PIERtN^E. 
There is much variation in the markings of the upperside in both sexes, especially in the 
females, which in the wet forms are sometimes more or less suffused with brown over the whole 
upper surface. 
Fig. 4, PI. XI is the upperside of a $ taken in June or wet form ; Fig. io of the same 
plate a £ of May, also in wet form ; Fig. 3, PI. XIII a J of December or dry form. 
Egg, spindle-shaped, smooth, whitish or tipped with pink at apex ; laid singly on the 
upperside of leaves of the foodplant of the larva, Capparis pumila> Champ., Nat. Ord. Cappartdcce , 
only known from S. China. Apparently the larva only feeds here on this shrub, which is common 
over much of this part of Kwangtung. 
Larva, figured on PI. 3a, Fig. 23, pupa Fig. 24. The larvae rest on the upperside of the 
leaves. 
Pieris (Catophaga) paulina, Cram. 
A very pretty insect, not at all common, and it seems to occur only in the early months 
of the year, generally during April and May. It has a swift flight, especially in the J, and appears 
to chiefly haunt broken, bushy country, where it frequents the flowers of certain trees and shrubs 
which are in bloom at the season mentioned—thickly-clustered white or greenish-white small but 
strong-scented flowers. P, paulina flies swiftly from one bush to another, occasionally resting a 
few moments with open wings on a leaf or flower. The sexes differ much both in shape and 
marking, as will be seen from the figures. The females seem more numerous than the other sex, 
unless it be that they are conspicuously marked and easily observed, whilst the £ may perhaps be 
mistaken sometimes for P. nerissa. 
Fig. 16, PI. IX is from a £ taken in June; Fig. 17 of the same plate from a also of 
June. I have only taken this butterfly at Macao, but it no doubt occurs also at Hongkong. 
