PoE Deas. 
PIERIS II. 
PIERIS PALLENE. 8, 9. 
UpperrsipE silky-white, slightly tinted with lilac. Anterior wing with the 
base light yellow, the costal margin lilac, the apex and outer margin black its 
innerside deeply sinuated and dentated. 
Unprersipe. Anterior wing with the base yellow, the costal margin black, 
and a large triangular spot of black near to, but below, the apex. Posterior wing 
with four minute spots half way between the lower end of the cell and the onter 
margin. 
Expan. 15% inch. Hab. Australia. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Nearly allied to P. Aripa of Boisduval. 
PIERIS PADUSA. 10, 11. 
UprrrsipE white, the base of the anterior wing and the outer margin of 
the posterior tinted with yellow. Anterior wing with the costal margin lilac, the 
apex and outer margin black its imnerside deeply sinuated and dentated. 
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the base yellow, the costal margin slightly 
brown, and a square black spot near the apex. 
Expan. 1485 in. Hab. Australia. 
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders. 
PIERIS PARTHIA. 12, 13. 
Upprersipe white. Anterior wing slightly tinted with yellow darkest at the 
base, the costal margin brown, the apex and outer margin black its inner edge 
deeply smuated and dentated. Posterior wing tinted with lilac and yellow. 
Unpersipr with the base yellow, the costal margin and the apex light rutous- 
brown, where black above. Posterior wing rufous-brown, undulated throughout 
by fine transverse lines of white, crossed below the middle by an irregular indis- 
tinct band of darker colour. 
Expan. 13% in. Hab. Australia. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Some examples are without the lower part of the black margin of the anterior wing and 
others have much less colour on the underside of the posterior wing. 
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