PIERIDAE 
148 
APPIAS 
211. Appias melania Fabricius. Fig. (4^503, 504. 
Systema Eintomologiaej 475, 1775. 
o^. Above. Forewing wliite dusted bluish grey: costa nai-iwly, ai3ex and termen, black: a series of 
dusted bluish grey. Hindwing bluish grey: apex obscurely and irregularly 
Beneatix. Forewmg white: apical area brown with apex dusted paler: subapical spots as above 
but smaller: basal half of cell, dull orange. Hindwing brown dusted grey: costa at base mrmvK- 
orange. ^ 
2. Above, lorewing as in male: apex broadly black. Hindwing as in male: termen obscurely and 
irregularly, black. 
Beneath as in male: cell of forewing and basal edge of costa of hindwing, bright orange Hind 
wing often with a dark brown diseal band. 
Loc. Cooktown 11 12. Cairns 10 11. Kuranda 1 2 3 4 8 10 12. 34^^ 12 g. 
described this species as asteria, and applied llie name melania to llie next species. Fruh- 
lei ledeseribed this species as ceritssaj having wrongly identified ega as melania. 
212. Appias celestina Boisduval. Fig. 483, 484. 
Voyage Astrolabe, Lepidoxitera, p. 46, n. 1, 1832. 
blue-grey; apex and termen obscurely brown. Hindwing pale blue-erey: 
teimen obscurely and very narrowly brown: costa at base narrowly yellow. ^ 
termen, broadly black: base broadly dusted blue-grey: 
dusted blue-<ilty ^ broadly black: base and dorsum brSdly 
uoapieal spots, reaching as a subterminal series to area 2, white. Hiudwino' white tinned vellow 
termen broadly brown: costa at base narrowly yeUow. ” ^ ^ 
Loc. Cape York. 2^ Ig. 
all S ivhidf are ^ f examples 
ieasfn To doubt anv Xf a"' ^ut we have uo 
of mT Jas A TCersl. nv fu! Miskin s records. T ie male is figured from a specimen in the collection 
the female so mneli sn tli t ^ ^'i Queensland jMiiseum are both in damaged condition, 
o behevTthe An i foi- tl^® wLreiuclmed 
Genus CATOPSILIA Hubner. 
Verzeichniss bekannt-er Schinetter]inge, p. 98, 1816. 
Type. CatopsiUa pomona Fabricius. 
Foodplant. Cassia. 
throughout the ^do butterflies, of rather more than medium size, occurring 
a ridge S lonVw iown^ marked dimorphism. The Us hav^ 
ised scales between subcostal and base of veTn 8%?bSvinVTLvT'"'“° 
