PJERIS. 



455 



Pieris cisseis. (Plate XLIIT. fig. 5 6 .) 



Pieris cisseis, Lcecli, Entomologist, xxiii. j). 192 (1890). 



Male. White ; apex of primaries broadly black ; at the outer extremity of discal cell is an elongate 

 black spot, and towards external margin of the wing arc two black spots, — the upper one is 

 the largest, and is connected with the apical band. Under surface : — The black spots of 

 primaries are reproduced, but the apex and costa are yellowish : secondaries clear pale yellow. 



Expanse 70 millim. 



This interesting species appears to be exceedingly rare. I have only 

 received one specimen, which was taken by a native collector at Chang- 

 yang. 



Resembles the female of P. brassicce, but the black discal spot at once 

 distinguishes it. The secondaries are without darker scales on the under 

 surface. 



Pieris canidia. 



Papilio canidia, Sparrman, Arnoen. Acad. vii. p. oQ^, note m (1768). 

 Papilio gliciria, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. clxxi. figs. E, P (1779). 

 Pieris gliciria, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. p. 524 (1836). 



Synchloii claripennis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xix. p. 96 (1877). 

 Sijnchloe sordida, Butler, 1. c. 



Allied to P. hrassica. but the male differs from the same sex of that species, on the upper surface, 

 in having the inner edge of the black apical and outer marginal border of primaries deeply 

 indented between the ncrvules ; there is a black spot on primaries between second and third 

 median nervulcs, a series of black spots on the outer margin of secondaries, and the costal 

 spot of these wings is generally larger than in P. brassicie. On the under surface P. canidia 

 agrees with P, rapce in having a pale space above and a dark streak below the median 

 nervure of secondaries, but the base of costa is bright orange-yellow. 



Female similar to the male, but the base and discoidal cell of primaries is powdered with black 

 scales, there are two large black spots on these wings and the black spots on outer margin 

 of secondaries are larger than in the male. 



Expanse, J aud 2 , 49-70 millim. 



Var. claripennis, Butler. " Male. "Wings above white, with black markings nearly as in S. gliciria, 

 but the base less suffused with grey, and the large discal black spots of primaries absent on 

 the upper surface ; primaries below with the discal spots well marked and large, the basal 

 two fifths of the^ cell grey ; secondaries with the lower half of the cell and the median inter- 

 spaces greyish, base of costa broadly orange. 



" Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines." {^Butler, I. c.) 



Var. sordida, Butler. '•' Male. "Wings above white, base blackish ; primaries with the basal half 

 of costa grey ; an oblong costal patch at apex, its inner margin deutated, its externo inferior 



