TRANSACTIONS 



OP THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



For the Year 1915. 



1. New Species and Subspecies of Pierinae, By F. A. 

 DixEY, MA., M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Wadham 

 College, Oxford. 



[Read May 6th, 1914.] 



Plates I, II. 



The following forms, some of which appear to be of specific 

 and others of subspecific rank, have been presented at 

 various times to the Hope Collection at Oxford. The 

 types in every case are in the Hope Collection. 



1. Teracolus rogersi, sp. n. (Plate I, figs. 1-4.) 



(J. Exp. al. 35 mm. Upperside creamy white ; fore-wings with 

 a deep orange apical patch, separated from the rest of the wmg 

 by a nearly straight narrow dark band with blurred edges; this 

 band leaves the costa at a point just opposite the outer termination 

 of the cell, and reaches the hind margin at the termination of the 

 first branch of the median vein. Costa and hind margin with a black 

 border, broadened from the termination of the third subcostal to that 

 of the first median vein, elsewhere narrow. The veins within the 

 apical orange patch are black, and the dark broadened border is 

 prolonged inwardly upon them for a short distance. There is a 

 minute black spot at the apes of the re -entrant angle at the outer 

 end of the cell, and a small black patch at the base of the wing, 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1915.— PART I. (mAY) B 



