first and second subcostal branches both emitted further from before the 
end of the cell, and the fourth branch much further from the apex below the third; 
cell broader. Hindwing more elongated apically ; cell broader and less pointed at 
the end; lower discocellular less oblique. Palpi stouter, more densely hairy beneath; 
antennae longer ; abdomen compactly scaled. 
Type. —M, Agathon. 
Habits oe Larva. —According to the observations of Mr. P. W. Mackinnon, 
made in Masuri, the “ larvae of if. Gaphusa are gregarious, spinning a joint feeble 
web, under which they lie in communities of ten or more. The pupa is also 
gregarious.” 
Mimicry. —if. Qajphusa, Ariacct , and Agathon are fair mimics of the common 
Limnaine butterfly Pawantica melanoides. 
METAPORIA PHRYXE (Plate 525, fig. 1, la, lb, ?). 
Peris Phryxe, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 446 (1836). Blanchard, JaequemonPs Voy. Inde iy., 
Ins. p. 16, pi. 2. fig. 1 (1844). 
Metaporia Phryxe, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1878, p. 61. Moore, P. Z. S., 1882, p. 256. 
Aporia Phryxe, Mackinnon and de Nieeville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 589. 
Imago.— Male. ITpperside pale yellowish-wliite, veins black lined ; cilia greyish- 
black. Forewing with a black slender costal edge, a broad discocellular patch at end 
of the cell, the black also bordering the outer veins and expanding in their middle, 
thence dilating at their marginal end. Hindwing with black-bordered veins, the black 
of the outer veins being medially expanded and then marginally dilated as on the 
forewing. Underside. Forewing white. Hindwing pale yellowish-white, with the 
base of costa chrome-yellow. Both wings with black vein-markings as on the upper- 
side. Body above black ; thorax and head clothed with intermixed fine silky black 
and greyish hairs ; legs black, femora and tibise white streaked; antennas black. 
Female. Upperside duller yellowish-white. Both wings with similar, but 
duller black and somewhat broader vein-markings than in the male. Underside with 
similar duller black markings as on the upperside, the ground-colour of the hind- 
wings being also duller yellow tinted than in the male. 
Expanse, A 3 to 3J, ? 3J to 3J inches. 
Habitat. —W. Himalayas. 
Distribution. —Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records this as {c somewhat rare in Masuri, 
much more so than Gaphusa , but occurs at the same time—May and June ” 
(J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, 589). We possess both sexes from Simla, and a female 
from Kunawur, taken by Capt. A. M, Lang. In the British Museum collection are 
