I'APILIONID.E. PIERIN.i;. APPIAS. 



FonaJr. Upperside. Anterior wings creamy-white in the middle, with 

 hroad Idack costal and hind marginal borders ; base bluish-grey. Posterior 

 wings l)lnish-grey, whiter towards the costa, with a very broad black border 

 occupying the outer two-tifths of the wing. 



Underside. As in the male, except that on the anterior wings the pale 

 part is yellow instead of white, the subapical spot being deepest in colour, and 

 the dark band along the outer margin extends down to the hinder angle. On 

 the posterior wings the dark Ijand extends considerably within the cell. 



Hab. Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands (C. M. Woodford). 



In the Collectiuus of Messrs. Godmau and Salvin, Crowley, and H. Grose Smith. 



This species is very near to A. Ada, Cramer, and differs prineipally in the female, that sex 

 of Ada having a very much narrower dark marginal band, the inner edge of which on both wings 

 is more or less dentate, while that of Florentla is more regular ; further, on the anterior wings the 

 dark band of the female Add on the outer margin gradually tapers to the anal angle, the Viand of 

 Flori'nlla being of almost unif<irm width and reaching broadly down to the inner margin, where it 

 extends to a width of one-fourth of the wings. 



In the male of Ada the subapical .spot on the underside of the anterior wings is yellow or 

 orange, while in the male oi Florentia that spot is white, and the greyish black band on the outer 

 margin is much wider, but less dentate on its inner edge than in Ada ; and on the upperside of the 

 jiosterior wings of Florentia (male) the dark marginal border is more suffused, its inner edge 

 beintr less clearlv defined. 



