oblique curved black band that crosses the forewing is distinctly narrower with a tendency to become diffuse. The wingspan is 60–74 mm. It is found in Sikkim up to , Bengal, western and southern India. Also extending into north-eastern India, Burma and the Malay peninsula. Life cycle Larva "Light green with a yellow-white spiracular band from segments 2 & 3 to segment 12, where the band expands somewhat. Head round, shining, yellow .... covered with small conical setiferous black tubercles; body rugose, with six transverse rows from above the spiracular region over the dorsum, of small, shining, setiferous, conical black tubercles to each segment; segments 2, 12 and 13 have only a few transverse rows of such tubercles." Pupa "Dirty whitish, with a pink shade on segments 4 to 14. The head-process from between the eyes is long, flattened at the sides, slightly curved, pointed at the extremity .... edges on ventral surface minutely serrated. The front margin of segment 2 is produced into a small subdorsal tooth, and the dorsal line is rather strongly carinated; thorax highly carinated on the dorsal line ...; lateral teeth of segments 6, 7 and 8 are all of the same size and are pointed ...; the head-production, the points on segment 2, the teeth on segments 6 and 7 (sometimes) and the extremity of the cremaster black." (After de Nicéville.) Food plants Drypetes oblongifolia, Drypetes roxburghii and Drypetes venusta. Gallery See also Pieridae List of butterflies of India List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) Notes albina Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Oceania Butterflies of Indochina Butterflies of Australia Butterflies described in 1836 Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval