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SCARCE CLOUDED YELLOW BUTTERFLY. 
Colias Europome. 
PLATE VI. Fig. 2. 
Stephen's Ulus. ii. PI. 1 *, Figs. 1, 2, and 3. — Eurvmus Euro. 
pome ; Clouded Sulphur, Swuinson's Zool. Illus. 2d ser. 
No. 15. — Haworth, Lep. Brit. 13. No. 12. 
“ Both sexes of this fine insect are of a fine sul- 
phureous-yellow above ; the male has the hinder mar- 
gin of both wings deeply edged with black, an ovate 
spot of that colour on the disk of the anterior, and 
an obsolete fulvous spot on that of the posterior ; the 
border on the latter is irregularly sinuated within : 
beneath the anterior wings are paler, with the tips 
rather deeper, the discoidal spot is whiter, with a 
black or dusky iris, and parallel with the hinder mar- 
gin is a very obsolete row of dusky spots ; the pos- 
terior wings are of a deeper yellow, minutely irrorated 
with black, with a discoidal silvery ocellus, having a ful- 
vescent iris, and a secondary silver spot adjacent ; they 
have also an obsolete row of dusky spots parallel with 
the hinder margin, and forming a continuous series 
with those of the anterior wings, and a larger some- 
what triangular fulvescent spot on the upper edge. 
The female differs in having the black border of the 
