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THE NICIPPE BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Nicippe. 
PLATE XLV. 
Papilio Nicippe, Cramer, table 210, fig. c. p.—JTerbat. Nat. 
Ins. part v. p. 176, pl. 107, fig. 3, 4.—Pieris Nicippe, 
Schrank and Say, vol. ii. pl. 80.—It is the Colias and 
Pontia of Fabricius, and Gonepteryx of Leach. 
THE wings are slightly crenate, fulvous, and the 
terminal margin black brown ; upper pair of wings 
with a black abbreviated line above the middle, on 
each pair ; the inferior pair with abbreviated ferru- 
ginous lines and spots. 
The black terminal margins of the upper wings 
extend along the costal margin, nearly to the middle ; 
the black transverse line on this pair of wings is very 
short, and consists of two curvatures ; this curvilinear 
line appears also on the inferior surface, which is 
yellow, very slightly tinged with fulvous on the disk, 
with a blackish point at each indentation ofthe edge, 
and an oval, bright, fulvous spot near the base ; the 
black terminal margin of the inferior wings has a 
prominent undulation in the middle; the inferior 
surface of this pair of wings is yellow, marked by 
numerous brownish, or ferruginous, abbreviated, 
transverse lines ; a minute black point in the centre 
of the wings, and two or three more obvious, irre- 
gular, undulated, ferruginous, oblique lines; head 
