PIERID.E. 71 



this insect is widely distributed is well known ; it having 

 been found as far Eastward as Northern India, being abun- 

 dant on the Continent of Europe, and having also been 

 found in North Africa. 



47. Colias Electra. W // ? x ~ 



Papilio Electra, Linn,, Syst. Nat., II, p. 764, n. 101. 



Papilio Hyale, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 351, f. E. H. 



Var. $ . Papilio Palaeno, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 340, 



[f. A, B. 



Colias Electra, Godt, Enc. Meth., IX, p. 102, n. 39. 

 Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 637, n. 8. 



App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 588. 



Expands 1 in. 6 lin. 2 in. 5 lin. 



< . Deep chrome-yellow inclining to orange, glossed with a 

 pink lustre in certain lights ; with broad black bands on hind- 

 margins. Fore-wing : base blackish ; an ovate, rather nar- 

 row, black spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; hind-marginal 

 band broadest at apex, irregularly dentate on its internal 

 edge, dusted with pale yellow scales, some of the nervules 

 crossing it being also pale-yellow. Hind-wing : base black- 

 ish, extending along median and submedian nervures ; costa 

 and inner-margin pale yellowish-green ; a large, rounded, 

 deep-orange, disco-cellular spot ; hind-marginal black band 

 narrower than in fore-wing, irregularly dentate on its inner 

 edge, gradually diminishing as far as third median nervule, 

 where it ends ; a clothing of pale-yellow hairs on the dusky 

 portion of wing near base and inner- margin. UNDER-SIDE. 

 Fore-wing : pale ochreous-yellow, almost cream-colour on 

 inner-margin ; costa from base, and broad hind-marginal 

 band, of a lighter or darker greenish-yellow ; disco-cellular 

 spot black and conspicuous ; along inner edge of hind-mar- 

 ginal band, and marking its separation from the yellow 

 ground-colour, is a row of sub-triangular, dusky-blackish 

 spots, commencing on costa (in the hind-marginal band) with 

 some ferruginous-blackish, often half-obsolete spots, but 

 below first median nervule, where the band narrows, marking 

 its internal edge. Hind-wing : wholly of the same greenish- 

 yellow as band of fore-wing : disco-cellular spot bright- 

 silvery, in a ferruginous ring, usually with a smaller, similar, 

 but duller spot touching its upper edge ; near hind-margin, 

 and parallel to it (as if continuous of the transverse row in 

 fore-wing), a row of seven more or less conspicuous, ferru- 

 ginous spots, commencing with a rather larger spot on costa, 

 arid extending to immediately above submedian nervure. 



