PTERINS. 
199 
Dry-season Brood. 
Applets vacans , Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 135, pi. 52, fig. 2, 2a <f (1881). 
Applets Aperta, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 188. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 532 (1887). 
Male. Upperside similar to wet-season ; marginal band on the hindwing some¬ 
what narrower. Underside. Forewing with white or pale yellow apical spot. 
Hindwing paler yellow, including the veins ; marginal band narrower. 
Expanse, d 2yb-, 9 2 to 2 1A j inches. 
Larva.—C ylindrical, dark green, minutely black-dotted; a whitish sublateral 
line ; beneath pale green. 
Pupa. —p a le pinkish olivescent-green ; head acutely pointed in front, thorax and 
anterior abdominal segments dorsally angulated : wing-cases also angled laterally. 
Habitat. —Cevlon. 
Distribution. —“ Found in the low country, generally in the months of September 
to December. Larva feeds on Cratseva religiosa 55 (F. M. Mackwood). Capt. 
Hutchinson obtained it at “ Colombo ; in open waste ground from October to end of 
the year. Flight quick; alights on shrubs. Shy, but when driven off generally 
returns to the same spot. Only appeared one year, and then tolerably plentiful ” 
(Lep. Ceylon, i. 135). 
APjPIAS latifasciata. 
(Plate 541, fig. 3, 3a, 3b, $ (wet form). 
Appicis latifasciata, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 312, $ $ . 
Catophaga latifasciata , Watson, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 501. 
Appias vacans , Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, p. 362. Ferguson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 
1891, p. 444. 
Catophaga Hippo, Watson, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 8, 9 (dry form). 
Appias (Catophaga) Hippoides, Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1897. 
Appias Taprobana , de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1900, p. 254. 
Imago. —Male. Larger than A. Taprobana. Upperside with similar broad black 
outer marginal dentated band. Underside also similar. Forewing with the apical 
spot yellow in the wet-season form, white in the dry-season. Hindwing deep yellow 
in wet form, paler in the dry form, exterior marginal band broader, costal and sub¬ 
costal vein densely brown-scaled, these brown scales also broadly bordering the sub¬ 
costal and its branches from their base, thus forming a prominent fascia ; the discal 
interspaces between the subcostal and radial being more or less whitish. 
Female. Upperside fuliginous-black. Forewing with slightly-defined whitish 
cell-streak, two white upper-discal streaks and entire lower-discal area or lower discal 
streaks. Hindwing with olives cent ye]iowish-white basal area, and broad fuliginous- 
black sinuous marginal band. Underside fuliginous-brown. Forewing similar to 
