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PONTIA DAPLIDICE. 

 Green chequered white, or Bath white, Butterfly. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Papihonidae Lat., Leach. 



Type of the Genus Papilio Daplidice Lhin. 



PoNTiA Fab., Leach. Pieris Schrank., Lat. Papilio Linn., Fab., Llaw. 

 Antenna composed of about 30 joints, with an abrnpt, obconic, 

 compressed club of 7 or 8 joints (f. 1. shows part of the antenna ) 

 Labrum attached to the clypeus. (2. a.) 



Mandibles attached to the clypeus, remote, parallel, ciliated. 

 (2. b.) 



Maxillce long and spiral (3.) : with a small palpus of two joints 

 near the base. 



Labium triangular, elongated (5.) : Palpi porrected obliquely, 

 3-jointed, covered with scales, the two first with long hairs also 

 (4.) : first joint long, recurved from the base, cylindric, second 

 conical, as long or longer than the first, the third slender, linear, 

 much shorter than the second in P. Cardamines and Daplidice 

 (4. a.), and longer than the second in the other species. 



Wings not very narrow or much elongated, posterior ones with a groove 

 on the abdominal margin to receive the abdomen. Peet alike in both 

 sexes. Tarsi ^-jointed, first joint very long. Claws unideutate or 

 bifid. 



Larvae elongate, cylindric, doicny, sometimes tuhercidated. 



Pupse elongate^ angular, beaked, attached by the tail, girted round the 

 middle. 



Daplidice Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 760. 81. Fab. Ent. Syst. t. S. pars 1. 

 p. 191, n. 593. LLato. Lep. Brit. p. 10. n. 11. 

 Male nearly white. Superior wings above blackish at the apex, 

 interrupted by large white spots, a blackish spot near the centre 

 towards the costa, with the transverse nerve passing through it 

 whitish : posterior wings variegated with griseous ; superior 

 wings beneath with the same spots, and a small one near the 

 posterior angle green speckled with black : inferior wings beneath 

 green speckled with black, having a row of white spots on the 

 margin, an interrupted fascia parallel to the margin, and three 

 other white spots towards the base. Abdomen black with gri- 

 seous hairs. Female larger than the male, with an additional 

 blackish spot near the posterior angle of the superior wings, a 

 blackish margin with white spots, and a large black spot upon 

 the inferior wings ; beneath similar to the male. 



In the Cabinet of Mr. Stephens. 



The Genus Poulta contains five British species, which, with the 

 exception of the one figured, are amongst the most common of 



