30 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
Fig. 9. Colias philodice, female (nat. size). 
5. CoLiAs PHILODICE, Godt. 
Co'-li-as phil-od’-i-ce. 
Expanse of wings—male, 2.25 inches; female, 2.5 inches. 
Upper side of the wings sulphur yellow, with a black bor- 
der on the outer margin, which, in the females, is quite broad 
on the fore wings, and spotted with yellow. <A black dis- 
coidal spot, larger in the females than in the males, rests on 
the end of the cell near the middle of the fore wings, and a 
pale orange spot occurs in the same. position on the hind 
wings. 
Antenne, head, collar, costal edge of the fore wings and 
all the fringes, light purplish red. 
Under side of the fore wings are the same color as above, 
with the costal and outer margins and the whole under side 
of the hind wings sprinkled with brown scales. Discal spot 
on the under side of the fore wings, black with a white cen- 
ter, while on the hind wings it consists of two small silvery 
