L I C I N I A Amphione. 



Generic Character. — See PI. 15. 



Specific Character. 



L. alls integris, siipr(i nigris ; anticarum basi maculo aurantiaco, trira- 

 diato, medio fascid jftavd, apice maculo Jiavo ornatis ; posticis strigd 

 aurantiacd, margine ferrugineo ; antennarum clavis albis. 



Wings entire, above black ; anterior with a three rayed orange spot 

 at the base, and a central bend and terminal spot of yellow ; 

 posterior with an orange stripe and brownish margin ; chib of 

 the antennae white. 



Papilio Amphione. Cramer, pi. 232./. EF. 



Pieris Amphione. Godart in Encij. Meth. vol. 9. p. 165, (Female.) 



1 HIS is the only species among those I have united under the 

 genus Licinia, which has any shade of red mixed in the co- 

 louring, all the others being variegated only with white, yellow, 

 and black. It is a native of Brazil, and Godart mentions of 

 Guyana and the Antilles : though not common, it is some- 

 times frequent in local situations, preferring the borders of 

 deep forests, and flying very slowly. I had the means of fully 

 ascertaining the two sexes, of which the two upper figures 

 are of the male, and the lower one the female. There can be no 

 doubt the latter is the Pieris Amphione, so admirably described 

 by M. Godart, who, however, makes no mention of the black 

 marginal spots on the under side of the posterior wings, re- 

 presented in Cramer's figure, which may therefore be a variety. 

 More difficulty, however, exists in ascertaining if the male is 

 distinct from P. Laia, of Godart: the figures of Cramer, in 

 general, are so inaccurate, as always to excite a doubt in cases 

 of nice discrimination; Godart's description, nevertheless, 

 perfectly agrees with Cramer's figure : if it was, therefore, 

 drawn up from the insect itself, there can be little doubt 

 that Lain is distinct from Amphione; if, on the other hand, 

 M. Godart made his description only from Cramer's figure, 

 the question remains in its original uncertainty. 



The club of the antennas is white, tipt with pale brown. 

 The under side of the female very closely resembles the upper, 

 excepting that the black stripe on the lower wings is broken; 



PI. 91. 



