EUCHLOE. 185 



SUB-FAMILY III. ANTHOCHARIN/E. 



Antennae with a distinct club, rarely with a gradually-formed 

 one. Palpi projecting beyond the head, with long, stiff hairs 

 in front, but rarely scaly. Terminal joint pointed, generally 

 shorter than the middle joint ; in a few cases rounded. Sub- 

 costal nervure four- or five-branched. Pre-costal nervure al- 

 ways present. 



Schatz calls this group "Chariden," but this is doubtless 

 only an abbreviation oi Anthocharis^ and is the more objection- 

 able because there is a genus CJiaris in the Lemoiiiida. 



This Sub-family is less numerous in species than the typical 

 Pieritice^ and the species are of moderate size, rarely large, 

 and are mostly of a white or yellow colour, with a band at the 

 tip of the fore-wings of an orange, yellow, red, blue, or white 

 colour, more or less edged with black outside, and sometimes 

 inside. It is represented in England by one of our prettiest 

 and most familiar spring Butterflies, the Orange-Tip. 



GENUS EUCHLOE. 



Euchloe^ Pliibner, Verz. bek. Schmelt. p. 94 (1866) ; West- 

 wood, Brit. Butterflies, p. 30(1841); Butler, Cist. Ent. 



i. PP- 39, "^^ (1870)- 

 AnthocJiaris^ pt. Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. p. 555 (1836) ; 



Doubl. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 55 (1847); Schatz, Exot. 



Schmett. ii. p. 70 (1886). 

 Antennse short, with a distinct club. Wings white or yellow, 

 tipped with orange in the male. Sub-costal nervure Ave 

 branched, the two first branches emitted before the end of the 

 cell, the upper radial thrown off a little beyond the cell, the 

 middle disco-cellular nervule well marked. 



Larva pubescent, green, cylindrical, tapering at the ends j 

 pupa boat-shaped. 



