PIERINAE. THE TRIRE ANTIIOCIIARIDI. 1137 



TRIBE ANTHOCHARIDI. 



ORANGE-TIPS. 



Frujjalia HUbiier. Duponchcl; Picrkli (pars) Stephens. 



Pieriiiae (pars) SwainsoQ; Pieridac (pars) 



I.iu'lit :iiul liivolv thing or sky, 

 Biitl.Tlly : 



FliiU'riiig ('vcr amid flowers, 

 Fell on Ijtuls and dewy showers, 

 (Flower thyself, or leaf with wings 1) 

 Say, what finger rosy-retl 

 TliV rich eolor hrinir's? 

 Wasn't sonic svlph that o'er thee threw 

 E;h-1i hriirht hiie? 



Uiiiscil Ihee from morn's fragrant mist, — 

 Jiadi- llier through thy day exist';' 

 Ah, beneath mytingers pfest, 

 Palpitates thy tiny heart, 

 E'en to death" distrest. 

 • Fly away, poor soul! and be 



Gay and free! 



Thus, no more a worm of earth, 

 I shall one day flutter forth ; 

 And, like thee, a thing of air. 

 Clothed in sweets and honeyed dews, 

 Each sweet flow'ret share ! 



Herder.— To a Butterfly. {Transl.) 



Imago. Prevailing colors white, marked with orange, green and black. Front ex- 

 cessively tumid ; antennae slender, shorter than the abdomen, the club very distinct, 

 short and rather broad, depressed; palpi very slender, half as long again as the eye, 

 ■witli a thin fringe of very long hairs ; apical joint long, basal joint less than half as 

 long as the penultimate. Patagia very small, consisting only of a circular base, pro- 

 duced at the posterior end to a short, blunt, triangular process; third superior sub- 

 costal nervure of fore wing with a long fork ; costal branch of hind wings straight ; 

 androconia broad with parallel or nearly parallel sides, and an angulate, heavily fringed 

 apex ; middle tibiae shorter than the femora. Eighth abdominal segment prolonged 

 above as a laminate expansion ; hook of upper organ of male large; posterior edge of 

 clasps entire and toothless. 



Egg. Tall and slender, tapering somewhat more in the apical than in the basal half, 

 but also below to a considerable extent, both base and summit truncate, the vertical 

 ribs not very numerous, moderately high, sharp and distinct. 



Caterpillar at birth. Appendages of moderate length, about as long as the seg- 

 ments, rod like, equal throughout, expanding slightly at tip to a compressed, cup- 

 shaped club, the whole seated on a rather large papilla. 



Mature caterpillar. Head of the same width as the body. Abdominal segments 

 divided into seven subsections, covered with numerous minute papillae in transverse 

 rows with short hairs, and a few longitudinally and not transversely ranged, far 

 larger papillae with slightly longer, apically expanded bristles. 



Chrysalis. Bent fusiform, tapering very gently toward either extremity, the wing 

 cases protruding beneath to a consideraijle extent; dorsal region a little flattened, often 

 producing a slight, lateral ridge ; prominences of body rounded ; under surface bent in 

 the middle, the tongue and antennae only reaching the bend and stopping far short of 

 the end of the wing cases. 



The species are not numerous but comprise "some of the most elegant 

 and beautiful butterflies known, though not attaining to any great size" 



