ANTHOCARIS IL 



ANTHOCARIS SARA. 1—5. 



An/hocaris Sara, BoisJuval, Anu. Ent. Soc. de Fr. 1852. 



Male. Exj:)ands 2 inches. 



Upper side jiure white, blackish at base ; primaries have a large bright orange 

 apical patch, broadly edged at apes of wiug by black and enclosing on hind mar- 

 gin two serrated black spots ; postc^riorly edged by a broad black band which ex- 

 tends from costal edge across the cell, covering the arc, and connects with a waved 

 band of irregular width and less intensity of color that reaches to inner angle; 

 costal margin slightly specked with black ; secondaries usually immaculate, but 

 sometimes marked by small black patches on the ends of the nervules, especially 

 at and near the outer angle; fringe of primaries alternate yellowish and black, of 

 secondaries white, except at tips of nervules where it is black. 



Under side white tinged with yellow on hind margin and apex of primaries ; 

 the orange sj>ot reduced, pale ; apex specked with black ; on the arc a broken 

 black bar. Secon liries have tlie nervures yellow, and the surface covered thinly 

 and iri'egularly with greenish points and patches. 



Body a!)ove covered with gi-ey hairs ; beneath, abdomen yellowish, thorax 

 white; palpi white tipped with grey ; antennte bn^wn above, whitish below; club 

 black, white at tip. 



Female. Same size. 



Upper side color of male ; the orange patch paler and narrower, not bordered 

 with black on inner side, but edged without by a sinuous blackish band or stripe 

 more or less complete, between which and the blackish apical border are serrated 

 white spots, sometimes confluent ; discal mark, a bent bar not extending beyond 

 the arc : under side as in male. 



Variety A, Female. — Upper side pale yellow, marked as in the type. 



California. Found especially in Santa Clara County: rare in vicinity of San 

 Francisco, where it is replaced by A. EeakirtU. According to Mr. Henry Ed- 

 wards, nearly one half of the females are of the yellow variety 



l^See notes on A. Ileakirtil.) 



