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LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A. 
In C-eylon, Dr. Thwaites found the larva feeding on Loranthus. Mr. F. M. Mack- 
wood records it as being common throughout the low country, and up to 4,000 feet 
altitude ; at times a few occur higher up. The larvae feed on the parasitic Loranthus , 
sometimes in thousands, but fortunately Ichneumons destroy the greater number ” 
(Lep. Ceylon, i. 140, 1881). In Madras Capt. E. Y. Watson ‘‘took it in July and 
August 5 (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1890, 268). Mr. W. C. Taylor records it“ very common 
at Khorda, Orissa ” (List, p. 15, 1888). Mr. L. de Niceville states that it u swarms 
in the neighbourhood of Calcutta in the winter; specimens are to be met with 
throughout the year 55 (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, 51). Mr. J. Rothney says it is the 
commonest butterfly in Barrackpur Park, near Calcutta ; it occurs in numbers from 
April to October” (Ent. M. Mag. 1882, 35). 
In Sikkim, writes Mr. H. J. Elwes, “ it occurs at low elevations from April to 
October ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 407). 
We possess specimens from Kasauli, W. Himalaya ; Nepal, taken by Genl. G. 
Ramsay; Bombay, Nilgiris, and Ceylon; also a male, labelled “Burmah,” but 
which locality is doubtless incorrect. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 534, fig. 1 larva and pupa, is copied from Mr. A. 
Grote’s Calcutta drawing ; la, b, a W. Himalayan male, and lc, d, a Nepal female. 
PICCARD A HIERTE (Plate 532, fig. 2, 2a, J, 2b, c, p ; Plate 533, fig. 1, la, lb, c, $ ). 
Pontia Hierte , Hiibner, Zutrage Exot. Schmett. i. p. 17, fig. 77, 78, (1818) ; id. Yerz. bek. Schmett. 
p. 92 (1818). 
Pieris Hierte , Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 758. 
Delias Hierte , Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 108. Watson, Journ. Bombay N. II. Soe. 1888, p. 25; id. 
l.c. 1891, p. 51 ; id. 1897, 668. Manders, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 533, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Bond. 1893, p. 311. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 166. Adamson, List Burra. Butt, 
p. 41 (1897). Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 144. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 270. 
Thyca Hierte , var. Indica , Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Bond. 1867, p. 351, d ? • Elwes, id. l.c. 1888, 
p. 408. 
Delias Indica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Bond. 1878, p. 839. 
Thyca Devaca, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 566, ?. 
Imago.— Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the veins either only 
slenderly greyish-black lined and the black scales obscurely expanding on each side 
of the veins obliquely before the apex, and then dilating at their end from the sub¬ 
costal to lower median, thus enclosing an apical series of ill-defined whitish streaks, 
or the veins are also broadly black bordered, with their subapical expansion and 
dilated end also broader and more prominently black, and the cell streaks of the 
underside slightly visible. ILindwing with the veins greyish-white, the submarginal 
scarlet spots and dark marginal band of the underside being faintly indicated ; in 
