ANTHOCARIS II. 
ANTHOCARIS SARA. 1—5. 
AntJiocaris Sara, Boisduval, Ann. Ent. Soc. de Er. 1852. 
Male. Expands 2 inches. 
Upper- side pure white, blackish at base ; primaries have a large bright orange 
apical patch, broadly edged at apex* of wing by black and enclosing on hind mar- 
gin two serrated black spots ; posteriorly edged by a broad black band which ex- 
tends from costal edge across the cell, covering the arc, and connects with a waved 
band of irregular width and less intensity of color that reaches to inner angle ; 
costal margin slightly specked with black ; secondaries usually immaculate, but 
sometimes marked by small black patches on the ends of the nervules, especially 
at and near the outer angle ; fringe of primaries alternate yellowish and black, of 
secondaries white, except at tips of nervules where it is black. 
Under side white tinged with yellow on hind margin and apex of primaries ; 
the orange spot reduced, pale ; apex specked with black ; on the arc a broken 
black bar. Secondaries have the nervures yellow, and the surface covered thinly 
and irregularly with greenish points and patches. 
Body above covered with grey hairs ; beneath, abdomen yellowish, thorax 
white ; palpi white tipped with grey ; antennae brown above, whitish below ; club 
black, white at tip. 
Female. Same size. 
Upper side color of male ; the orange patch paler and narrower, not bordered 
with black on inner side, but edged without by a sinuous blackish band or stripe 
more or less complete, between which and the blackish apical border are serrated 
white spots, sometimes confluent ; discal mark, a bent bar not extending beyond 
the arc : under side as in male. 
Variety A, Female. — Upper side pale yellow, marked as in the type. 
California. Found especially in Santa Clara County: rare in vicinity of San 
Francisco, where it is replaced by A. Reakirtii. According to Mr. Henry Ed- 
wards, nearly one half of the females are of the yellow variety 
(See notes on A. Reakirtii.) 
