PIERIS. 19 



Bod 1/ whli'ish ] head saffron yellow; antennoe black, annulated 

 with white, with the club greenish white. 

 California — Chili. 



3. P. oleracea Barr. Ins. Mass. (1842), 214. 



All the wings white ; base of the primaries dusky. 



Under side of primaries yellowish at apex ; nervures darkish. 



Under side of secondaries straw color, with broad dusky nerv- 

 ures ; base, deep yellow. 



Body black ; antennte blackish, annulated with white ; ochry at 



the end of the club. 



Northern States. — Expands two inches. 



Harris. 



P. casta Kirhy. — P. cruc'tferarum Boisd. Spec. Gen. 519. Figured in 

 Kirby Faun. Bor. Amer., IV, pi. 3. 



Antenna? black, annulated with white; wings white; primaries, 

 at the anterior margin, sprinkled with blackish ; secondaries, under- 

 neath, with a few scattered black scales accompanying the nervures; 



wings rounded and very entire. 



Kirby. 



P. menapia Felder. Wiener Entom. Monatsclirift, III, No. 9, 271. 



Wings tender, white ; veins black at the base ; elongate ; con- 

 colored ; costal streak and apical edge black ; this edge profoundly 

 sinuate within, and divided on the under side with six (in the male 

 five) large white spots. 



Secondaries of the male with a submarginal streak, flexuous ; 

 blackish above, with black points situated at the extreme of the 

 veins ; below more distinct. 



Secondaries of the female with the same streak, but much more 

 distinct and obscure ; below, the veins widely margined with fus- 

 cous ; the costa, the basal and other spots a little livid ; abdomen 

 above blackish, below whitish. 



Utah. 



Felder. 



