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Pieris Hippo (pt.), Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. T. C. i. p. 71 (1857). Wallace, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1867, 
p. 366. 
Tacliyris Hippo, Manders, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 534. 
Appias Hippo , Watson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1897, p. 670. 
Tctchyris Lyncida Hippo (pt.), Fruhstorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 288. 
Wet-season Brood (Plate 540, fig. 1, la, $ , lb, c, $ ). 
Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the subcostal branches finely 
black-lined, the costal-margin and borders of the apical-veinlets bluish-grey scaled ; 
an exterior-marginal black narrow dentated band. Hindwvfig with a similai marginal 
narrow black dentate band, which is inwardly broadly bordered by bluish-grey 
scales. Underside. Forewing greyish-white, with a broad cuprescent-brown costal 
band and a continuous exterior-marginal band, the latter being broader than on the 
upperside ; a subapical prominent gamboge-yellow and a similar minute spot eithei 
above or below it. Hindwing gamboge-yellow, with a broad exterior marginal 
cuprescent-brown band—the inner edge of which is sinuated. 
Female. Upperside dark sepia-brown. Forewing with two upper and two 
lower discal greyish-white longitudinal streaks, and generally an intermediate more 
or less obscurely-defined medial-discal streak, the lower discal streak being bifid 
externally \ and also an obsolescent streak extending inward from apex of the cell. 
Hindwing with the base and lower-discal area to the submedian vein pale sullied 
greyish-brown, the anterior-discal area between the veins, the outer portion of the 
cell, and the abdominal margin greyish-white streaked, these streaks extending 
pointedly outward into the marginal band. Underside. Forewing paler brown, with 
the cell-streak, two upper and three lower discal broad streaks and the posterior 
margin greyish-white, the apex also being very slightly sullied-white streaked. 
Hindwing yellow, the disc sometimes whitish ; the veins brown-lined ; the cuprescent- 
brown exterior marginal band broader than in male. 
Expanse, d 2^ 0 , ? 2f 0 to 2^ 0 inches. 
Intermediate Wet Brood (Plate 540, fig. Id, e , 1 f, g $ ) . 
Male. Upperside similar to wet form . Underside. Forewing also similar, 
except that the costal and outer band is paler, and the apical spot is white. 
Hindiving much paler yellow, the outer marginal band somewhat narrower and 
paler. 
Female. Upperside paler sepia-brown than in wet form. Forewing with the 
discal white streaks less prominent, the cell-streak obsolete. Hindwing with the 
discal streaks less defined. Underside. Forewing paler sepia-brown than in wet 
form, the cell-streak and discal streaks less prominent. Hindwing greyish-white, the 
veins brown-lined but less defined, the marginal band paler. 
Expanse, d 2/h to 2^,, ? 2^ inches. 
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