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on the tip there are three light yellow spots. The 

 lower wings are here of a sulphur colour j only the 

 exterior edge is brown like the three foremost ten- 

 dons. Feelers, blackish brown, scarcely visible on 

 the inner side, with white dots half way. Back 

 brown, with white hair ; thorax white ; abdomen at 

 the top yellow ; underneath white j feet brown. 



P. Judith, F. is distinguished by the red spotted 

 edge of the lower wings, and by the want of the 

 three yellow spots on the under side of the tip of 

 the upper wings. 



XXII. PONTIA MERCEDIS. 



p. alls albiSj macula antica trianguUsque duplici 

 serie marginis nigrisy posticis suhtus Jiavis, albo 

 ve7iosiSy a?iticeJulvo cincles. 



From Talcaguano in Chili. — Nearly as large 

 as the male of P. Brassica\ The colour of the 

 wings on the upper side is white, and a very strong 

 lustre of mother-of-pearl at the root. A long 

 quadrangular spot extends from the middle of the 

 sector edge of the superior wings, as far as the third 

 of the breadth of the wing. About three lines 

 from the external edge, there is a row of triangular 

 spots, with their points turned to the exterior edge, 

 the corners. of which, at the basis, are hooked. The 

 one nearest to the back edge is only a longish spot. 

 All these spots are in the membranes, between the 

 tendons. From the exterior edge itself, there 

 begin club-formed spots, but which lie on the ten- 



