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clothed with short scales ; antennae with a rather short club broadening to the tip, 
compressed and grooved beneath. 
Egg.— “ Acorn-shaped, with 12 or 14 prominent ribs. Deposited on end.” 
Larva. —“ Adult. About 1 inch 3 lines, rather slender, with tubercular black 
spots, each emitting a black hair. Food plant Reseda , N. 0. Besedacem. Fond of 
lying at full length along the flower spikes, and several crowded together at the 
summit in amicable companionship.” 
Pupa. — “ Seven and a half lines long, thickest across the thorax and end of 
wing-cases ; head with a projecting taper-point; thorax sharply keeled and humped 
on the back ” (Buckler, Brit. Butt. 121 (1886). 
Type. —P. Daplidice. 
PONTIA DAPLIDICE (Plate 521, fig. 1 <?, la, b, $). 
Papilio Daplidice , Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. ed. i. p. 468 (1758) ; id. xii. ed. i. 2, p, 760 (1767). 
Hiibner, Eur. Selim ett. figs. 414, 415. 
Pontia Daplidice, Eabrieius, Illiger’s Mag. vi. p. 283 (1807). Curtis, Brit. Entom. pi. 48 (1824). 
Kirby, Allen’s Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 152 (1896). 
Pieris Daplidice , Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 128 (1819). Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 544 (1836). 
Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 48 (1846). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 
p. 75 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 489. Laag, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, p. 33. Butler, 
Catal. Eabr. Lep. B. M. p. 204 (1869). Bienert, Lep. Ergeb. Reise Persien, p. 26 (1870). 
Mancipium Daplidice, Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 22 (1827); id. Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. 
p. 5 (1850). 
Synchloe Daplidice , Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 410; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1881, p. 611 ; id. 1882, p. 4. 
Staudinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 61, pi. 4 (1886). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, 
p.342. Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 375; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 204. Leech, Butt, of 
China, ii. p. 458 (1894). 
Imago.— Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with the base slightly 
irrorated with greyish-black scales ; a black large quadrate spot at end of the cell 
crossed by the slender white discocellular veinlet, an apical black band traversed 
by four white irregular-shaped spots of which the upper and third are largest and 
each slenderly extending to the outer margin ; in some specimens a faint indication 
of a lower discal blackish-speckled spot between the lower median and submedian is 
also present. 'Hindwing with the markings of the underside visible and of a darker 
tint than the ground colour ; sometimes with a slightly indicated greyish-black 
scaled costal spot and submarginal lunules, these scales also occasionally extending 
along the tip of the veins to the outer margin. Underside. Forewing with the 
apical white-spotted band less prominent, olivescent-green, its lower portion slightly 
irrorated with blackish scales, the cell spot less prominent. Hindwing olivescent- 
green, sparsely irrorated with minute black scales; with a large sub-basal costal 
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