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LEPID OP TEPA INDICA. 
Delias Sanaca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 256. de Niceville, Tran?. Ent, Soc. 1889, p. 343. 
Elwes, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 159. Mitis, Iris, vi. p. 133 (1893). 
Delias flavalba , Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 759. 
Delias Belladonna (pt.), Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, 
p. 585. 
Tmag-o.—M ale. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the costa, disco- 
eellulars, median branches, and outer margin slightly bordered with blackish scales, 
or all the veins and veinlets from their base ; the discocellulars and the outer 
margin more broadly black bordered (varying to still greater width in certain 
specimens, and in which the ground-colour should be termed greyish-black and the 
markings white), thus leaving a whitish broad cell area, a discal transverse series of 
narrow elongated streaks and an outer marginal row of small lanceolate marks, the 
two latter series being more or less perceptibly coalescent. Findwing with the 
subcostals and median slenderly black lined, and their outer marginal ends more 
broadly dilated with black scales ; and a slightly-defined similar scaled subapical 
streak, or, the subcostals, the median and its branches basally, are broadly black 
scaled, thus broadly enclosing the white central area of the cell ; beyond is a more 
or less slightly-defined submarginal blackisli-scaled diffused narrow hmular line 
extending from near the apex to lower median, and a slender marginal line, thus 
enclosing a more or less apparent row of extreme-marginal whitish broad conical 
spots ; these spots are quite differently placed, on both the upper and underside, to 
those in D. Horsfieldii and Belladonna ,-—in these two latter species their position 
is submarginal, the entire series being disposed inwardly and at some distance away 
from the extreme outer margin ; base of costa chrome-yellow, and anal area broadly 
diffused with paler yellow. Underside greyish-white. Both wings with similarly 
disposed blackish markings, those on the hind wing being vinaceous-black. Find- 
wing with the cell area, costal, discal, and marginal white interspaces, each centrally 
clouded with yellow. Body above blackish scaled ; abdomen beneath greyish-white ; 
thorax beneath, palpi, antennae, and legs black ; femora and tibiee slenderly white 
streaked. 
Female. Upperside. Both wings with broader and more prominently black 
markings than in the darkest male, the white interspaces being thus more restricted 
and sharply defined, the yellow of the anal area on the hindwing is also paler and 
more diffused. Underside similar to the male, the dark portions of the hindwing 
more vinaceous-black. 
Expanse, d ? 3^ to 3f inches. 
Habitat.— W. Himalayas. 
Distribution. —Capt. A. M. Lang records this butterfly as ec very rare. 
Obtained only in one richly-wooded glen near Dharin, far in the interior of the 
