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PIERIS PHILYRA. 

 PLATE VI. Fig. 3. 



Godart, Boisd. — Pap. Hyparete, Cramer •, PI. 210, fig. A, B, and 

 PI. 339, fig. E, F. 



The figure above referred to represents the under 

 side of the female of this handsome species. The 

 male is of a bluish-white above, surrounded with a 

 black external margin, and having a black patch on 

 the tip of the anterior wings, divided by an arched 

 row of white oval spots; the female nearly black 

 above, the inner half of the wings dull white, the 

 apex with white oval spots : on the under side both 

 sexes are black, with the inner half of all the wings 

 yellow, sprinkled with minute black points; the 

 upper pair having a small white spot at the ex- 

 tremity of the discoidal cell, and a posterior row of 

 yellow oval spots largest towards the anterior mar- 

 gin ; the under pair with seven long wedge-shaped 

 reddish-brown spots behind the middle, becoming 

 somewhat lighter posteriorly, making the hinder 

 part of the wing from the middle of the discoidal 

 cell sometimes appear entirely of that colour, with 

 dilated black nervures and a black border. 



Inhabits Amboina, New Guinea, &c. Pier is 

 Plexaris, described by Godart (Encyc. Meth. p. 151) 

 from a figure in Donovan's Insects of New Holland, 

 is regarded by a recent author as a variety. 



