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119 IPHIAS LEUCIPPE.

PLATE VII. Fig. 3.

Pap. Leucippe, Fabr. Cramer, Pl. 36, fig. A, B, C.—Donovan, Insects of India.—Pieris Leucippe, Godart.

of the largest of the Pierides, frequently measuring upwards of four inches between the tips of the wings; anterior pair bright fulvous red, clouded at the base with greenish yellow, the nervures and all the exterior parts black, the female with a row of fulvous spots parallel with the external margin, and not far from it; posterior wings citron-yellow, having a dentated or macular black border in the female, usually preceded by a curved line of spots of the same colour; but in the male marked with only one or two black spots towards the external border. Under side deep fulvous in both sexes, sprinkled with black points and marked with short transverse dusky lines, which are greatly most numerous in the female; head and thorax brown; abdomen citron-yellow; antennæ black, the extremity of the club reddish.

It is a native of Amboina; we have seen no particular account of the caterpillar, but it is no doubt similar to that of T. Glaucippe, which is described by Dr. Horsfield as of a green colour with a white lateral ray. It feeds on a species of Capparis.