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ANTHOCARIS I. 



ANTHOCARIS OLYMPIA, 1-4. 



Anlhocaris Olympia, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1871. 



Male. — Expands 1.6 inch. 



Upper side pure white, gray at bases of wings ; pi-imaries have at the apex 

 a pale gray sub-triangular patch terminating on either margin in a small spot 

 of darker color ; on the arc a straight black bar, reaching the sub-costal nervure ; 

 costal margin slightly specked with black. 



Secondaries have a few black scales at outer angle, and a small wedge-shaped 

 black spot preceding these scales on costa ; fringes white. 



Under side white ; primaries have a small gray sub-apical spot on costa, nearly 

 covered with green scales, and a faint greenish patch on hind margin partly cov- 

 ering the discoidal interspaces ; dlscal spot narrow, lunate, inclosing a white 

 streak. Secondaries crossed by three bands of yellow-green on a gray ground, 

 the intermediate spaces being white ; the first band, near base, forms the seg- 

 ment of a circle ; the second, just anterior to the middle of the wing, of irreg- 

 ular width, projects a short, truncated branch on sub-median nervure that con- 

 nects with the third band, and ends in a sharp spur a little inside abdominal 

 margin ; the third band, commencing on abdominal margin, is at first broad, 

 and after connecting with the second, narrows to half its previous width, then 

 enlarges greatly and curves towards hind margin, which it strikes in three 

 branches, besides sending a fourth to outer angle ; sometimes this last branch is 

 disconnected and forms a marginal spot ; these bands all marked more or less by 

 small white spots and points. Body black, covered with gray hairs ; beneath 

 greenish white ; palpi white with many gray hairs ; antennae gray above, yel- 

 lowish below ; club brown above, bright yellow below and at tip. 



Female. — Expands 1.7 inch. 



Similar to male ; the apical patch inclosing a single, distinct, white spot ; discal 

 mark broader, sinuous, sending a short spur along sub-costal nervure ; costal 

 edge more irrorated ; under side as in male. 



The specimens of Olympia originally described, and till then the only ones 

 known to me, were taken at Coalburgh, West Va., in April, 1871, by a young 

 collector whom I had enjoined to take " everything that Avas white," and were 



