PAPILIONID.E. PIERIN.T:. PINACOPTERYX. 



riih(ri)ptirii.r NiijropiDictalii, Miss E. Sliarpe, " Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History," ser. 0, vol. 5, p. 330 (IS'.)O). 



Exp. 2 inches. 



Male. Upperside very faintly greenish white, with black veins. Anterior 

 wings with the base and costa black, irrorated with liluish grey, which extends 

 as far as the subcostal nervure until ])eyond the end of the cell, where the 

 lower half of the subcostal area is white to about two-thirds of the length of 

 the costa, beyond which the apex is blackish as far as the third subcostal 

 nervule. The rest of the nervules are tipped witli black, the lowest median 

 very slightly, and the submcdian nervure hardly at all. I'osterior wings with 

 the base irrorated with grey, and all the nervures more or less tipped with 

 black. 



Underside glaucous white, with all the nervures, except the submedian 

 on the anterior wings, and the costal nervure on the posterior wings, slightly 

 tipped with Idack ; a small spot in the middle of the second discocellular 

 nervule on all the wings. Anterior wings with a blackish spot above and another 

 below the third subcostal nervure near its origin, aiul a very large black 

 spot covering the whole space between the two upper median nervules at 

 al)Out half their length. Posterior wings with a small grey spot towards the 

 base al)Ove the subcostal nervure, a blackish s\mt al)Ove and another Ijelow the 

 subcostal just beyond the termination of the costal ; and an irregular curving 

 row of three or four rather indistinct greyish spots on the disk. 



Female. Upperside yellowish white, rather thickly dusted with grey, 

 especially towards the base and costa, the second discocellular nervule with a 

 small blackish spot in the middle on all the wings. 



Anterior wings with the apex and hind margin rather broadly blackish 

 brown, which colour extends inwards along the nervures to a row of irregular 

 dark spots, the first not separated from the subapical dark markings, the second 

 small, the third very large, and extending beyond the two upper median nervules 

 in both directions, the fourth nearly isolated, and extending from below the 

 lowest median nervule nearly to the inner margin. Posterior wings with a row 

 of almost confluent marginal spots on all the nervures, which latter are marked 

 at their extremities with black dots ; and a curved row of smaller spots, partly 

 connected by grey dusting, at about three-fourtlis of the length of the wing, 

 but not extending to the inner margin. 



Underside. Anterior wind's white, vellowish along the costa and on the 

 upper part of the hind margin ; a black dot on the middle of the second disco- 



