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 LEPIDOPTERA. 



of the New World. Jamaica, and Florida, are given as its true habitats by Boisduval, 

 and New York is added in the Encyclopedic Methodique. 



M. Boisduval' s grounds for substituting his own generic name, Ehodocera, in 

 preference to that of Dr. Leach, are quite untenable ; Dr. Leach's name having a 

 long priority over that of Latreille, employed for Noctua, Libatrix, which had also 

 been previously named Scoliopteryx by Germar, which name Stephens has retained. 

 I have been compelled, however, slightly to alter Dr. Leach's name, to render it more 

 in accordance with its Greek derivatives. 



PIERIS JUDITH. 



Plate XXVII. fig. 2. 



Species. Pieris Judith : alis rotund atis integerrimis ; anticis albis venis margineque po.-tico 

 (albo maculato) nigris ; postiois fulvis, margine nigris. Expans. alar, una 2 — 2-J. 

 Pieris : with the wings entire and rounded ; the anterior white, with the veins and 

 posterior margin, black, the latter spotted with white ; the posterior wings 

 fulvous, with a black border. Expanse of the wings, 2 — 2| inches. 

 Syx. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Judith, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 202. Boisduval Hist. Nat. 

 Lepid. 1. 468. Enc. Meth. 9. 121. HubnerZut. 669—670. (Acrrea J.) Horsfield 

 Lep. Jav. p. 144. (Pontia J.) 

 Habitat. " Poulicandor, Mus. D. Banks." ( Fobricius). Java, Sumatra, (Boisduval ) 



PIERIS LIBYTHEA. 



Plate XXVII. fig. 3. 



Species. Pieris Libythea : alis rotund atis integerrimis albis; anticis costa baseos apiceque, 

 posticis punctis marginalibus fuscis. Expans. alar, una 2|. 

 Pieris : with the wings entire, rounded, and white ; the anterior having the costa 

 at the base and the extremity, and the posterior having several marginal spots 

 dark brown. Expanse of the wings, 2 J inches. 

 Syn. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Libythea, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 190. Syst. Ent. p. 471. 

 Pieris Libitina, Enc. Meth 9. 133. Boisduval Hist. Nat. Lepid. p. 499. 



The Fabrician specific name of this insect has been altered in the Encyclopedic 

 Methodique, merely because the same name has been subsequently used generically for 

 a distinct group of Lepidoptera. 



