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before which is a transverse series of ocelli of a brownish 

 colour with a silver pupil. The caterpillar is said to be 

 greyish- brown^ with a white line along the back : it is spiny; 

 the heart's-ease and some other plants form its food. The 

 butterfly is small and rare. 



Lepidopteea, Papilionid^. 



COLIAS. 



Geneiic Distinctions. — Antennce short and robust, thickening 

 into an obtuse club ; pal'pi projecting beyond the head ; wings^ 

 primary pair triangular, secondary rounded. 



CoLiAS EDUSA. Cloudecl Yellow Butterfly. The male is 

 pale orange-yellow; the upper wings with a wide black 

 border, waved on the inner edge, and a rounded spot 

 of the same in the middle of each; the hinder wings 

 are also margined with black, the ground-colour is slightly 

 mixed with green, and each has a spot of deep yellow: 

 on the under side, the upper wings are pale tawny, greenish 

 at the extremity, with a central black spot, and a faint 

 series of blackish spots parallel with the outer edge; the 

 under wings are greenish, with a row of rust-coloured 

 spots on the margin. The female has a few yellow spots on 

 the black band of the upper wings ; examples of this sex 



