PIERIDH—PIERIS. 
PIERIS ARUNA. 20, 21, 22. 
& Pieris Aruna, Boisd. 
eras Bac ate! Faune de V Ocean Pacific. 
Uprersipe. Male bright orange. Anterior wing, with the costal margin, the 
apex (broadly), the outer margin to the anal angle nearly, and the nervures where 
they touch it, black. Posterior wing, with the outer margin and the nervures as they 
approach it, black. 
Unpersive black. Anterior wing with an indistinct spot of white at the end of 
the cell. Irrorated with white near the inner margin. Posterior wing purple-black, 
the base yellow. A small spot near the base, and a large one towards the middle, 
scarlet. 
Female black. The base of the wings (on the posterior wing, nearly to the 
middle) light yellow. Anterior wing with a quadrate white spot chiefly within the 
cell. Underside with the anterior wing as above, except that the base is black, and 
there is a transverse band of very indistinct white spots beyond the middle. Posterior 
wing as in the male, except that the large central spot is yellow. 
Expan. 3,9 in. Hab. New Guinea. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and A. R. Wallace. 
The very beautiful examples from which the figures in the Plate are copied, have been kindly lent 
me from the Collection of Mr. Wallace. 
