Butterflies; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
A section of _Pieris_ has lately been established as a genus under
the above name, founded, however, on characters not of a very
decided description. The most important one perhaps is the shape of
the chrysalis, which is boat-shaped, or equally attenuated to both
extremities, somewhat arched, and without lateral points. The antennæ
of the perfect insect are short, with the articulations distinctly
marked, the club rather abrupt and forming an ovoid compressed mass.
The common British species _Mancipium Cardamines_ is referred to it,
and this insect may be regarded as a characteristic example of the
kinds which it includes. Like the _Orange-tip_, the majority have a
patch of bright red on the tips of the anterior wings, and the under
side of the posterior is often beautifully marked with green and pearl
white. Several other species, besides that just mentioned, are natives
of Europe, but their principal resort seems to be the intertropical
countries of Africa.
ANTHOCHARIS DANÆ.
PLATE VII. Fig. 2.
_Boisd._--Pap. Danæ, _Fabr., Donov. Insects of India_, Pl. 1, fig.
2.--Pap. Eborea, _Cramer_, Pl. 352, fig. C, D, E, F.--Pieris Danæ,
_Godart_.--Pontia Danæ, _Horsfield, Insects of Ind. Comp._, p. 141, 68.
Surface of the male pure white; the upper wings having a large
triangular patch of bright carmine at the extremity bounded on the
inner side by a black oblique band, and narrowly margined with the
same colour externally, where the nervures are likewise black; there
is likewise a black point at the extremity of the discoidal cell:
under wings with a black border, variable in breadth, and occasionally
macular. Under side impure white, with a black streak at the extremity
of all the discoidal cells, those on the hinder wings divided by a
reddish brown point; the apex of the upper wings fulvous-red, divided
by a curved row of blackish spots, continued across the under wings
as far as the anal angle. The female differs from the male in having
a large space at the base of the wings dusky, and the marginal hand
wider, and better defined on its inner edge.
Males sometimes occur in which the marginal band is entirely wanting in
the hinder wings.
Found in the East Indies, at the Cape of Good Hope, &c.
GENUS IPHIAS, _Boisd._
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