NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 19 



Neophasia menapia suffusa Stretch. Similar to typical N. men- 

 apia but with the markings more extended and rather more "white in 

 ground color. There is an interrupted marginal band of red on liind 

 wing of female, and a small, elongated patch on the same wing of male. 



GENUS IV. PIERIS. 

 WHITE BUTTERFLIES. 



Size, small to medium. Colors, white or pale yellow- 

 ish with dull black markings. Antennae, longer than one 

 half the length of the body, and the club is rather suddenly 

 enlarged. Fore wings long and pointed, hind wings rather 

 long but rounded and tailless ; neither pair are especially 

 thin. Body and thorax not as slender as in Neophasia. 

 Type, P. rafae. (Plate I, 4.) 



28. PIERIS AMARYLLIS Fab. 

 Texan White Butterfly. 

 Size, about that of P. ilaire. Color throughout, dull white with a 

 series of dusky crescent-shaped spots on the outer margin of fore wing. 

 Habitat, Southern Texas and Mexico. 



20. PIERIS ILAIRE Godt. 



Florida Cabbage Butterfly. 

 Above, dull greenish white, with extreme upper border of fore wings 

 dusky, this narrows to a mere line in the middle and widens on base and 

 apex. Fig. 11, f. There is a serrated margin of dusky on the outer bor- 

 der, widest above and narrowest below, but not reaching the lower bor- 

 der. The hind wings are without markings. Beneath the markings 

 above are not repeated but the apex of fore wings and the whole surface 

 of the hind wings are strongly tinged with ocherous yellow. There is a 

 point of orange at base of hind Avings and an orange collar. Expands 2.25 

 to o.OO. Habitat, Central and Southern Florida. 



30. PIERIS MONUSTE Linn. 



Larger Cabbage Butterfly. 

 Similar to P. ilaire but differs in being larger, Avith the black on 

 the fore wings more extended, covering the outer fourth of wing at apex, 



