FAMII.V VAril.IONlD.r.. 89 



SUB-FAMILY PIERIN^. Bates. 



GENT'S COLIAS. Fahriciufi. 

 Colias Fallens, fig. 3. 

 Colias Palleus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. ix. p. 52, n. 10 (1800). 



Alae supra flava;, eiliis rufis : anticoo pallida) ; puncto disco-collidari iiiairno 

 iiii^ro ; apice et marginc externo cincreo-fuscis ; maculis subtribus suljapicalilnis 

 (lavis, puncto subniariijinali inter norvidos mcdianos squamoso I'usco ; l)a;o 

 rusc'(>sc(Mit(> ; postica; cincivf) rorata; basi ot striga nobulosa interna nigris ; 

 inarginc apicali fusco, maculas quatuor flavas includente ; macula disco-collulari 

 lulva ; alaj subtus flava?, antica) mavgine interno pallido, apice fulvo, niargine 

 anali nigro tripunctato ; niacida disco-cellulari supcrna; alaj postica; valde 

 cinereo vorata?, macula rufo-fusca costali ; macula disco-cellulari argentea, fusco 

 l)icincta vi puncto pnuposito I'usco : exp. alar. unc. 1, lin. 9. 



Ilakodadi, N. Japan {JFhltely). B.M. 



.Vllieil to C. Hijah', but I think it can liardly be an aberration of that species ; at any rate it is 

 far more distinct from it than half the .si)ecies of the Genus are from C. Edusa. 



GENUS HESPEROCU.VIilS. Felder. 

 Ilesperocharis Fulcuiota,ftfj. i. 



i Ilesperoeliaris Fulvinota, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. |). 284 

 (October, 1871). 



Ala; anticte supra albie, 1)asi miitinie tlavescentes ; costa nigra ; apice, stria 

 obliqua subapicali et margine externo angulis altcrnis decreseente, nigris : 

 pnsticfc lajtissimc flava?, stria subcostali maculisque sex submarginalibus dilfusis 

 t'lilvis, vel pallide am-antiacis: subtus fere velut in U. Rirlanda ; posticte stria 

 iiiaculari submarginali aui-antiaca : exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 10. 



Back of Rio {Sir W. Smith). B.M. 



Allied to //. Ilclvia and Hirlanda, and remarkable' for the angulatcd cliaracter of the outer niai- 

 fjin nf anterior wings. 



