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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV. 



Family 14.— PIERID^. (35 Genera, 817 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 Sub-regions. 



Nearctic I Pal/Earctic I Etuiopian 



SOB-EEGIONS. SUB-HEGIO.MS. SUB-REGIONS. 



Oriental 

 Sub-regions. 



Australian 



SUB-BEfilONS. 



1.2.3.4 1.2.3.41.2.3.41.2.3.41.2.3.4 1.2.3— 



The PieridaB are distributed almost, if not quite, as widely over 

 the globe as the last family, and we shall group the genera in 

 the same manner. Pieris (130 sp.) is cosmopolitan ; Terias 

 and C'allidfyas are found in all the four tropical regions, and as 

 far north as Pennsylvania in the Nearctic region ; Pontia, 

 Tachyris, Eronia, and Thestias are common to the Ethiopian, 

 Oriental, and Australian regions, the last-named, however, 

 only extending as far as Timor ; Colias is pre-eminently 

 Palsearctic and Nearctic, with a few Ethiopian species, one 

 Indian, two in Chili, and one in the Sandwich Islands ; Antho- 

 cJiaris is wholly Palccarctic and Nearctic ; Midea has two S2"»ecies 

 Nearctic, and one in Japan ; Goncptcryx is Pahearctic and Neo- 

 tropical, extending into Texas ; Idmais and Callosune are 

 Ethiopian and Oriental ; Thyca and Iphias are Oriental and 

 Australian ; Mcganostoma is Nearctic and Neotropical ; Na- 

 tlialis and Kricogonia are Neotropical, ranging into Florida, 

 Texas, and Colorado. 



The peculiar genera are pretty equally distributed. The 

 Neotropical region has ten, two being confined to Chili ; Euterpe 

 and Leptalis are the most remarkable, the latter containing a 

 number of forms mimicking the Heliconidie and Danaidas. The 

 Oriental region has two, Prioncris and Dcrcas ; the Australian 

 one, Elodina ; the Ethiopian two, Teracolus and Pseudopontia ; 

 the Palfearctic two, Lmcoplmda and Zcgris; the Nearctic one, 

 Neophasia. 



