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PIER1S BELISAMA. 



PLATE VII. Fig. 1. 



Godart, Boisd. — Pap. Belisama, Cramer, PI. 258, 

 fig. A, B, C, D. 



P. Belisama is another of these handsome and 

 warmly tinted species which abound in Eastern 

 Asia and the adjacent islands. It is generally about 

 a third larger than our common cabbage butterflies, 

 but smaller examples frequently occur ; the male 

 yellowish-white above, with the whole of the outer 

 angle and the costa of the anterior wings black; 

 the limb of the hinder pair of the same colour. 

 Female with the greater portion of the upper wings 

 black, the remainder pale ochreous. Under side of 

 the upper wings black in both sexes, with a group 

 of yellow spots on the apex, and a small transverse 

 whitish streak at the extremity of the discoidal cell ; 

 the same side of the under wings bright yellow, 

 inclining to orange, with a black posterior border 

 dentated on the inner side, and bearing a row of 

 rounded yellow spots ; at the base there is a trans- 

 verse red stripe lying parallel with the margin ; 

 body whitish ; antennse black. 



Occurs plentifully in Java, Amboina, Sumatra, &c. 



