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PIERIS PHILYRA. 
PLATE VI. Fig. 3. 
Godart, Doisd — Pap. Hyparcte, Cramer , PI. 210, fig. A, B, and 
PI. 339, fig. E, F. 
The figure above referred to represents tbe under 
side of the female of this handsome species. The 
male is of a bluish-white above, surrounded with a 
black external margin, and having a black patch on 
the tip of the anterior wings, divided by an arched 
row of white oval spots; the female nearly black 
above, the inner half of the wings dull white, the 
apex with white oval spots : on the under side both 
sexes are black, with the inner half of all the wings 
yellow, sprinkled with minute black points; the 
upper pair having a small white spot at the ex- 
tremity of the discoidal cell, and a posterior row of 
yellow oval spots largest towards the anterior mar- 
gin ; the under pair with seven long wedge-shaped 
reddish-brown spots behind the middle, becoming 
somewhat lighter posteriorly, making the hinder 
part of the wing from the middle of the discoidal 
cell sometimes appear entirely of that colour, with 
dilated black nervures and a black border. 
Inhabits Amboina, New Guinea, &c. Pieris 
Plexaris, described by Godart ( Encyc . Meth. p. 151) 
from a figure in Donovan’s Insects of New Holland, 
is regarded by a recent author as a variety. 
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