COLIAS I 



COLIAS NASTES, 1—4. 



CoHas Naslcs, BoiscUival, leones, pi. 8, 183-.'. Ibiil., Spec. Gen. I. p. 648, 18.36. Herrk-k-Scliaffer, Schniett. 

 pi. 7. f. 41. 42. ami 8.5, f. 403, 404, 1843. Moschlor, Wien. Ent. Moiiat. iv, p. 3-54, pi. 9, 1860. 



IVLiXE. — Expands 1.5 inch. 



Upper side greenisli-A^ellow or greonish-white, usually much and uniformly ir- 

 rorated with gra^'-brown over entire surface ; sometimes but little however on the 

 disks, though densely on the hind margins, in which case there is formed thereby 

 a broad marginal border ; both wings have a sub-marginal series of oval spots, 

 the color of the ground, not very well defined, being more or less dusted with 

 brown ; those of secondaries often incomplete, and some of them, especially next 

 inner angle, often lost in tlie prevailing brown shade ; discal spot of primaries 

 small, black, of secondaries small, pale yellow, often indistinct ; costal edges and 

 fringes roseate. Under side of primaries either greenish-yellow or white, the 

 apical region washed with yellow, and surface more or less densely dusted with 

 gray-brown ; the discal spot black inclosing either a pure white space, on which 

 are a few roseate scales, or the space is of the ground color, without roseate ; 

 beyond the disk a transverse row of brown points, obsolete except two or three 

 next inner margin ; secondaries dark green, or often greeni.sh-yellow, the hind 

 margin paler, and the whole siu'face densely covered with brown scales ; discal 

 spot white with a few roseate scales, and a dull red narrow border, a spur of 

 same red often projecting posteriorly ; or sometimes there is a roseate point 

 outside the di.scal spot in direction of outer angle ; a small red patch at base of 

 wiiiu;. 



Body gray above, thorax grayish-green beneath, the collar dull red ; abdomen 

 yellow ; legs roseate ; palpi greenish-yellow, with interspersed red hairs ; antennje 

 brown above, yellow beneath ; club yellow at tip and beneath. 



Female. — Expands 1.6 inch. 



Upper side greenish-white, dusted as in the male, with wide, brown, marginal 

 borders ; the oval spots as in male, but well defined on both wings ; under- 

 side of primaries densely covered with gray-brown, the ground being scarcely 

 visible except along inner margin ; apex slightly yellow ; secondaries of nearly 

 one uniform shade of brownish-green, a little pale along hind margin ; discal 

 spots on both surfaces as in the male. 



