PAPILIO. 



Prgan of tl^e flew Jork f ntomological piub. 



Vol. 1.] April 26, 1881. [No. 4. 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES. 



Chiefly collected by Mr. Morrison in 1880. 

 By W. H. Edwards, Coalburgh, IV. Va. 



1. Anthocharis Morrisoni. 



2. Melitcea Perdiceas. 



3. " Colon. 



4. Pyrgus Philetas. 



5. Copseodes Eunus. 



6. Pamphila Mardon. 



7. " Siris. 

 Anthocharis Morrisoni. 

 Male. Expands 1.5 inch. 



Size of A Ccthiira. Feld. {Cooperi o{ But. N. A. Vol. i) and 

 very close to it on upper side ; color of primaries, white ; of sec- 

 ondaries, white, washed with grayish on part of cell and middle of 

 disk, and faintly beyond to hind margin ; both wings gray at base. 

 Primaries, have costa spotted black, not densely. The spots 

 nearest to base, rather large and well separated ; towards apex, 

 black and white alternate in about equal proportions ; on apical 

 area, a large bright orange patch ; along apex and hind margin to 

 lower side, the patch a series of black confluent crenated spots. 

 The one on upper median nervule, diffused into an irregular patch ; 

 the lower branch of median edged black at extremity ; the mark 

 on arc of cell, black ; straight, narrow and of even width. Secondar- 

 ies have a few black scales at the ends of all nervules, and the fringe 

 there is black, otherwise, white ; fringe of primaries, also black at 

 ends of nervules. 



Under side of primaries, pale yellow-white ; the patch, deep 

 yellow, and beyond it a small pink-tinted space towards apex ; the 

 nervules on apical area green edged, losing the green scales 

 mostly, quite at the margin ; costa marked by black spots at 

 nearly equal distances, about one third the space being black. 



