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COLIAS HYALE. 



The pale clouded-yellow Butterfly. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Papilionidae Za/., Leach. 

 Type of the Genus Papilio Hyale Linn. 



CoLiAS Fab., Lot., Leach, Sam. — Pierls Schr. — Papilio Linn., Fab., 

 Haw., Hub., Och. 



Antennce inswted on the crown of the head rather short and ro- 

 bust, cylindric, terminated by a gradually formed club, subtrun- 

 cate and not compressed (1). 



Maxillce spiral, a little longer than the antennae (3). 

 Labial Palpi porrected obliquely, subconic, the terminal joint 

 visible ; clothed with long hairy scales beneath, which meet and 

 conceal the maxillae (4) ; triarticulate, 1st and 2nd joints of 

 equal length, the former curved, the latter straight, slightly at- 

 tenuated at the ends, the 3rd very small obovate (4a). 

 Head rather small regularly clothed with scales. Eyes ovate not pu- 

 bescent (7 & 7*). Thorax large. Abdomen longer and more slen- 

 der in the male than female. Wings large, anterior elongate-tri- 

 gonate, posterior subovate or subquadrate meeting beneath and 

 grooved to receive the body ; the central cell closed. Feet alike in 

 both sexes. Tarsi 5-jointed, basal joint long. Claws bifd (8). 

 Pulvilli very minute or none. 

 Obs. The dissections were made from C. Edusa Fab. 

 Larvae elongated, cylindric, slightly pilose, with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal 



and 2 anal feet. 

 Pupse rather short and robust, attached by the tail and girted behind 

 the thorax which is gibbous ; head beaked. 



Hyale Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 272, n. 1040. — Fab. — Haiv. — Och. — 

 Palgeno Esp. — Hub. 



Male, sulphureous. Head, upper side of palpi and antennae cas- 

 taneous brown, the tips of the latter ochreous, the underside 

 rosy. Thorax and abdomen grey, clothed with yellowish hair, 

 rosy next the head. Superior wings with the costa rosy, grey 

 at the base ; a black spot in the disc ; the posterior margin 

 black, sinuated at the edge and attenuated to the posterior 

 angle, having 4 or 5 sulphureous spots near the apex and one 

 below. Inferior wings greyish next the body, with a large and 

 small orange spot near the disc, a portion of the margin next the 

 upper wings blackish, interrupted by 1 or 2 sulphureous spots. 

 Underside of superior wings pale at the interior margin, orange 

 at their tips, with 2 brown spots on the costa and 5 blackish 

 spots near the margin, the middle of the black discoidal spot 

 yellowish j inferior wings dull orange, with a rosy spot at the 

 base, a large and small silvery spot in the disc margined with 

 dull castaneous, and 7 spots of the same colour parallel with the 

 margin. 



Female white with a tinge of sulphur, &c. as represented in the 

 figures at the top and bottom of the plate, the latter showing 

 the underside. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



