204 OKDER I.EP1DOPTERA. 



Pierides. 



PIERLDES (Wkstwood). DANAI (Linnjsus). 

 Colias 7HILODICE (Godart). Clouded-sulphur Buttujly. ( Plate xxxv, figs. 1, 2, 4 & 9.) 



Papilio pal .e no ? ( I,inmvii»K Coi. ias v.\ iuiruMK (Swainson). 



Male : Antennae ferruginous; knob blackish above, ferruginous beneath, tipped with 

 ferrugin >us or rosy color : palpi yellow, clothed with long hairs, greenish at base : 

 eyes brown. Head blackish above ; tips of the hairs often reddish. Trunk and abdo- 

 men blackish above, or rather greenish; beneath, yellow. "Wings yellow, broadly 

 bordered with Mack. Anterior wings above marked with a central diamond- shaped 

 black spot, which is matched by a faint yellowish spot upon the posterior wing : 

 beneath yellow, with a greenish tinge, especially beneath the black border of the 

 forewings. Posterior wings of a deeper tint of sulphur-yellow than the anterior, and 

 marked with two brownish spots each : the first is near the middle of the wins, and 

 coalesces with a smaller spot towards the anterior margin, and both are ornamented 

 in the centre with a spangle of silver; the other, a reddish oblong brown spot, is 

 placed directly midway upon the anterior margin of the wing, pointing to the coa- 

 lescing central spots. Wings filiate : cilia? rosy red. 



Female : The colors of the wings are much like those of the male. The border is rather 

 paler, and shows six spots of the ground-color of the wings, placed two and two : 

 four of the spots are nearer the apical angle. The posterior wings show obsolete]} - the 

 marks placed beneath : the black border is fainter and narrower than in the male. 

 Beneath, the anterior wings scarcely differ from those of the male ; the posterior are 

 paler, and, if any thing, show a faint rosy tint, with three or four small dots. Ex- 

 panse of wing, about two inches. 

 The females differ as to depth of coloring : some are nearly as yellow as the male; in 



others, the yellow is pale and whitish. The caterpillar is described as pubescent, green, 



with yellow lines and black dots. 



Fig. 1, male ; 9, upper side female ; 2, lower side female ; 4, lower side male. 



Postia oleracea ( Harris). Potherb Pontia. 



Kno!. of tin- antenna? tlattened, black, and tipped with ferruginous; setaceous part, white 



beneath ; above black, with the lower margin of the rings white. Head white, with a 



black spot upon the back of it. Thorax and body black, with the ends of many hairs 



and scales white ; the sides of the abdomen are striped with white. Anterior wings 



