Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Papilionidæ, Leach.
Genus. Pieris, Schrank. Papilio (Dan. Cand.), Linn. &c.
Pieris Hypatia. Alis rotundatis integerrimis, suprà nigris, fasciâ albâ communi sinuatâ, subtus anticis maculâ apicali albidâ, posticis basi fulvo radiatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Pap. (Dan. Cand.) Hypatia, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Papilio Epaphia, Cramer, pl. 207. fig. D. E.
Pieris Higinia, Latr. et God. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 135. No. 45.
Pieris Saba, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 201. 627. Latr. God. loc. cit. No. 46.
Pieris Malatha, Boisd. Faun. Madagascar, pl. 1. f. 4, 5.
Pieris Orbona, Boisd. loc. cit. pl. 1. f. 3.
Habitat: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1775" (Drury's MSS.).