24 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



38c. PiERis RAPAE MANNI Mayer. With the markings of the 

 type, but pale, clear yellow without any ocherous tint. Habitat, Geor- 

 gia and Chicago, Ills. 



o8cl. PiERis RAPAE NOVAE-ANGLiAE Scud. With the usual mark- 

 ings but with the surface of both wings dull sulphur yellow. Habitat, 

 New England and New York. 



GENUS V. NATHALIS. DWARF BUTTERFLIES. 

 Size, small. Colors, yellow, with prominent dark 

 markings. Antennae, short, but in the male longer than 

 one half the leno[;th of the body. Fore wing;s, lonii; and 

 narrow, but with the apex rounded, without any angle on 

 on outer border. Hind wings much shorter than the fore, 

 but narrower than long, and well rounded. There is a 

 small, oval, naked, depression just over the central cell, 

 near upper border of hind wings. Type, N. iole. (Plate 

 1,5.) 



30. NATHALIS IOLE Bd. - 



Yellow dwarf Butterfly. 

 Plate I, 5, upper side, female. 

 Male, yellow above, with apex of fore wings, excepting narrow mar- 

 gin on extreme tip, two spots below this on outer border, one dot at end 

 of central cell and another between the first and second branches of the 

 middle vein, an elongated patch on lower border and another on upper 

 border of lower wing, (neither of these patches quite reach the border) 

 and some dots on outer border and along the outer portion of hind wings, 

 dark brown. Beneath, the markings are repeated, excepting patch on 

 apex of fore wings and upper border of hind wings, but not as promi- 

 nent. The apex of fore wings, base, outer margin, and a band across 

 the hind wing, are tinged with greenish. There is an elongated patch 

 of orange along the basal two-thirds of the upper border of fore wings. 

 Female, similar, but with the markings darker and more extended, 

 there being an indication of a dusky line across the middle of the hind 

 wings above. Expands l.(KJ to l.iM Habitat, Illinois, and Missouri 

 to California, also New Mexico and Arizona. 



