butter yellow. Female has the upperside similar to that of the wet-season form but the black area on both forewings and hindwings much restricted just as it is in the male. The underside is also similar to that of the wet-season form but on the forewing the curved black band is very much narrower, and the nacreous surface of the hindwing has more or less of a yellowish tinge. In both sexes and in both seasonal forms the antennae are black minutely speckled with white, the tufted hair on the head and thorax anteriorly greyish green, abdomen white; beneath: head and thorax pale yellowish white, abdomen white. The wingspan is 65–76 mm. This species is found in the Western Ghats and the hills of southern India. See also Pieridae List of butterflies of India List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) References Appias (butterfly) Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1884 Taxa named by Frederic Moore