COLIADZE. 287 



Family COLIADM. Coliadans. 



CLXXVII. Genus COLIAS. Fab. 



(402) 1. Colias Edusa. (Fabricius.) Edusa Collas. 



Colias Edusa.- Fab. Sijst. Glossat. in Illig. Mag. Steph. Illustr. Haustell. i, 12, 3. Jerm. Butt. 89. Dun. Butt. (Nat. 



Libr. Ent. iii, 103), t. v, / 2. 



Aurora. Meig. Schnett. i, 26, 2, t. viii, /. 1 . 



Papilio Edusa. Fab. Ent. Syst. iii, 206, 643. Hubn. Schmett. t. lxxxv, /. 429, 430, ^431, % . Panz. Fa. Germ. 1. 



1. 17. Don. Brit. Ins. iii. 60, t. ccxxxviii, /. 2, $ . Bork. Bliein. Mag. i, 231, 4. Haw. Lep. 11, 10. Stew. Elem. ii, 



121. Vm.Ent. iv, 25. Ochs. Schmett. ii, 173, 1. 

 Papilio Hyale. Wienn. Verz. 165, 3. Scop. Cam. 455. Schreff. Icon. t. cxlix, /. 1—3. Ros. 7ns. iii, t. xlvi,/. 4,5. 



Esp. Schmett. i, t. iv, /. 3, &c. Herbst. Schmett. t. cxiv, /. 1 — 4. Berg. 7ns. t. xvi, / 3, 4, t. xxxii, /. 1. Fuess. Ins. 



20, 554. Cram. Pap. t. cccli, fig. E— h. Bork. Schmett. 119, 254, 3. Schneid. Schmett. 64, 11. Lang. Schmett. ii, 13, 



69—72. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. ii, 977. Schrank. Fn. Boic. 1296. 

 Papilio Electra. Lew. Pap. t. xxxii, / 1 — 3. 

 Le Souci. Geoffr. 7ns. ii, 75, 58. Ernst. Pap. i, 226, t. liv, /. Ill, &c. 



Expansion of the wings 2 — 2^ inches. 



Several specimens from North America. 



DESCRIPTION. 



S 

 Antennas rose-coloured with the club somewhat embrowned : primary wings above saffron-coloured 

 with a broad, deep-brown margin, a little indented internally with the nervures, especially those 

 next the apex, and the fringe, pale yellow ; a black oblong spot marks the disk nearer the anterior 

 than the posterior margin ; anterior margin paler than the rest of the wing ; underneath this wing is 

 paler, the black discoidal submarginal spot has a minute white pupil, and there is a series of about six 

 black spots increasing in size as they approach the interior margin parallel to the posterior one ; the 

 three first of these little spots are very indistinct : the secondary wing is also saffron-coloured and 

 has usually a spot of a deeper colour in the disk ; the margin is also deep-brown, the brown colour 

 terminating in a point short of the anal angle; parallel with the abdomen both wings are embrowned; 

 beneath this wing is of the same colour with the primary, and has a series of indistinct black spots 

 parallel with the margin ; in the middle of this side of the wing is a sesquialterous compound eyelet, 1 

 the exterior circle or atmosphere 2 of which is composed of rusty brown scattered scales, which to 

 form the iris are more condensed, while the pupil is formed of silvery ones. 



Variety B. With the dark brown marginal band of the primary wings rather narrower, and 

 the lesser eyelet of the under side of the secondary one without a silvery pupil. 

 C. Like the preceding, with the eyelet just named single; these two varieties are 

 smaller than A. 



1 Introd to Ent. iv, 296, 24, 30. : Ibid. 295, 20, c. 



