130 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S 



DOUBTFUL BRITISH SPECIES, 



ACCORDING TO MR. STEPHENS. 



COLIAS PALiENO. 



Butterfly. Wings of the male citron yellow ; of the female 

 whitish. Posterior margin black, sometimes dusted with 

 yellow, and sometimes with white. At the anterior margin 

 in the middle is a black, and in the secondary wings a 

 whitish spot. The edge is rose-coloured. The j)rimary 

 wings are underneath in the male yellow, in the middle 

 dusted with black, with the posterior margin greenish ; those 

 of the female are whitish ; the anterior margin deep yellow, 

 a whitish rhomboidal spot edged with black in the middle. 

 The secondary wings are deep yellow, sprinkled with black- 

 ish atoms, and there is a silver spot cinctured with brownish 

 red. 



Caterpillar. 



Chrysalis. 



Observatian. The above is the description of C Palana in 

 Ochsenheimer's Schmetterliunc vuu Eiiropii, vol. ii. p. 185, 

 who regards Papilio Europomv of Esper as synonymous with 

 it. As Mr. Haworth took his description of C. Europomc 

 not from the .specimens in the collections of Messrs. Fran- 

 ciUon and Swainson, which he refers to, but from a German 

 one, it seems not quite certain whether that was synonymous 



