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THE NICIPPE BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Nicippe. 



PLATE XLV. 



Papilio Nicippe, Cramer, table 210, fig. c. D. Herbat. Nat. 

 Ins. part v. p. 176, pi. 107, fig. 3, 4. Pieris Nicippe, 



Schrank, Say, vol. ii. pi. 30 It is the Colias and 



Pontia of Fdbricius, and Gonepteryx of Leach. 



THE wings are slightly crenate, fulvous, and the 

 terminal margin black brown ; upper pair of wings 

 with a black abbreviated line above the middle, on 

 each pair ; the inferior pair with abbreviated ferru- 

 ginous lines and spots. 



The black terminal margins of the upper wings 

 extend along the costal margin, nearly to the middle ; 

 the black transverse line on this pair of wings is very 

 short, and consists of two curvatures ; this curvilinear 

 line appears also on the inferior surface, which is 

 yellow, very slightly tinged with fulvous on the disk, 

 with a blackish point at each indentation of the edge, 

 and an oval, bright, fulvous spot near the base ; the 

 black terminal margin of the inferior wings has a 

 prominent undulation in the middle ; the inferior 

 surface of this pair of wings is yellow, marked by 

 numerous brownish, or ferruginous, abbreviated, trans- 

 verse lines ; a minute black point in the centre of the 

 wings, and two or three more obvious, irregular, 





