22 Mr. E. Doubleday on some new Diurnal Lepidoptera. 
show the character of the head; and the skeleton of the head is 
in preparation for the Norwich museum, where the teeth and 
skull can be examined by those who may wish to test the above 
description. - 
V.—Descriptions of new or imperfectly described Diurnal Lepi- 
doptera. By Epwarp Dovs iepay, Esq., Assistant in the 
Zoological Department of the British Museum, F.L.S. &c. 
{Continued from vol. xvi. p. 308.] 
Fam. PIERID. 
Genus Pieris. 
Pi. Habra. Pi. alis omnibus supra albis, anticis costa ad basin, ma- 
cula discoidali, alteraque marginis externi, magnaque apicis in qua 
maculz tres albe, nigris, posticis supra nervulis juxta marginem 
tenue nigris, subtus pallidis, fuscescenti, flavo, alboque variis, vitta 
ad basin miiniacea. Expans. alar. 2 unc. 7 lin. vel 66 millim. 
Hab. Honduras. 
Anterior wings pure white, the costa at the base black, irro- 
rated with white, the apex broadly and triangularly black, the 
outer margin marked below the middle with a rounded black 
spot united to the black of the apex, the disco-cellular nervule 
marked with a dot of the same colour. Posterior wings pure 
white, the nervules at their extremities slightly black. Below, the 
anterior wings are marked nearly as above, but the apical mark- 
ings are very pale brown, and the light spots are of a pale yellow 
instead of white ; the base is shaded with fuscous along the costal, 
subcostal and median nervures. Posterior wings below very pale 
brown, slightly pearly, the nervures and nervules, a series of lines 
along the cellular folds, two lines in the cell, a large spot about 
the middle of the anterior margin, and the outer margin broadl 
pale fuscescent ; four bright yellow vittze extend from the base 
along the cellular folds for about two-thirds of their length, of 
which one is above the subcostal nervure, the others between the 
cell and the abdominal margin ; between the median nervules 
are two spots of the same colour and opposite to the disco-cellu- 
lar nervule is a third; the black outer margin is marked with a 
series of white spots, slightly tinted with yellow; the costa is 
miniaceous at the base. 
Head black with a few white hairs on the vertex ; palpi black 
above, varied with white below ; antennz black, the apex white. 
Thorax clothed with long gray hairs. Legs white, with a black 
line on each side of the femora and tibiz. 
Abdomen white. 
