458 PAPILIO^'ID^. 
The late Mr. H. Pryer informed me that in its earlier stages P. rapce, in 
Japan, is quite typical, and the larvse feed on Cruciferag. 
Distribution. Em-ope, North Africa, and the temperate parts of Asia. 
Genus SYNCHLOE. 
Sijnchloe, Hiibner, Butler, Cist. Entom. i. p. 51 (1870). 
"■Front wings subtriangular ; upper discocellular about half the length of the lower, oblique; 
lower discocellular angulated, nearly perpendicular. 
''Hind wings. Upper discocellular half the length of lower, oblique; lower discocellular much 
less oblique, and more or less arched. 
" Body hairj ; palpi slender, hairy beneath; antennx with more or less distinct flattened club. 
" Type S. eallidice, Esper." {Butler, 1. c.) 
Syncliloe daplidice. 
Papilio daplidice, Liuuseus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 760 (1706) ; Hiibner, Eur. Scbmett. 
figs. 414, 415 (1798?). 
Pieris daplidice, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 33, pi. vii. fig. 4 (1884). 
Synchloe daplidice, Butler, Proe. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1872, p. 62. 
" Expands I'oO to 1-SO in. Wings white, marked with black and grey above ; the hind wings 
having a chequered pattern of green beneath. The tip of the fore wings is black in both 
sexes, divided by four small white spots, each one sending an elongation into the marginal 
fringe ; at the extremity of the discoidal cell is a black spot, in which the discoidal nervure 
appears as a fine white line ; this black spot is narrow in the male, large and square in the 
female ; the latter has also a black spot of a round or lunar shape near the hind margin. 
The hind wings are white and unspotted in the male, showing the pattern of the underside 
through. In the female they have a black border formed of cresceutic patches, with the 
convex edge inwards, and divided by black dashes. Underside : — Pattern of the fore wings 
the same as above, except that the border of the tip and hind margin is powdered with green 
scales, also the discoidal spot ; the base of the wing is tinged with greenish yeUow and there 
is a black spot near the inner margin in both sexes. Hind wings green, with a slight tinge 
of yellow, and finely powdered with black scales ; on this ground-work there is an arrange- 
ment of white spots, disposed as follows ; — Two or three irregularly placed near the base of 
the wing ; outside these a row forming a band ; and again external to these, a marginal row 
of five spots, oval or nearly quadrate. 
" Larva. Greyish blue, covered with smaU black granulations, with four longitudinal white 
stripes, and with a yellow spot on each segment. The legs and ventral surface are white. 
Chrysalis grey, speckled with black, and with reddish stripes. The larva feeds, like other 
species of the genus, on Cruciferae and Eesedaceae." {Lang, I. c.) 
For figures of the early stages and a complete life-history of this species, 
see Buckler's ' Lar\3e of British Butterflies.' 
Occurs sparingly in Western China at Wa-shan, Chow-pin-sa, and Ta- 
