ANTHOCHARIS I. 



ANTHOCHARIS LANCEOLATA, 1-4. 



AnthocharU Lanceolata, Boisduval, Annates tie !a Soc. Ent. de France, 2me Sen, X. p. 284, 1852; Mead, 

 Psyche, II. p. 183, 1878. Edwardsii, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, II. p. 304, 1869. 



Male. — Expands 1.4 to 1.8 inch. 



Upper side white, the apical and upper marginal nervules of primaries edged 

 with brown scales; on the arc of cell a sub-oval or crescent black spot ; the bases 

 of wings dusted blacli ; fringes white, on primari^ brown at ends of nervules. 



Under side white, the apical area finely streaked across the interspaces witli 

 brown ; the discal spot crescent. Secondaries streaked over whole surface with 

 graj'-brown, green-tinted, most densely on costal area, lightly over the outer third 

 of wing ; near outer angle an oblique pure white band from costal edge to cell. 



Body covered with gray hairs beneath, the thorax white, abdomen yellowish ; 

 palpi white, the front hairs brown at end ; antennae whitish, club gray-black, yel- 

 low at tip. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Expands 1.7 to 1.9 inch. 



Similar to the male ; the nervules more widely edged brown, forming long ser- 

 rations from the margin ; across the sub-costal interspaces a loose band of same 

 color. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



Mature Larva. — " Length 1.25 inch ; body rather elongated, tapering some- 

 what posteriorly from the sixth segment; upper side apple-green, shading off 

 laterally into pale blue, which is bounded by a distinct bright yellow line just 

 above the spiracles ; next this line is a slightly broader one of pure white ; 

 under side and legs apple-green, the former bluish along middle ; each segment 

 is covered with fine black points arranged in transverse rows" (that is, on the 

 cross ridges of the segments) ; " on each also are six minute black tubercles, 

 each with fine black bristle, arranged in triangle ; head rounded, pale green, 



