ANTHOCHARIS II. 



ANTHOCHARIS ROSA, 1-4. 



Anthocharis Rosa, Edwards, Papilio, II, p. 45. 1882. 



Male. — Expands 1.2 inch. 



Upper side of both wings pure white, the bases pale black ; costal margin of 

 primaries sometimes immaculate, sometimes much streaked with black ; near 

 apex a short straight black bar, turned back obliquely, another bar at the end of 

 upper median nervule ; the apical area between these almost immaculate, a few 

 scattered black scales only lying near costa ; on the arc a narrow black bar, bent 

 or a little sinuous. 



Secondaries of thinner texture, discovering the markings of under side ; 

 fringes black at the ends of the two sub-costal nervules, otherwise white, as also 

 on primaries. 



Under side white, with a pink tint over costa of primaries and all of second- 

 aries anterior to the sub-costal nervure, deepest next base ; the bar on costa 

 repeated, much reduced, the black scales largely replaced by yellow ; the bar on 

 hind margin suppressed, but indicated by a patch of yellow; the upper sub-cos- 

 tal nervules yellow, and at the end of each a black streak running with the edge 

 of costa ; the discal bar much reduced, paler, and cut by the yellow arc. 



Secondaries have three cross bands of luteous-yellow, densely covered with 

 black scales, with some open spaces or patches showing clearly the yellow 

 ground ; the anterior band narrow, making a circle about base not always com- 

 plete ; the second, or discal, sends a short stout branch along median to the 

 third, and is attenuated on inner margin ; the third has a triple fork on hind 

 margin, is very narrow in middle, and broad on inner margin ; at outer angle a 

 wedge-shaped bar ; the nervures and branches on middle of the wing yellow. 



Body covered with long light-gray hairs, the abdomen gray-white, beneath, the 

 thorax with white hairs, at the sides yellow, abdomen white, faintly tinted yel- 

 low ; legs pinkish, the femora clothed with long white hairs ; palpi white, with 



