22 Mr. E. Doubleday on some new Diurnal Lepidopter-a. 



show the character of the head j and the skeleton of the head is 

 in preparation for the Norwich museum, where the teeth and 

 skull can be examined by those who may wish to test the above 

 description. 



V. — Descriptions of new or imperfectly described Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera. By Edward Doubleday, Esq., Assistant in the 

 Zoological Department of the British Museum, F.L.S. &c. 



[Continued from vol. xvi. p. 308.] 



Fam. PIERID^. 

 Genus Pieris. 



Pi. Habra. Pi. alls omnibus supra albis, anticis costa ad basin, ma- 

 cula discoidali, alteraque marginis externi, magnaque apicis in qua 

 maculae tres albse, nigris, posticis supra nervulis juxta marginem 

 tenue nigris, subtus pallidis, fuscescenti, flavo, alboque variis, vitta 

 ad basin miniacea. Expans. alar. 2 unc. 7 lin. vel QQ millim. 



Hab. Honduras. 



Anterior wings pure white, the costa at the base black, irro- 

 rated with white, the apex broadly and triangularly black, the 

 outer margin marked below the middle with a rounded black 

 spot united to the black of the apex, the disco-cellular nervule 

 marked with a dot of the same colour. Posterior wings pure 

 white, the nervules at their extremities slightly black. Below, the 

 anterior wings are marked nearly as above, but the apical mark- 

 ings are very pale brown, and the light spots are of a pale yellow 

 instead of white ; the base is shaded with fuscous along the costal, 

 subcostal and median nervures. Posterior wings below very pale 

 brown, slightly pearly, the nervures and nervules, a series of lines 

 along the cellular folds, two lines in the cell, a large spot about 

 the middle of the anterior margin, and the outer margin broadly 

 pale fuscescent ; four bright yellow vittse extend from the base 

 along the cellular folds for about two-thirds of their length, of 

 which one is above the subcostal nervure, the others between the 

 cell and the abdominal margin ; between the median nervules 

 are two spots of the same colour and opposite to the disco-cellu- 

 lar nervule is a third ; the black outer margin is marked with a 

 series of white spots, slightly tinted with yellow; the costa is 

 miniaceous at the base. 



Head black with a few white hairs on the vertex ; palpi black 

 above, varied with white below ; antennse black, the apex white. 



Thorax clothed with long gray hairs. Legs white, with a black 

 line on each side of the femora and tibise. 



Abdomen white. 



