CONSPECTUS OF BUTTERFLIES. 5 
the segments. Not common. Kent, Surrey, Essex, Devon, 
Forest Hill, Darenth Wood. 
PIERIS (Scuranr). 
Palpi short, with three joints, the first long, the second half 
as long, and the tip joints halfas long ; antenna, with the clubbed. 
tips flattish and abrupt; feet with very short forked claws and 
cushions; wings entire, sparingly covered with scales, and 
somewhat translucent ; upper wings somewhat triangular ; wnder 
wings somewhat oval, with a groove to receive the abdomen. 
Egg not known ; caterpillar somewhat spindle shaped, hairy, 
ae warty ; chrysalis, girt with silk, angular with a blunt 
eak, 
Tor HAWTHORN (Pieris Crategi, ScuRANK) appears in June. 
Wings two inches one-third to five-sixths; of a uniform white, 
with black nervures. Caterpillar, at first gregarious and black, 
afterwards with a black line on the back and sides, feeds on 
the hawthorn and fruit trees. Chrysalis lemon-coloured or 
whitish, with black streaks and spots. Not common. Coombe 
Wood, Surrey, New Forest. 
DORITIS (Fapricius). 
The Crimson Rincep (D, Apollo, Sreruens). Indigenous to 
Norway, and said to be British by mistake, 
The Apinr Wnite (D, Mnemosyne, SterHens). Indigenous 
to the Alps, and said to be British by mistake. 
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NYMPHALIDZ (Swainson). 
A. FRITILLARIES, 
NEMEOBIUS (SrEernHEns). 
Palpi very short and hairy, with three joints, the first very 
small, and the third about half as long as the second; antenne 
with clubbed tips, short and flattish ; fore legs short and hairy ; 
hinder legs without spurs; feet with minute undivided claws ; 
upper wings short and triangular ; wnder wings somewhat round 
and indented. 
Egg ; caterpillar ; chrysalis, not known. 
Tue Duxe (N. Lucina, SrepHeNs) appears the end of May and 
June. ngs one inch to one inch one-third ; first pair black, 
Spotted with tawny; second pair underneath with two bands of 
whitish spots. The female darker-coloured above. Caterpillar 
Said to feed on grasses. Not common. Woods in Kent and 
Surrey, New Forest, Dorsetshire and Berkshire. 
MELITA (Fapricius). 7 
Palpi longer than the head, very hairy, with three joints, the 
first slightly bent, the third in some half the length of the second, 
