PIERLN.U:: ANTHOCIIARIS GENUTIA. 1147 



ANTHOCHARIS GENUTIA— The falcate orange tip. 

 [The falcate orange tip (Scudder); white orange spotted ImttiTlly (May»!ird).] 



Papilio genvtia Fabr., Entom. syst., iii : Jlfi'rfeft yen?/n(( Ili'rr.-Schiicll'., I'loilr. syst. 



193-1!>4 (1739);— Al>li., Draw. ins. Ga. Brit. Lcp.. ii : 16 (1867). 



Mils., vi: 20, ti;;s. 7!K><1 (ca. 18(XI). ' Euchlne. genutia Butl., Cat. Fabr. Lep., 214 



Fieri!) genutia God., Eiiryl. imnii.. i.\ : 118, (IHGD). 



168 (lSli>). Mancipium vorax niidea Hiil)n., Saniiul. 



Libijthen genutia God., Encyel. mcHli., ix, exot. Sehmctt., i, Lep. I, I'ap. ii, Gent, iii, 



suppl., 806 (1819). " Mane. A, vor. b, ligs. 1-4 (l«0li-19). 



Antlivc/iarisgenuti((Boiad.,Spec.^in.hip., Euchloe midea Hiibu., Veiz. sfhiuett., 94 



i : 565 (ISiW) ;— Morr., Syn. Lep. N. .Vmer., 20 (1816). 



(1S62);— Edw., Butt. N. A., ii, Anthoeharis /'(ov's 7^/i^rmi'(n"cr(' God., Encyel. m6th.,ix: 



2, (1878); iii, Anthoeharis 1 (188vS);— French^ 118.167-168(1819). 



Butt. east. U. .S., 118-119 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt! Fi^'ur(•(l also by Glover, 111. N. .\. Lep., pi. 



N. E., 48-49, pi. 8, figs. 66, 66a (1886). 27, fi^'s. 2, ;{ (iiiod.). 



Es regtc sich kein Ilaueb am heissen Tag, 

 Nur leise strich ein weisser Schmetterling; 

 Docb ol) aucb kaum die Luft sein FlUgelschlag 

 Bewegte, sie empfand es und verging. 



Hebbel. 

 Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, 



Drawn after you. 



Shakespeare.— /S'ojjnet. 



Imago (15 : 13, 15). Head covered with a inixture of exceedingly long, dull white 

 and bluish gray or blackish hairs, forming a forward projecting clump, the upper por- 

 tion of which has the larger proportion of dark, and the sides and under surface of 

 white hairs; summit of head nearly nude but coucealed by the forward projecting 

 hairs of the hinder portion and enlivened by a few white scales ; behind f>nd above the 

 eyes a mixture of white and black scales, those in contact with the eye mostly white,, 

 excepting above, where there are but few white scales; a narrow rim of white scales 

 borders the front of the eyes. .•Vntennae whitish, flecked with l)lack scales above, 

 clustered into a broken median line, which oxp.inds upon the club, where it covers the 

 whole upper surface excepting the tip, the white annulations at the tip of each joint, 

 and sometimes a sprinkling of white scales on the outside; the inferior inner surface 

 of the stalk, and the lower surface and tip of the upper surface of the club, are nude 

 and of a greenish yellow color. Palpi covered externally with white scales, with a 

 heavy fringe in front of long, mingled blackisli and whitish hairs, mainly blackish 

 externally and whitish internally. Basal half of tongue pale luteous, beyond luteo- 

 fuscous. 



Thorax l)lack, covered above with long and profuse hoary bluish gray hairs. Legs 

 pale Inteous ; femora covered externally with white scales, and fringed with long, 

 whitish and a few intermingled shorter blackish hairs ; extremities of the tarsal joints 

 dusky greenish, spurs and spines a little dusky; claws dark reddish at tip. 



Wings above dull white, tinged almost imperceptibly with greenish, the markings of 

 the under surface of the hind wings appearing indistinctly upon the upper surface, 

 from the transparency of the wings ; extreme Ijase obscured by a profuse sprinkling of 

 blackish brown scales. Fore wings: the middle of the outer edge of the cell marked 

 by a small, black spot, its edges powdery; entire apex, in male only, orange, limited 

 interiorly by a poAvdery border, which runs from the costal border, just within the tip 

 of the costal nervure, in a straiglit line to the outer border, at the extremity of the 

 middle median nervule; basal two-tifths of costal margin marked witii l)la('kish scales, 

 mainly collected into short, transverse streaks, shorter and more distant apically ; that 

 portion of the costal and outer border of both sexes, which, in the male, is occupied 



