PIEEIS. 455 
Pieris cisseis. (Plate XLIIT. fig. 5 d .) 
Pieris cisseis, Leecli, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 192 (1890). 
Male. White ; apox of primaries broadly black ; at the outer extremity of discal cell is au elongate 
black spot, and towards external margin of the wing are 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 apes and costa are yellowish : secondaries clear pale yellow. 
Expanse 76 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. brassicw, but the black discal spot at once 
distinguishes it. The secondaries are without darker scales on the under 
surface. 
Pieris canidia, 
Pajnlto canidia, Sparrmau, Amoen. Acad. vii. p. 504, note m (17G8). 
Papilio gliciria, Cramei', Pap. Exot. ii. pi. clxxi. figs. E, F (1779). 
Pieris gliciria, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. p. 524 (1836). 
Synckloe claripennis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xix. p. 9G (1877). 
Synchloe sordida, Butler, 1. c. 
Allied to P. brassicce, 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 nervules ; there is a black spot on primaries between second and third 
median nervules, a series of black spots on the outer margin of secondaries, and the costal 
spot of these wings is generally larger than in P. brassicce. 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 J , 40-70 millim. 
Var. claripenniSj Butler. " Male. AVings above white, with black markings nearly as in S. tjliciria, 
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 fifchs of the cell grey; secondaries with the lower half of the cell and the median .iuter- 
sjiaoes 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 
