PIERIS. 19 



Body whitish ; head saffron yellow ; antennae black, annulated 

 with white, with the club greenish white. 

 California Chili. 



3, P. oleracea Ilarr. Ins. Mass. (1842), 214. 



All the wings white ; base of the primaries dusky. 



Under side of primaries yellowish at apex ; nervures darkish. 



Under side of secondaries straw color, with br.oad dusky nerv- 

 ures ; base, deep yellow. 



Body black ; antennae blackish, annulated with white ; ochry at 

 the end of the club. 



Northern States. Expands two inches. 



HARRIS. 



P. casta Kirby. P. cruciferarum Boisd. Spec. Gen. 519. Figured in 

 Kirby Faun. Bor. Amer., IV, pi. 3. 



Antennae black, annulated with white ; wings white ; primaries, 

 at the anterior margin, sprinkled with blackish ; secondaries, under- 

 neath, with a few scattered black scales accompanying the nervures ; 



wings rounded and very entire. 



KIRBY. 



P. menapia Fdder. Wiener Entom. Monatschrift, III, No. 9, 271. 



Wings tender, white ; veins black at the base ; elongate ; con- 

 colored ; costal streak and apical edge bla'ck ; this edge profoundly 

 sinuate within, and divided on the under side with six (in the male 

 five) large white spots. 



Secondaries of the male with a subraarginal streak, flexuous ; 

 blackish above, with black points situated at the extreme of the 

 veins ; below more distinct. 



Secondaries of the female with the same streak, but much more 

 distinct and obscure ; below, the veins widely margined with fus- 

 cous ; the costa, the basal and other spots a little livid ; abdomen 

 above blackish, below whitish. 



Utah. 



FKLDER. 



