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antennae, and broad densely-scaled wings of a dull ochre- 

 yellow colour, with broad brown borders, large black connected 

 spots on the fore-wings, and several small brown spots in the 

 middle of the hind- wings. The fore-wings are considerably 

 longer than the hind-wings. The under side is dull ochreous- 

 yellow, rather darker towards the hind-margins, especially on 

 the fore-wings, and with some dark spots in the middle of 

 the latter, less connected than on the upper side. The 

 female has brown fore-wings, with the hind-margin forming a 

 rectangle, and a large ochreous-tawny longitudinal irregular 

 band running from the base parallel to the inner margin, and 

 a tawny spot at the end of the cell. The hind-wings are 

 tawny, with brown borders, and black blotches. The under 

 side is brown, lighter on the fore-wings except in the centre, 

 and on the costal area of the hind-wings. 



FAMILY V. PIERID^. 



Egg. "Very tall and slender, tapering toward a much 

 smaller rounded summit, either squarely truncated at the base, 

 or appearing as much or nearly as much so at the summit, so 

 as to render the egg sub-fusiform, provided with a variable 

 number of distinct longitudinal ribs, and crossed by frequent 

 transverse finer raised lines " (Scudder). 



Larva. Smooth or downy, cylindrical, slightly tapering at 

 the ends, not spiny, nor furnished with retractile tentacles. 



Pupa. Angulated, slender, the head more or less pointed ; 

 attached by the tail, and a girth round the body ; sometimes 

 boat-shaped. 



Imago. Of moderate size, rarely much less than two inches 

 in expanse, and still more rarely exceeding three inches; wings 

 rounded, very rarely pointed, sub-dentate or sub-caudate. 



