Talk:Prioneris sita

Bingham description
Upperside: white, with a slight glaucous or greenish tint. Fore and hind wings: the postdiscal markings of the underside seen through faintly by transparency; all the veins of the forwing from the base, and the veins of the hind wing on the outer third margined narrowly with black, that towards the terminal margin broadens, coalesces and forms a band on the extreme margin; on the fore wing this is comparatively broad and the black markings more or less triangular; at each vein on the hind wing the band is reduced to mere black lines, slightly broader anteriorly than posteriorly.

Underside: fore wing white, costa black, apex suffused with yellow; all the veins from the base broadly with black that does not expand towards their apices; an ill- defined transverse, somewhat diffuse, postdiscal black band from veins 1 to 7.

Hind wing: rich chrome-yellow up to a postdiscal band, beyond which the ground-color is white with a series of large terminal vermillion-red rectangular ot truncated cone-shaped spots; veins from base bordered somewhat narroly but conspicuously with black.

Antennae brownish black, head and thorax clothed with long bluish-grey hairs, abdomen glaucous white; beneath: the palpi and thorax greyish white, abdomen white.

Female. Very similiar, the black edgings to the veins on the fore and hind wings on both upper and under sides broader; on the upperside the veins of the hind wing as well as of the fore being black right up to the base. Upperside: fore and hind with a well-marked dusky black postdiscal diffuse band; cell of the fore wing transversed by three slender longitudinal black lines. Underside: the yellow and vermillion tints brighter than in the male.

Exp. male,female 86-90 mm (3.40-3.55"). Hab. Southern India; Ceylon.

Larva. "Color dull blue-green. Head and all the segments dotted with minute blue tubercles, those on the head and sides black-tipped; dorsal surface pubescent; a lateral fringe of the soft white hairs below the spiralces. Feeds on the Capparis." Pupa. " Bright green. Sharply pointed at the head, with two strong lateral points and keeled on the dorsal surface of the thoracic segments; an interrupted yellow dorsal line, and a short curved crimson line on each side below the thoracic segemnts bordering a small white irregular black speckled spot." (E.E. Green, MS. note as quoted by Moore.) --Viren 16:11, 2 July 2007 (UTC)