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Stephens, Ill. Brit. Lep. Haust. i. p. 5 (1827); id. Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. i. (1850). 
Westwood, Intr. Ent. ii. p. 347 (1840). Stainton, Manual B. Lep. i. p. 12 (185/). Bates, Journ. 
Ent. i. p. 219 (1861); id. ii. p. 177 (1864). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 18 (1882). 
Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 116 (1881). Distant, Khop. Malay, p. 283 (1885). Scudder, Butt. 
U.S. ii. 1027 (1889). Moore, Lep. Ind. i. p. 3 (1890). 
Pierides , Boisduval, Spec. G-en. Lep. i. pp. 163, 402 (1836); id. Index Meth. Eur. Lep. p. 4 (1840). 
Westwood, Intr. Ent. ii. p. 349 (1840). Blanchard, Hist. Ins. ii. p. 326 (1845). Kirby, Eur. 
Butt. pp. 2, 7 (1863). Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 52 (1886). 
Pierida Duponchel, Catal. Lep. Fr. p. 21 (1840); id. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 23 (1844). Doubleday and 
Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 32 (1847). Lang, Eur. Butt. i. p. 26 (1884). Doherty, Journ. As. 
Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 110. Kirby, Allen’s Hat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 137 (1896). Tutt, Brit. Butt. 
pp. 86, 223 (1896). Jordan, Hov. Zool. v. p. 381 (1896). Grote, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1897, p. 340. Young, Journ. Bombay H. H. Soc. 1903, p. 306. 
Pierince , Swainson, Cab. Cycl. p. 87 (1840). Bates, Journ. Ent. ii. p. 177 (1864). Butler, Catal. 
Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 199 (1869). Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 428 (1871). Moore, Lep. 
Ceylon, i. p. 116 (1881). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt. Ind. etc. i. p. 18 (1882), Distant, 
Bhop. Malay, p. 283 (1885). Scudder, Butt. U.S. ii. p. 1033 (1889). 
Pleliconides, Wallengren, Lep. Scand. pp. 5, 130 (1853). 
Pieridi , Stainton, Man. B. Lep. i. pp. 12, 15 (1856). 
Pieridina, Herr. Schmffer, Lep. Exot. p. 54 (1858); id. Prod. Syst. Lep. p. 7 (1864). Plotz, Mitth. 
Kat. Yer. H. V. Riingen, xvii. p. 7 (1886). 
PismorphiadcB et Pierididce , Grote, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. xxxix. pp. 13, 18 (1900). 
Characters of the Pieriix®. 
Imago. —Wings of moderate or of small size; discoidal cells always closed. 
Foreiving subtriangular, rarely triangular, apex either rounded or obtusely or 
pointedly-angled, occasionally subfalcate and the outer margin slightly dentated ; 
subcostal vein either three , four , or five branched ; the first, and usually also the 
second branch, is emitted before the end of the cell; the second being either single 
or rarely bifid, or the third is bifid or trifid; the upper radial veinlet is most 
frequently emitted beyond the end of the cell—and, when so positioned, appears as 
an additional subcostal branch, the lower radial only then being emitted from the 
discocellulars ; in some genera five subcostal branches arise consecutively beyond 
the end of the cell, and the two radials are both emitted from the discocellulars ; 
median vein three branched; submedian vein free. Hinmving broadly rounded 
externally, never tailed; outer margin rarely slightly dentated and with a more 
prominent angulation at the end of the upper median veinlet; abdominal margin 
channelled for the reception of the abdomen; precostal vein free and emitted at 
some distance from the base of the costal vein; no interno-basal costal cell; a 
submedian and an internal vein present. Body moderately slender; abdomen of 
male with moderately large anal valves; palpi rather long, basal joints hairy; 
antennm long, club more or less lengthened, or short, thickened gradually to the 
