Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male. Dry-season brood These differ from the wet-season brood as follows: male upperside, forewing: the apical and terminal black areas much restricted; veins concolorous; black subterminal bare less clearly defined; the lower one often obsolete. Hindwing: the black markings on the termen represented by short triangular irrorations (speckles) of black scales at the apices chiefly of the anterior veins. Underside: as in the wet-season specimens, but the yellow much paler and somewhat ochraceous in tint. Female differs less from the wet-season female, but the black markings on both the upper and underside are narrower and less pronounced, and on the latter the yellow suffusion is paler and ochraceous in tint. Distribution The species lives in the north-western Himalayas up to ; Nepal; Sikkim; Bhutan; Bengal: central, western, and southern India; Ceylon. Larva "Cylindrical, tapering at the anal end; finely white-dotted, with a lower lateral white line. Feeds on Capparis." (Thwaites) Seems to prefer only Capparis zeylanica in Pune." Larval Host Plants Cadaba fruticosa Capparis baducca Capparis brevispina Capparis cleghornii Capparis decidua Capparis sepiaria Capparis zeylanica Crateva adansonii Maerua oblongifolia Pupa "Greenish; thorax and basal abdominal segment acutely angled." (de Nicéville MS) Subspecies Subspecies are: C. n. cibyra (Fruhstorfer, 1910) (Taiwan) C. n. coronis (Cramer, 1775) (China) C. n. corva (Wallace, 1867) (Java) C. n. dapha (Moore, 1879) (central Myanmar, eastern Myanmar to Thailand, northern Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi) C. n. dissimilis (Rotschild, 1892) (Bali) C. n. evagete (Cramer, 1775) (Sri Lanka, S.India) C. n. lichenosa (Moore, 1877) (Andamans) C. n. nerissa (Fabricius, 1775) (northern Vietnam, southern China) C. n. phryne (Fabricius, 1775) (northern India to western Burma) C. n. physkon (Fruhstorfer, 1910) (Lombok) C. n. sumatrana (Hagen, 1894) (Sumatra) C. n. vaso (Doherty, 1891) (Sumbawa) C. n. yunnanensis (Mell, 1951) (Yunnan) Cepora lichenosa is treated as a full species by some authors. See also List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) References Pierini Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Indochina Butterflies described in 1775 Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius