Genus Pieris 
stages of various species found in the tropics ot the Old World 
to know that there is a very close relationship between this genus 
and that which follows in our classification. 
(i) Tachyris ilaire, Godart, Plate 
XXXV, Fig. 4, 6 ; Fig. 5, $ (The Florida 
White). 
Butterfly .—The hind wings of the male 
on the underside, which is not shown in 
the plate, are very pale saffron. The under 
side of the wings in the female is pearly- 
white, marked with bright orange-yellow 
at the base of the primaries. A melanic 
form of the female sometimes occurs in 
which the wings are almost wholly dull 
blackish on both sides. 
Early Stages .—We know, as yet, but 
little of these. 
The insect is universally abundant in 
Fig. 140.— Neuration of t ^ e tropics of America, and occurs in 
the genus Tachyris. Hind r . * 
wing relatively enlarged. southern Florida. 
Genus PIERIS, Schrank 
(The Whites) 
“And there, like a dream in a swoon, I swear 
I saw Pan lying,—his limbs in the dew 
And the shade, and his face in the dazzle and glare 
Of the glad sunshine; while everywhere, 
Over, across, and around him blew 
Filmy dragon-flies hither and there, 
And little white butterflies, two and two, 
In eddies of odorous air.” 
James Whitcomb Riley. 
Butterfly. —Medium-sized butterflies, white in color, marked 
m many species on both the upper and under sides with dark 
brown. The antennae are distinctly clubbed, moderate in length. 
The palpi are short, delicate, compressed, with the terminal joint 
quite short and pointed. The subcostal vein of the primaries has 
four branches, the first subcostal arising before the end of the cell, 
the second at its upper outer angle, and the third and fourth from 
a common stem emitted at the same point. The outer margin of 
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