Godart, Boisd.—Pap. Hyparete, Cramer, Pl. 210, fig. A, B, and Pl. 339, fig. E, F.
The figure above referred to represents the under side of the female of this handsome species. The male is of a bluish-white above, surrounded with a black external margin, and having a black patch on the tip of the anterior wings, divided by an arched row of white oval spots; the female nearly black above, the inner half of the wings dull white, the apex with white oval spots: on the under side both sexes are black, with the inner half of all the wings yellow, sprinkled with minute black points; the upper pair having a small white spot at the extremity of the discoidal cell, and a posterior row of yellow oval spots largest towards the anterior margin; the under pair with seven long wedge-shaped reddish-brown spots behind the middle, becoming somewhat lighter posteriorly, making the hinder part of the wing from the middle of the discoidal cell sometimes appear entirely of that colour, with dilated black nervures and a black border.
Inhabits Amboina, New Guinea, &c. Pieris Plexaris, described by Godart (Encyc. Meth. p. 151) from a figure in Donovan’s Insects of New Holland, is regarded by a recent author as a variety.
PIERIS BELISAMA.
PLATE VII. Fig. 1.
Godart, Boisd.—Pap. Belisama, Cramer, Pl. 258, fig. A, B, C, D.
P. Belisama is another of these handsome and warmly tinted species which abound in Eastern Asia and the adjacent islands. It is generally about a third larger than our common cabbage butterflies, but smaller examples frequently occur; the male yellowish-white above, with the whole of the outer angle and the costa of the anterior wings black; the limb of the hinder pair of the same colour. Female with the greater portion of the upper wings black, the remainder pale ochreous. Under side of the upper wings black in both sexes, with a group of yellow spots on the apex, and a small transverse whitish streak at the extremity of the discoidal cell; the same side of the under wings bright yellow, inclining to orange, with a black posterior border dentated on the inner side, and bearing a row of rounded yellow spots; at the base there is a transverse red stripe lying parallel with the margin; body whitish; antennæ black.
Occurs plentifully in Java, Amboina, Sumatra, &c.
PLATE 7.
Lizars sc.