26 IIAUSTF.IXATA. LF.PIDOPTF.R A. 



the species which originally formed the type of the genus Pieris of 

 Schrank,— which name I am, however, aware has been used by 

 Mr. Swainson, in his Zoological Illustrations, for a group of South 

 American white butterflies, but, in my opinion, improperly. 



sprinkled witli black dots, and the hinder margin nearly transparent and 

 fuscous, a little irrorated with dusky, with an irregular waved dusky band 

 parallel with the hinder margin, and sprinkled with white : the under surface 

 is nearly similar, but the two black spots towards the tip are nearly eva- 

 nescent, and are red in the centre : the posterior wings above have the base 

 and inner edge dusky : an ocellus with a white pupil, surrounded by a red and 

 black iris on the costa, and another similar one on the disc : these ocelli 

 appear on the under surface, which is also adorned at the base with an inter- 

 rupted red band externally bounded by black, and on the inner edge is an 

 irregular dash of red, edged with black, tending towards the discal ocellus : 

 the base of the wing is dusky, and there is a faint trace of a fascia of spots 

 parallel with the hinder margin : the body is dusky, clothed with cinereous 

 hairs : the antennae white, with a black club. 



Caterpillar velvety-black, clothed with short stiff black hairs; and adorned with 

 two rows of deep orange spots, one dorsal, the other ventral ; the margins of 

 the segments are black, edged with blue : the head is small in proportion to 

 the body, and the neck is furnished with a yellow, furcate, retractile, tenta- 

 cule : it feeds on the saxifragae. The chrysalis is black, powdered with blue ; 

 it is thick, short, oval, spotted with red on each side anteriorly : is usually 

 accompanied by the exuviae of the larva, and subfolliculated. 



This elegant insect, which is a native of the Alps and the high mountains of 

 Europe, is said by Donovan, from the vague notice given in the preface to 

 Lepidoptera Britannica, p. 29, to be a native of the isle of Lewes, one of the 

 Hebrides; but from information subsequently obtained from Professor Hooker, 

 it appears that the specimen supposed to have been captured there, was in a 

 box of insects belonging to Lord Seaforth, which had been sent from Norway, 

 where Do. Apollo abounds. 



+ Sp. 2. Mnemosyne. Alls albis, nigro nerro.iis ; primorihns viaciiUs dt'ohi/.i 

 nigris marginalibus. Linne. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 4 — 6 lin.) 



Pa. Mnemosyne. Linne — Turton — Do. Mnemosyne. Sfeph.Caial. 



Similar to the foregoing, but less, and without the ocelli : wings white, with 

 black nervures : the anterior on both surfaces, with the base, dusky ; two 

 black spots in the middle towards the costa ; the hinder margin membrana- 

 ceous, transparent, fuscous, with an obsolete white band composed of spots 

 parallel with the margin : there is also a triangular fuscous spot between the 

 marginal band and the posterior edge of the basal areolet* : the posterior wings 



* The term areolet was used by Mr. Kirby prior to the generally adopted one 

 of cell, or cellule, of Jurine and subsequent writers.— Vide Kirhy and Spencc, 

 . Int. V. iii. p. 625. 



