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Show 838 MR. F. MOORE ON LEPIDOPTEROUS [Nov. 5, delicate dark strigae, and submarginal brown spots centred with white. Female with moderately broad orange band. Expanse, (J 2, $ If inch. Moulmein to Meetan. In coll. J. Wood-Mason. ERONIA LUTESCENS, Butler. Moulmein to Meetan. CATOPHAGA NEOMBO. Pieris neombo, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 539 (1836), Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.L C. i. pl. 2A. f. 3. Moulmein to Meetan (a single female). CATOPHAGA PAULINA. Pieris paulina, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. t. 110. f. E, F (1779). Moulmein to Meetan; Hatsiega to Houngduran; Naththoung to Paboga. (All males.) CATOPHAGA LAGELA, n. sp. (Plate LII. fig. 4.) Allied to C. lalage, Doubleday, D. Lep. pl. 6. f. 3. Male and Female. Smaller. Upperside differing on the fore wing in the black apical border terminating in both sexes before reaching the posterior angle, and the medial portion partly excavated outside the lower end of the cell and thence extending across the end to its base ; hind wing with a broad marginal continuous band (as in C. pandione, Hiibn.). Underside-fore wing with the black band terminating as above; the apex and hind wing greyish-yellow, speckled with purple in male, and brownish-grey with darker speckles in female, the speckles numerous across the disk, and forming zigzag fasciae. Expanse 2\ inches. Moolai, 3000-6000 feet. In coll. J. Wood-Mason. APPIAS LEA. Pieris lea, Doubleday, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1846, p. 23. P. clemanthe, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. pl. 6. f. 3. Moolai, 3000-6000 feet. APPIAS NAMA. Pieris nama, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.L C. i. p. 76 (1857) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 102, pl. 44. f. 1, 2. Houngduran source ; Taoo, 3000-5000 feet (March); Moolai, 3000-6000 feet; Moolai to Moolat, 4000-5000 feet. APPIAS DAPHA, n. sp. Allied to A. zeuzippe, Cram. Male differs on the upperside in being white; the apical band on the fore wing more like that of A. nama, narrower, deeply scalloped within ; anterior spots obsolete; and the contiguous discal spots |