occasionally alight in great numbers on moist 

 places in roads. 



The caterpillar is destitute of the retractile 

 tentacula of the neck, and the chrysalis is of an 

 angulated form, attached to a fixed object by a 

 thread passed around the body, the head being 

 upward. 



PIERIS NICIPPE. 



SPECIFIC - CHARACTER. 



Wings slightly crenate, fulvous ; terminal mar- 

 gin black-brown ; upper pair with a black abbre- 

 viated line before the middle on each page ; infe- 

 rior pair with abbreviated ferruginous lines and 

 spots. 



SYNONYM. 



PAPiiiio NICIPPE. Cramer^ tab. 210, fig. C. D. 

 Herbst. Nalur. Ins. pt. 5, p. 176, pi. 107, 

 fig. 3, 4. 



PLATE XXX. 



