30 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



of the secondaries in the females are less neat and less distinct than 

 in C. chrysotheme. 



California, Mexico, and some of the States. 



BOISD. 



7. C. pelidne Boisd. Boisd. et Lee. 66, pi. 21. 



Upper side of all the wings yellow, inclining a little to greenish, 

 with a black border, regularly sinuated on the internal side, and 

 ending on the secondaries towards the middle of their outward 

 seam. 



Under side of the primaries is paler, with the edge powdered 

 with darker atoms, and an oval, central, elongated point, pupilled 

 with reddish. 



Under side of the secondaries is greenish yellow, with a rounded, 

 central, reddish point, surmounted by another much smaller point 

 of the same color. The base also has a reddish point. 



The fringe .of all the wings is red ; antennae yellowish rosy, with 



the knob brownish above and yellowish below. 



Labrador. 



Boisd. 



8. C. phicomone Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 100. 



Upper side greenish yellow in the male ; greenish white in the 

 female, covered in both sexes with a blackish powder, usually less 

 abundant in the disk of the primaries, marked with a black dis- 

 coidal point; a rather wide blackish border, and divided by a 

 range of spots of the ground color. Secondaries have also a black 

 border, divided by a band of the ground color; but the black 

 often disappears, especially in the female, so that the border is 

 formed by a yellow or whitish band ; a discoidal yellow spot. 



Under side of the primaries white, more or less greenish, with 

 the i^ummit rnssety yellow; a silver discoidal point, bordered with 

 ferruginous, sometimes united to a smaller point ; a small ferrugi- 

 nous spot on the insertiun of the median nervure and the costal 

 edge. 



liabrador. 



Boisd. 



9. C. nastes Boisd. Spec. Gen. I, 648. 



Smaller than G. phicomone, but very similar to it. 

 Under side yellow, a little greenish, powdered as in phicomone, 

 with the fringe and the edge of the primaries a little more rosy ; 



