14 PALE CLOUDED YELLOW. 



colour is sulphur yellow, -with a black central spot, and an irregular 

 broad band, edged with light pink on the outside margin, in which is 

 an interrupted series of spots of the same hue as the ground-colour of 

 the wings. The hind wings have a light orange-coloured central spot, 

 and the margin at the corner is partially and irregularly bordered with 

 black, edged with light pink. 



In the female the ground-colour inclines more to very light cream- 

 colour: underneath, the fore wings are pale yellow, the outside corner 

 orange yellow; a row of blackish transverse marks runs parallel to, 

 but at some distance from, the outside margin. The central spot is 

 black, yellow in the centre. The hind wings are orange yellow, with 

 a large silvery spot, accompanied by a small eye-like dot, surrounded 

 with reddish. There is a row of small blackish spots between these 

 and the hind corner, round the edge of the wing. 



The caterpillar is of a velvet green colour, with two stripes of 

 yellow on the sides, and black dots on the segments. 



The chrysalis is green, with a yellow line on the sides. 



Varieties of this insect have occurred: one is described as of a 

 whitish colour; another with the rich sulphur band that divides the 

 broad black margin at the outside corner of the fore wings, uninter- 

 rupted, and the central spot of intense blackness; the hinds wings more 

 than ordinarily rounded at the margins, very faintly marked with 

 black, and the central spot or spots scarcely discernible : the size of 

 the insect smaller than usual, and its whole contour different. Another 

 was seen which, as well as could be observed, was of a very rich 

 sulphur-colour, and the outside corner margins, and central spot of a 

 rather deep red. 



The figure of the female is taken from a specimen in my own 

 cabinet. 



