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PIERIDjE. 



The European species belong to a very natural section, divisible into two groups, distinguished at once by the 

 different colouring of the upper surface in the males. In one group, of which our Anthocharis Cardamincs is the 

 type, the apex of the anterior wings is marked in the males with a large orange spot ; and these species have the 

 wines more rounded than those in which the spot is wanting. This group is represented in N. America by 

 Anthocharis Genutia, though it does not exactly coincide in structure with them. The other group, common to the 

 southern parts of Europe, and Northern Africa especially the mountainous districts, which wants the apical orange spot, 

 has, like the former, the under surface of the posterior wings varied with green and white, but the white mostly has a 

 pearly or silvery hue. One species of this section occurs in the Rocky Mountains. These all have the subcostal 

 nervure five-branched, two nervules being thrown off before the end of the cell. 



One species placed in this genus is found in Chili, but differs so much from the others, that I doubt whether it would 

 not be better to found a separate genus upon it ; but, as I have only had an opportunity of examining a single specimen, 

 I have hesitated to do so. It has the subcostal nervure of the anterior wings five-branched, and has a short upper disco- 

 cellular nervule, in this respect resembling the genus Hebomoia. 



The remaining species of the genus belong to the warmer parts of Asia and Africa, being most numerous apparently 

 on the confines of the Red Sea, They are delicate insects of great beauty, always of a white or pale yellow colour, 

 with more or less of black at the apex of the wing, where the males, and mostly the females also, are marked with a 

 spot of some beautiful shade of orange, red, or crimson, and in one species of an opalescent violet. The females some- 

 times are clouded with dusky markings. The subcostal nervule is four-branched. 



ANTHOCHAKIS Boisd. 



Section 1. Palpi with last joint cylindric, more than one third 



the length of seeond '< Anterior Wings with a .short upper 

 disco-cellular nervule ; the subcostal nervure five-branched. 



EROESSA. 



1. A.nth. chilensis Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. 566. n. 11. (183ii). 



Pi. Ch. Gueriu, Voy. de la Coqui/le, Ins. t. 15. 

 f. 1. (1826). 

 Chili. 



Section II. Palpi with tin- second joint nearly cylindric ,■ the third 

 joint acicular, not more than one third the length of the second. 

 Upper disco-cellular nervule of Anterior Winy wanting. 



ANTHOCHARIS. 



t Subcostal in min of Anterior Wings termination infive nervules. 



2. Anth. Taqis Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. 560. n. 4. (1836;. 



P. Ta Halm. Europ. Schmett. Pap. f. 565, 566. 



(1806-27). 

 P. Belemida Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. Pap. f. 929, 



930. (1806-27). 

 Pi. Bellezina Boisd. Tnd. Moth. 1st eel. 9. 



(1829). 

 Spain, S. France. B. M. 



3. Anth. Belemia Boisd. Sp. Gen. 1. 557. n. 1. (1836). 



P. Bel. Esper. Schmett. t. 90. cont. 65. f. 1. 



(1777-1805). 

 P. Bel. lluhn. Europ. Schmett. Pap. f.412, 413. 



(1806-27). 

 Synchloe Bel. Hiibn. I'erz. bek. Schmett. 94. 



(1816). 

 Pi. Bel. Godt. Enc.M. ix. 127. n. 26. (1819)- 

 Var. P. Glauce. Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. Pap. f. 



546, 547. (1806-27). 



Synchloe Gl. Hiibn. Vers. bek. Schmett. [)l. 



(181(1). 

 Pi. Gl. Godt. Enc. 31. ix. 127. n. 27. (1819). 

 Anth. Gl. Boisd. Sp. Gen. 1. 558. n. 2. (1836). 

 S. Europe, N. Africa. B. M. 



4. Anth. Belia Boisd. Sp. Gen. 1. 559- n. 3. (1836). 



P. Bel Cram. t. 397. f. A. B. (1782). 



Fab. Ent. Syst. 111. i. 206. 11. 645. (1793). 

 Hiibn. Euro,,. Schmett. Pap. f. 417, 418. 

 (1806 27). 

 Euchlce Bel. Hiibn. Vers. bek. Schmett. 94. 



(1816). 

 Pi. Bel. Godt Enc. M. ix. 126. n. 24. (1819). 

 Var. P. Ausonia Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. Pap. f. 



682, 683. ( 1806-27). 

 Euchloe Aus. Hiibn. Verss. bile. Schmett. Qi. 



(1816). 

 Pi. Aus. Godt. Enc. M. ix. 127. n. 25. (1819). 

 Anth. Aus. Boisd. Sp. Gen. 1. 561. n. 5. (1836). 

 S. France, Spain, Asia Minor, N. Africa. B. M. 



5. Anth. Simplonia Boisd. Sp. Gen. 1. 562. n. 6. 



Pi. Simplonia Boisd. Icon. Hist. t. 5. f. 3, 4. 



(1833). 

 P. Ausonia Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. Pap. f. 582, 



58 :. (1806-27). 

 P. Marchandae Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. Pap. 936, 



937. (1806-27). 

 Anth. Belie var ? 

 Alps. Pyrenees. li. M. 



6. Anth. CniirsA E. Doubleday, List of hep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 



App. (1847). 

 Doubleduy S[ Hewitson t. 7. f. 1 I IS 17). 

 Rocky Mountains, North America. 



