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SCA.RCE CLOUDED YELLOW BUTTERFLY. 



Colias Europome. 



PLATE VI. Fig. 2. 



Stephen" s'lllus. ii. P]. 1*, Figs. ], 2, and 3. — Eurvmus Euro- 

 pome ; Clouded Sulphur, Swainson's Zool. Illus. 2d ser. 

 No. 15.— Haworth, Lep. Brit. 13. No- 12. 



" Both sexes of this fine insect are of a fine sul- 

 phureous-yellow above ; the male has the hinder mar- 

 gin of both wings deeply edged with black, an ovate 

 spot of that colour on the disk of the anterior, ami 

 an obsolete fulvous spot on that of the posterior ; the 

 border on the latter is irregularly sinuated withiii : 

 beneath the anterior wings are paler, with the tips 

 rather deeper, the discoidal spot is whiter, with a 

 black or dusky iris, and parallel with the hinder mar- 

 gin is a very obsolete row of dusky spots ; the pos- 

 terior wings are of a deeper yellow, minutely irrorated 

 wiih black, with a discoidal silvery ocellus, having a ful- 

 vescent iris, and a secondary silver spot adjacent ; tliey 

 have also an obsolete row of dusky spots parallel with 

 the hinder margin, and forming a continuous series 

 with those of the anterior wings, and a larger some- 

 what triangular fulvescent spot on the upper edge. 

 The female ditTers in having the black border of the 



