204 OROEB LEPIOOPTERA. 



Pier ides. 



PIERIDES (Westwood). DANAI ( Linnjecs). 



CoLiAs PHiLODicE (Godart). Clcudcd-sulfhur Buttajty. ( Plate xxxv, figs. 1, 2, 4 & 9.) 



Papilio pal^noI (Linnwus). Colias europome (Swainson). 



Male : Antennce ferrnginons ; knob blackish above, ferruginous lenealh, tiprcd with 

 ferruginous or rosy color : palpi yellow, clothed with king hairs, greenish at fcafe : 

 eyes brown. Head blackish above ; tips of the hairs often reddish. Trunk and abdo- 

 men blacki.h above, or rather greenish ; beniath, jelhjw. Wings yellow, broadly 

 bordered with black. Anterior wings above marked with a central diamond shaped 

 black spot, which is matched by a faint yellowish spot upon the posterior wing : 

 beneath yellow, with a greenish tinge, especially beneath the black border of the 

 forewings. Posterior wings of a deeper tinfof sulphur-yellow than the anterior, and 

 marked with two brownish spots each : the tirst is near the middle of the wing, and 

 coalesces with a smaller spot towards the anterior margin, and both are ornamented 

 in the centre with a spangle of silver ; the other, a reddish oblong brown spot, is 

 placed directly midway upon the anterior margin of the wing, pointing to the coa- 

 lescing central spots. Wings ciliate : cilise rosy red. 



Female : The colors of the wings are much like those of the male. The border is rather 

 paler, and shows six spots of the ground-color of the wings, placed two and two : 

 four of the spots are nearer the apical angle. The posterior wings show obsoletely the 

 marks placed beneath : the black border is fainter and narrower than in the male. 

 Baneath, the anterior wings scarcely differ from those of the male ; the posterior are 

 paler, and, if any thing, show a faint rosy tint, with three or four small dots. Ex- 

 panse of wing, about two inches. 

 The females differ as to depth of coloring : some are nearly as yellow as the male ; in 



others, the yellow is pale and whitish. The caterpillar is described as pubescent, green, 



with yellow lines and black dots. 



Fig. 1, male ; 9, upper side female ; 2, lower side female ; 4, lower side male. 



PoNTiA OLEBACEA ( Harris). Potherb Pontia. 



Knob of the antennae flattened, black, and tipped wilh ferruginous ; setaceous part, white 



beneath ; above black, with the lower margin of the rings white. Head white, with a 



black spot upon the back of it. Thorax and body black, wilh the ends of many hairs 



and scales white : the sides of the abdomen are striped with white. Anterior wings 



