PIERIS. 17 



Body white ; thorax obscure ; shoulders grayish ; neck ferrugi- 

 nous. Antennae black, annulated with white ; tip of the club 

 greenish. Expands two to three inches. 



Larva violet, with longitudinal bands of citron ; *head, feet, and 

 lower part of the body yellow a little greenish. 



Chrysalis pale, yellowish, shaded with blackish, with a raised 

 point on the back. 



Feeds on Cleome pentaphylla. 



Georgia to Brazil. 



BOISD. 



2. P. protodice Boisd. Boisd. et Lee. 45, pi. 17. 



Male. Primaries white, with a large black trapezoidal spot near 

 the upper edge, and an oblique, macular, black band ; the summit, 

 near the border, has four or five black triangular spots on the 

 nervures. 



The upper side of the secondaries entirely white, sometimes 

 with a small group of blackish atoms near the internal angle. 



The under side of the primaries resembles the upper, but the 

 black markings are paler a little greenish at the summit. 



The under side of the secondaries white, slightly tinted with 

 yellow or greenish, with the nervures more pale or ochry ; a slight 

 blackish spot on the border of the discoidal cellule, besides a mar- 

 ginal impression of dark atoms scarcely distinct frojn the ground 

 color. 



The female has the black of the primaries more intense ; the 

 secondaries are white, tinted with grayish ; exterior edge dark, 

 with five or six white trapezoidal spots. 



Under side washed with greenish brown in the nervures, and a 

 subnmrginal band of the same color. 



Expands two and a half inches. 



United States. 



BOISD. 



P. sisymbrii Boisd. Ann. Soc. ent. 2me s6r. X, 284. 



Upper side white ; primaries with a subcostal spot ; a trans- 

 verse, interrupted ray, and some longitudinal streaks at the end of 

 the nerves, blackish brown ; secondaries without spots. 



Under side of primaries similar to the upper, except the streaks, 

 which are powdered with greenish brown. 



