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LEPIDOPTERA INDIG A. 
Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, p. 358; id. 1896, p. 569. Ferguson, Journ. 
Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 445. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 166. Kirby, Alien’s Nat. 
Libr. Butt. ii. p. 167, pi. 56, fig. 1, 2 (1896). Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 144. Mackinnon, 
Journ. Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 586. 
Picearda Eucharis, Grote, Froc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1900, p, 32. 
Pieris Epicharis, Godart, Encyl. Meth. ix. p. 153 (1819). Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 456 
(1836). 
Papilio Hyparete, Herbst, Nat. Sehmett. v. pi. 101, figs. 3, 4, 5, g $ (1792). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside creamy-white. Forewing with all the veins black 
lined ; crossed by an outer-discal black narrow band, the black expanding on each 
vein and then dilating outwardly—-thus forming a marginal band enclosing a 
submarginal series of white outwardly-pointed conical spots. Hindwing with a 
similar but less defined black outer-discal slender band and marginal dilated end to 
the veins, enclosing a row of pale pink broad cordate spots. Underside. Forewing 
similar to the upperside, except that the veins are broader black bordered. Hindwing 
with all the veins black bordered ; the outer-discal black narrow band and marginal 
end of the veins prominent, enclosing a series of bright scarlet cordate spots edged 
with white ; the inner area from base to discal band pale lemon-yellow, or sometimes 
ochreous-yellow, except anteriorly, where it is white. 
Female. Upperside creamy-white. Both wings with all the veins broader black 
bordered than in the male; on the hindwing the discal and marginal band is also 
broader, and the pink cordate spots more defined. Underside similar to the 
male. 
Expanse, 6 ? 2f- to 3J inches. 
Larva. —Subcylindrical; head small; body sparsely clothed with fine long 
hairs ; colour ochreous-browui, minutely white spotted ; head and legs black. 
Pui J A.—Thick anteriorly; with a frontal short spine and dorsal row of short 
black spines; colour yellow, spotted with black. 
Habitat. —Lower Himalayas ; Continental India ; Ceylon. 
Larva ; Habits, etc.— 44 The larva may be found in the Kanara District of 
Bombay, from the beginning of August, everywhere, on the common 4 Mistletoe ’ 
(Loranthus longiflorus) , from which it will drop and hang by a thread if the tree is 
shaken; we have never found it feeding on anything else. The larva is long, 
cylindrical and smooth, with an oily gloss ; two subdorsal rows of long white bristles 
springing from minute white tubercles ; head, sides and back sparsely clothed with 
short white bristles ; colour brown, head and feet black,. Unlike most butterflies, 
this species lays as many as 20 or 30 eggs on the underside of one leaf, in parallel 
rows, with equal intervals, and the larvm continue in some measure gregarious to the 
]ast, so that a large number of pupge are often found, at little distance from each 
other, on a wall, or the trunk of a tree. The pupa is closely attached by the tail and 
