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ANTHOCHARIS DANÆ.


PLATE VII. Fig. 2.


Boisd.—Pap. Danæ, Fabr., Donov. Insects of India, Pl. 1, fig. 2.—Pap. Eborea, Cramer, Pl. 352, fig. C, D, E, F.—Pieris Danæ, Godart.—Pontia Danæ, Horsfield, Insects of Ind. Comp., p. 141, 68.


Surface of the male pure white; the upper wings having a large triangular patch of bright carmine at the extremity bounded on the inner side by a black oblique band, and narrowly margined with the same colour externally, where the nervures are likewise black; there is likewise a black point at the extremity of the discoidal cell: under wings with a black border, variable in breadth, and occasionally macular. Under side impure white, with a black streak at the extremity of all the discoidal cells, those on the hinder wings divided by a reddish brown point; the apex of the upper wings fulvous-red, divided by a curved row of blackish spots, continued across the under wings as far as the anal angle. The female differs from the male in having a large space at the base of the wings dusky, and