PIERID.E. 71 



this insect is widely distributed is well known ; — it having 

 been found as far Eastward as Northern India, beino^ abun- 

 dant on the Continent of Europe, and having also been 

 found in North Africa. 



47. Colias Electra. 



Papilio Electra, Linn,, Syst. Nat., II, p. 764, n. 101. 



Papilio Hyale, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 63\, f. E. — H. 



Var. ? . — Papilio Palaeno, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 340, 



[f. A, B. 



Colias Electra, Godt, Enc. Meth., IX, p. 102, n. o9. 

 ,, „ Boisd., Sp>. Gen. Lep., I, p. G37, n. 8. 



,, ,, „ App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 588. 



Expands 1 in. 6 lin.^ — 2 in. 5 lin. 



$ . Deep chrome-yellow inclining to orange, glossed with a 

 pink lustre in certain lights ; with broad black hands on hind- 

 margins. Fore-wing : base blackish ; an ovate, rather nar- 

 row, black spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; hind-marginal 

 band broadest at apex, irregularly dentate on its internal 

 edge, dusted with pale yellow scales, some of the nervules 

 crossing it being also pale-yellow. Hind-wing : base black- 

 ish, extending along median and submedian nervures ; costa 

 and inner-margin pale yellowish-green ; a large, rounded, 

 deep-orange, disco-cellular spot ; hind-marginal black band 

 narrozver than in fore-icing, irregularly dentate on its inner 

 edge, gradually diminishing as far as third median nervule, 

 where it ends ; a clothing of pale-yellow hairs on the dusky 

 portion of wing near base and inner-margin. Under-side. 

 — Fore-ioing : pale ochreous-yellow, almost cream-colour on 

 inner-margin ; costa from base, and broad hind-marginal 

 band, of a lighter or darker greenish-yelloiu ; disco-cellular 

 spot black and conspicuous ; along inner edge of hind-mar- 

 ginal band, and marking its separation from the yellow 

 ground-colour, is a row of sub-triangular, dusky-blackish 

 spots, commencing on costa {in the hind-marginal band) with 

 some ferruginous-blackish, often half-obsolete spots, but 

 below first median nervule, where the band narrows, marking 

 its internal edge. Hind-wing : wholly of the same greenish- 

 yellow as band of fore-wing : disco-cellular spot bright- 

 silvery, in a ferruginous ring, usually with a smaller, similar, 

 but duller spot touching its upper edge ; near hind-margin, 

 and parallel to it (as if continuous of the transverse row- in 

 fore-wing), a row of seven more or less conspicuous, ferru- 

 ginous spots, commencing with a rather larger spot on costa, 

 and extending to immediately above submedian nervure. 



