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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Metaporia Acrxa (Pieris Acrrna, Oberthiir, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 226. id. Etud. 
Ent. xi. pi. 2, fig. 7). Leech, l.c. ii. p. 458. Habitat. W. China. 
Genus ANAPHZEIS. 
Anaplueis , Hiibner, Yerz. bek. Sclimett. p. 93 (1816). 
Pinacopteryx (Sect. 1), Wallengren, Rhop. Caffr. p. 7 (K. Svenka Yet. Akad. Handl. 1857) id. 1858. 
p. 75. 
Belenois, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 137 (1881).— Nec Hiibner. 
Imago. —Male. Forewing triangular; costal edge smooth (not serrated as in 
type of Belenois) exterior margin sliglitly uneven; costal vein extending to two- 
thirds the margin ; subcostal vein four branched, first subcostal branch emitted at 
about one-fourth before end of the cell and partly anastomosed to the costal vein at 
some distance before its end, second branch at one-eighth before end of the cell, 
third bifid, the upper discocellular being emitted at one-third beyond the cell ; 
discocellnlars oblique, upper shortest and slightly incurved, lower radial from their 
angle ; middle median at two-fifths, and lower at one-fifth before end of the cell; 
submedian vein slightly recurved. Hindwing broadly oval; exterior margin slightly 
scalloped ; precostal vein short, curved, emitted at some distance beyond base of 
costal vein; first subcostal branch at more than half before upper end of the cell; 
upper discocellular very oblique, shortest, lower less oblique; cell fusiform; middle 
median at one-fifth and lower at nearly one-half before end of the cell; submedian 
long, straight; internal vein slightly recurved. Body moderate; thorax clothed 
with fine silky hairs; abdomen compactly scaled; palpi long, very laxly hairy 
beneath, second joint extending beyond the eyes, third joint long and slender; 
antennae with a lengthened spatulate club. 
Type. —A. Creona. 
ANAPHiEIS 
MESENTINA (Plate 527, fig. 
1, larva and yupa ; la, b, c, $, Id, $ ; le, <y, If, g, h, $ ). 
Papilio Mesentina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pk 270, fig. A, B (1782). 
Pieris Mesentina, Godart, Encyc. Meth. ix. p. 130 (1819). Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 501 (1836). 
Kollar, in Hiigel’s Kasehmir, iv. 2, p. 409 (1844). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. 
p. 46 (1847). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 72, pi. 12, fig. 9, 9a, larva and pupa 
(1857). Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 102; Chaumette, id. l.c. 1865, p. 37. Moore, P. Z. S. 
1865, p. 489. id. 1882, p. 255. Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 204 (1869). Bienert, 
Lep. Ergeb. Reise Persien, p. 26 (1869-70). Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 511 ; id. Tr. Ent. Soc. 
1885, p. 343. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1888, p. 417. 
Pontia Mesentina , Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 142 (1829). 
Belenois Mesentina , Butler, Ann. Hat. Hist. 1880, p. 223; id. 1882, p. 4 ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, 
p. 409, pi. 39, fig. 6, pupa, de Nieeville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Swinboe, P. Z. S. 
