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SCARCE CLOUDED YELLOW BUTTERFLY. 



Colias Europome. 

 PLATE VI. FIG. 2. 



Stephen's Illus. ii. PI. 1*, Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Eurymus Euro, 

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

 No. Ib.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, and 

 an obsolete fulvous spot on that of the posterior ; the 

 border on the latter is irregularly sinuated within : 

 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 

 with black, with a discoidal silvery ocellus, having aful- 

 vescent iris, and a secondary silver spot adjacent ; they 

 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 differs in having the black border of the 



