addition an ill-defined, short anterior postdiscal macular black band. The underside is as in the male, with similar variations, but in addition in most specimens the discocellular spots are well defined with an outer red ring that encircles a silvery spot; on the hindwing one or two similar spots on each side of the discocellulars; generally also both wings are crossed by a transverse postdiscal line of minute red spots, which on the forewing is confined to the anterior portion, on the hindwing is nearly complete. In both sexes: antennae reddish, head and thorax anteriorly brown, thorax clothed posteriorly with long white hairs, abdomen white: beneath: the palpi, thorax, and abdomen white. Life history The host plants of the species include Cassia species (e.g., C. fistula; C. javanica or C. roxburghii; C. bakeriana), Gnidia glauca, Senna occidentalis Senna species (e.g. S. alata; S. auriculata; S. garrettiana), Crotalaria species, Ormocarpum cochinchinense, Sesbania species and Colocasia. The development period from egg to adult is 22 to 29 days allowing up to 11-12 generations a year. Larva: "Long, somewhat depressed, rough, green, with a white lateral line and above it a black line more or less conspicuous, formed by minute black shining tubercles. In short, this larva in very like a big specimen of a Eurema hecabe". Pupa: "Much stouter (i.e. than that of Eurema hecabe, and the keel formed by the wing-cases much less pronounced. The normal colour is pale green with a yellow lateral line. We have never found it on any plant except Senna occidentalis. It habitually rests on the upperside along the midrib, like almost all Pierine larvae." Davidson and Aitken, quoted in Bingham. Larval Host Plants Senna auriculata Cassia fistula Cassia javanica Senna tora Ormocarpum cochinchinense Senna obtusifolia Senna occidentalis Senna sophera Senna sulfurea Sesbania sp. Sesbania bispinosa Sesbania grandiflora Sesbania sesban Gnidia glauca Range India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaya and New Guinea. Gallery See also List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) References and notes Shihan, T.R. (2016). A Photographic Guide to the Butterflies of Bangladesh. Butterfly Reintroduction Farm, Chuadanga, Bangladesh, 165pp. Coliadinae Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Butterflies of Singapore Butterflies of Indochina