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PONTIA DAPLIDICE. 



Green chequered white, or Bath white, Butterfly. 



Order Lcpidoptera. Fam. Papilionidae Lat.^ Leach. 



Type of the Genus Papilio Daplidice Linn. 



PoNTiA Fab., Leach. Pieris Schrank., Lat. Papilio Linn., Fab., Haw. 

 AntenncE composed of about 30 joints, with an abrupt, obconic, 

 compressed club of 7 or 8 joints (f. 1 . shows part of the antenna.) 

 Ldbrnm attached to the clypeus. (2. a.) 



Mandibles attached to the clypeus, remote, parallel, ciliated. 

 (2. b.) 



Maxilla; long and spiral (3.) : with a small palpus of two joints 

 near the base. 



Labium triangular, elongated (.5.) : Palpi porrected obliquely, 

 3-jointed, covered with scales, the two first with long hairs also 

 (4.) : first joint long, recurved from the base, cylindric, second 

 conical, as long or longer than the first, the third slender, linear, 

 much shorter than the second in P. Cardamines and Daplidice 

 (4. a.), and longer than the second in the other species. 



Wings not very narrow or much elongated, posterior ones with a groove 

 on the abdominal margin to receive the abdomen. Feet alike in both 

 sexes. Tarsi 5 -jointed, first joint very long. Claws unidentate or 

 bifid. 



Larvae elongate, cylindric, downy, sometimes tuberculated. 



Pupae elongate, angular, beaked, attached by the tail, girted round 

 the middle. 



Daplidice Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 760. 81. Fab. Ent. Syst. t. 3. pars I, 

 p. 191. w. 593. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. \0. n. II. 

 Male nearly white. Superior wings above blackish at the apex, 

 interrupted by large white spots, a blackish spot near the centre 

 tovvarfis the costa, with the transverse nerve passing througli it 

 whitish : posterior wings variegated with griseous : superior 

 wings beneath with the same spots, and a small one near the 

 posterior angle green speckled with black: inferior wings be- 

 neath green speckled with black, luiving a row of white spots on 

 the margin, an interrupted fascia parallel to the margin, and 

 three other white spots towards the base. Abdomen black with 

 griseous hairs. Female larger than the male, with an additional 

 blackish spot near the posterior angle of the superior wings, a 

 blackish margin with white spots, and a large black sj)ot u])on 

 the inferior wings ; beneath similar to the male. 



In the Cabinet of Mr. Stephens. 



The Genus Pofitia contains five British species, wliicii, with 

 the exception of the one fi<fin*ed, are amongst the most com- 



