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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



wings are marked with a black dot in the middle ; the female having in the hinder pair a 

 widely interrupted macular band of a brown colour irrorated with gray. 

 Pieris Venilia. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 121. 

 The great similarity of the species last enumerated has already been pointed out : they are however clearly 

 discriminated in the preceding description, in which I have followed the authors of the Encyclopedie, but 

 not without subjecting each to a close examination. Pieris Venilia is first described in the work just cited ; 

 it appears to be, in Java, the representative of the three former. Our collection contains a single pair in 

 perfect preservation. 



75. Pontia Judith. Alee subconcolores ; anticce albce, venis limboque nigris ; posticce flavce, limbo 



nigro, unguium analem versus aurantiacce. (Exp. alar. unc. If — 2£.) 

 Wino-s agreeing in colour on both sides; anterior white with black nervures and posterior border; 

 hinder pair yellow, with black border; the anal angle and its immediate confines having a 

 more saturated orange tint. 



Papilio D. C Judith. Fab. Mant. Ins. torn. 2. p. 22. No. 230. 

 Papilio Judith. Donov. Ind. Ins. (With a figure.) Mus. Dom. Banks. 

 Pieris Judith. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 121. 

 This is, in Java, one of the most abundant species of Pieris. The specimens in our collection are 

 numerous, diversified as to size, but agreeing in colouring and markings. 



76. Pontia Coronis. Alee suprd albce, limbo postico communi nigro, anticarum dilatiore albo- 



macidato venisque distinctioribus : subtus virescenti-grisece venis latioribus subconfluentibus 

 fascidque posticd fuscis, ferrugineo vel griseo-irroratis pulverulentis ; posticce macula basali ad 

 costam attenuatd triangulari insigni saturatissimd fulvo-pulverulentd (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 10 

 lin. — 2 unc. 3 lin.) 

 Wings white above, with a common posterior black border, which is broader in the fore-wings and 

 spotted with white, the nervures also in these being more pronounced : underneath greenish- 

 gray with broader spreading subconfluent nervures covered with opaque ferruginous 

 irrorations, and a posterior band of a brown colour; hinder wings at the base with a deep- 

 fulvous triangular mark extending attenuated along the costa, its covering being opaque 

 and pulverulent. 



Plate IV, fig. 9 ; 9; a. The Larva and Chrysalis, 

 Papilio D. C. Coronnis. Fab. Spec. Ins. torn. 2 p. 45. No. 193. 

 Papilio Coronis. Cram. pi. 44. fig. B. C. 



Pieris Coronis. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 132. 

 The metamorphosis of this species is distinctly represented on our fourth plate. In the chrysalis an 

 excellent illustration of this organ, as modified in the present section, is afforded. Our specimens, many of 

 which were obtained by breeding, are numerous ; they exhibit no variation in the markings, and but little 

 in their colouring ; in a few individuals the posterior wings have underneath a grayish tint, and the basal 

 mark is obscure and whitish, but in no single instance have the wings a yellow tint. In the species next 

 following, the whole surface of the hinder wings underneath is covered with an uniform brio-lit yellow 

 colour, and the triangular basal mark, which is so prominent in the Pieris Coronis, is entirely wanting ■ and 

 as our collection contains more than twelve specimens, which all essentially agree amono- themselves and 

 with Cramer's figures of P. Evagete, I have introduced that species with his original denomination. All our 

 specimens are from Continental India. 



