PIERIN^. 137 



clothed with short scales ; antennae with a I'ather short club broadening to the tip, 

 compressed and grooved beneath. 



Egg. — "Acorn-shaped, with 12 or 14 prominent I'ibs. Deposited on end." 



Larva. — " Adult. About 1 inch 3 lines, rather slender, with tubercular black 

 spots, each emitting a black hair. Food plant Reseda, N. 0. Resedaceae. Fond of 

 lying at full length along the flower spikes, and several crowded together at the 

 summit in amicable companionship." 



Pdpa. — " Seven and a half lines long, thickest across the thorax and end of 

 wing-cases ; head with a projecting taper-point ; thorax sharply keeled and humped 

 on the back" (Buckler, Brit. Butt. 121 (1886). 



Type. — P. Daplidice. 



PONTIA DAPLIDICE (Plate 521, fig. 1 S, la, b, ? ). 



Papilio BajAidine, Linnifius, Syst. Nat. x. ed. i. p. 4C8 (1768) ; id. xii. ed. i. 2, p. 760 (1767). 



Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. figs. 414, 415. 

 Pontia Daplidice, Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 283 (1807). Curtis, Brit. Entom. pi. 48 (1824). 



Kirby, Allen's Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 152 (1896). 

 Pieris Baplidiee, Godart, Enc. Metb. ix. p. 128 (1819). Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 544 (1836). 



Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 48 (1846). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. G. i. 



p. 75 (1857) ; id. Proe. Zool. See. 1865, p. 489. Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, p. 33. Butler, 



Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 204 (1869). Biencrt, Lep. Ergeb. Reise Persien, p. 26 (1870). 

 Mancipium Daplidice, Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 22 (1827); id. Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. 



p. 5 (1850). 

 Synchloe Daplidice, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 410; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1881, p. 611 ; id. 1882, p. 4. 



Staudinger and Scbatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 61, pi. 4 (1886). Swinboe, Trans. Ent. Soo. 1885, 



p. 342. Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 375; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 204. Leech, Butt, of 



China, ii. p. 458 (1894). 



Imago, — Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the base slightly 

 irrorated with greyish-black scales ; a black large quadrate spot at end of the cell 

 crossed by the slender white discocellular veinlet, an apical black band travei^sed 

 by four white irregular-shaped spots of which the upper and third are largest and 

 each slenderly extending to the outer margin ; in some specimens a faint indication 

 of a lower discal blackish-speckled spot between the lower median and submedian is 

 also present. Eindwing with the markings of the underside visible and of a darker 

 tint than the ground colour ; sometimes with a slightly indicated greyish-black 

 scaled costal spot and submarginal lunules, these scales also occasionally extending 

 along the tip of the veins to the outer margin. Underside. Forewing with the 

 apical white-spotted band less prominent, olivesceut-green, its lower portion slightly 

 irrorated with blackish scales, the cell spot less prominent. Hindiving olivesceut- 

 green, sparsely irrorated with minute black scales ; with a large sub-basal costal 

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