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PIERIIXE. 
brilliant reddish orange, slightly shot with violet. All the wings 
have a black border, spotted with yellow, almost exactly as in 
C. Edusa. The fore wings are greenish on the costa, and have a 
black discoidal spot. The hind wings are greenish at the base and 
inner margin, and have an orange central spot. Under side : — In 
the male this is much the same as that of Edusa, but the colour is 
more of a greenish yellow, and the marginal spots and other 
markings are brown. In the female the fore wings are orange- 
yellow, with the costa and hind margin greenish ; discoidal spot 
with a pearly white centre. Hind wings greyish green, with a 
white discoidal spot. The head, thorax and abdomen are black 
above and clothed with light hairs, beneath they are greenish 
yellow; antennae reddish. Legs light pink. Fringes of all the 
wings light pink, mixed with yellow. PI. XIV. 3. 
Time of Appeakance. — July. 
Habitat. — The mountains of Northern Greece. 
Larva undescribed. 
Most authors consider this form to be a local variety of the 
Asiatic Golias Auroruia, H.-S., a notice of which will be found 
amongst the extra European species. 
Genus 7. — GONEPTERYX, Leach. Edinb. Eiicycl. ix. p. 128 
(1815) ; Houbld. Gen. I)iur. Lep. p. 69 (1847). 
Anteos, Hub. Verz. bek Sclmiet. p. 09 (1816). 
PiHODOCERA, Hoisd. Auier. Lep. p. 70 (1833); Sp. Gen. 
1836. 
All the wings with an angular projection ; without any dark 
border ; on each wing at the edge of the discoidal cell an orange 
spot, which has a slightly silvery centre beneath. AntennaB red, 
and curved downward. Body downy. 
Besides the European species there are three or four others 
very closely allied ; they inhabit various parts of Tropical and 
sub-Tropical America. The two European forms figured in this 
work are, by many entomologists, considered as varieties of one 
species. 
The species forming this genus were separated from Golias, 
