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it at Meteleo in August, Cobaga, and at Bkamo in November. Dr. N. Manders 
found it “ not uncommon in the Shan States, occurring also in Eastern Karenee ” 
(Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 588). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 582, fig. 2, 2a, 2b, c, are from a Nepal male and 
female. On Plate 583, fig. 1, la, 1, b, c, are from a Burmese male and female. 
PICCARDA ETHIRE. 
Delias Ethire , Dolierty, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 268, $ . Taylor, Butt, of Orissa, p. 15 
(1888). Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 144. 
Imago. —“ Male and female. The male closely resembles Delius Eierte, var. 
Inclica. It is a whiter insect, the apex being but slightly clouded with grey, the 
subapical band distinctly marked, being grey, with the spaces beyond it partly of 
almost pure white. The cell of the forewing is white above and hardly touched with 
grey below. The upper two or three apical pale spaces tinged with yellowish. 
Hindwing immaculate except for the grey terminations of two or three of the veins. 
The scarlet spots of the hindwing below are transmitted through the wing as a pink 
band. Below, the disc, base and abdominal margin of the hindwing are bright 
lemon-yellow, becoming whitish outwardly on the disc, the scarlet sub marginal band 
is rather narrow and even. Female. Like the male, and has little resemblance to 
the female of Eierte ; it is white, all the veins accentuated with black, the extreme 
apex and the subapical band of the forewing dark grey, leaving a whitish band 
tinged with ochreous across the apex. Below, the female is like the male, the apex 
of the forewing is more distinctly marked with lemon-yellow, and the veins and 
subapical band are darker, the cell marked with perceptible grey lines. The brilliant 
lemon and scarlet hues of the hindwing are transmitted through the wing, appearing 
above as creamy and pink. The two lower discocellulars of the forewing are less 
oblique and more angled outwardly than in Eierte } resembling those of Ducket') is. A 
local form of Eierte .” 
“ Expanse, 98 millimetres.” 
Habitat. —Madras ; Orissa; Lower Bengal. 
Distribution. — “ Common in the Vizagapatam District, Madras Presidency, at 
Bobbili, Parvatipuram, the Potingi Ghat, etc., and in the Jaipur State, probably 
extending to the Godavari ; scarce in the Ganjam District, Mahendragiri; also seen 
in Southern Orissa, where it is probably rare ” (Doherty, l.c. 263). A male and 
female from Berhampur, Madras, are in the British Museum. A male, fiom the 
Sunderbunds, Lower Bengal, is in Col. C. Swinhoe’s Collection. “ Very common at 
Kliorda, in Orissa ” (W. 0. Taylor, lx.) 
