Lesser Albatross (Appias galene)

Lesser Albatross was a butterfly plentiful all over the island in all the year round (Ormiston W. 1924). Even during 1990s D’ Abrera mentioned it as “One of the very commonest butterflies on the island.... And one of the principal species that comprise the huge migrations of pieridae that sometimes fly across the country for days at a time” (D'abrera 1998). However today the situation is not so though still it is  a common species which found in intermediate to dry zones forests and in other elevations during the migratory season.  Its larva feeds on leaves of Drypetes sepiaria ( Egg laying was also observed on Drypetes gardneri leaves)