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 the marginal hand
wider, and better defined on its inner edge.
Males sometimes occur in which the marginal band is entirely wanting in
the hinder wings.
Found in the East Indies, at the Cape of Good Hope, &c.