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lateral line yellow ; it has also two dorsal lines, formed of alternately white and red 

 points ; the head is black, and the spines, with which the body is armed, are of the preva- 

 lent colour of the surface. It feeds upon the Gnaphalum obtusifolium. The chnsalis is 

 rather yellow, with black spots, and is assumed towards the end of April or beginning of 

 May. The butterfly appears at the end of about ten days. It continues breeding during 

 the summer, and is very commonly seen sucking up moisture from damp places near 

 houses. The caterpillar folds and spins the leaves together, in the same manner as the 

 English Painted lady, CjTithia Cardui. 



PIERIS (THESTIAS) PYRENE? 



Plate v. fig. -2. 



Order : Lepkloptera. Section : Diurna. Family : Papilionidae, Leach. 



Genus. P lERisi, Schi-ank,Latr.et God. Poiitia, p. Oclisenh. Horsfield. Papilio (DanaiCandidi), iJHn. J5;-Hny. 

 Thestias, Boisduv. Teracolus, Sicahis. 



PiERis (Thestias) Pyrene. " Alis flavis primorlbus apice (medio fulvo) nigris, subtus nebuloso maculatis. 

 Habitat in Cbiua." Lin. loc. cit. infra. (Expans. Alar. 2 une. 9 !in.) 



Syn. Papilio (Dan. Candid.) Pyrene, Li?m. Si/st. Nat. 2. 762. 86 ? Latr. et God. Enc. MHh. ix. 120. 

 P. Evippe, Lin. var. teste. Dmry, App. vol. 2. 

 Pap. (Dan. Cand.)Sesia, Fab. Ent. Syst. 111. 1.203. 636. 

 Thestias Pirene, Boisd. Hist. Nat. Lep. \. p. 393. No. 3. 



Habitat : China (Bruri/). Asia {Linn.). 



Upper Side. The anterior wings near the base are of a brimstone colour ; the tips and external edges 

 being of a dark brown, nearly black, surrounding a large patch of a fine orange. Tlie posterior are of 

 brimstone colour, with a border round their edges of dark brown. The male has not this border. 



Under Side. Black ; all the wings brimstone, without any marks, spots, or clouds whatever in the 

 female, the male having its under side of a brighter yellow, with several reddish-brown spots on the inferior 

 wings. 



There is the greatest confusion respecting the specific names of this, and several 

 nearly allied species, which would be very difficult to unravel. Drury considered this 

 insect as a variety of Evippe, whilst Fabricius, Latrielle, and Godart, give it as identical with 

 the Linntean Pyrene, which opinion I have adopted, although I am by no means certain as 

 to the identity of the species ; the imder side of the wings offering no trace of the central dis- 

 coidal black spot existing in that species. M. Boisduval has not diminished the confusion, 

 in his work just published, by giving a species from Guinea, under the name of Evippe 

 (which Linnjeus states is fi-om China), with the erroneous observation, " II est probable 

 que les anciens auteurs auront confondu sous le nom d'Evippe trois ou quatre especes 

 Africaines."—Hist. Nat. Ltpid. 1. p. 574. 



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