vienus Euchloe 
Genus EUCHLOE, Hiibner 
(Anthocharis of authors) 
(The Orange-tips) 
41 When daffodils begin to peer, 
With, heigh! the doxy over the dale, 
Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year; 
For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale.” 
Shakespeare. 
Fig. 143.— 
Neuration of 
the genus Eu¬ 
chloe. 
Butterfly .—Small butterflies, white in color, with the apical 
region of the primaries dark brown, marked with spots and bands 
of yellowish-orange or crimson. On the under side 
the wings are generally more or less profusely mot¬ 
tled with green spots and striae. 
Egg. —Spindle-shaped (see p. 4, Fig. 6), laterally 
<= . marked with raised vertical ridges, between which 
are finer cross-lines. 
Caterpillar. —The caterpillar, in its mature stage, 
is relatively long, with the head small. 
Chrysalis. —With the head relatively enormously 
projecting; wing-cases compressed, and uniting to 
form a conspicuous keel-shaped projection, the 
highest point of which lies at the juncture of the two ends of the 
silk girdle where they are attached to the supporting surface. 
There are numerous species of this genus, and all are exceed¬ 
ingly pretty. 
(1) Euchloe sara, Boisduval, Plate XXXII, Fig. 28, 6 ; Fig. 
29, ? (Sara). 
Butterfly. —The wings on the upper side in both sexes are 
shown in the figures above cited. On the under side the hind 
wings are marked with dark irregular patches of greenish-brown 
scales loosely scattered over the surface, and having a “mossy” 
appearance. 
There are several forms which are regarded by recent writers 
as varieties and may probably be such. Of these we give the 
following: 
(a) Variety reakirti, Edwards, Plate XXXII, Fig. 31, S ; Fig. 
32, ? (Reakirt’s Orange-tip) = flora, Wright, Plate XXXIV, Fig. 
4, 6 ; Fig. 5, ?. This form hardly differs at all from the form 
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