THE PIERIDS 



caped her vocabulary until she made the acquaint- 

 ance of this orange-tip. Never was a more 

 charming definition than these graceful front 

 wings with their brilliant curved tips. It seems 

 to be the female of this species, as with the birds, 

 that has the aesthetic taste to choose glowing col- 

 ors in the raiment of her spouse ; while he, " not 

 noticing dress," is content that her white wings 

 shall lack the orange-tips which make his beauti- 

 ful. On the lower side of her wings as well as his 

 is an intricate pattern wrought out in greenish 

 yellow-brown and white. The species is found 

 throughout the southeast United States not in- 

 cluding Florida. It has been taken as far north 

 as New Haven, Conn. 



The Olympia Oranoe-tip 



Synchloe olympia (Syn'cblo-e o-lym'pi-a) 



Fig. 29; Plate XIII, Fig. 7, 8 



In this species the orange patch is wanting in both sexes. 

 There is a conspicuous black bar at the end of cell R + M 

 of the fore wings, and the apical portion of these wings is gray, 

 including a large irregular white band (Fig. 29). 



Caterpillar. — Striped lengthwise with pale slate color and 

 bright yellow ; feet, legs, and head grayish green. 



Food-plants. — Hedge-mustard and other Cruciferse. 



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