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LEPIDOPTERA.

therefore most probably the P. Eucharis of Drury (Epicharis, Enc. Meth. and Bois-duval; Hyparete, Fabricius), or the P. Autonoe of Cramer and Boisduval .

The leaf represented in the plate is that of Sophora Japonica (Shining-leavedSophora ), an elegant and valuable timber tree, of which Sir G. Staunton speaks asvery frequent in China .

PIERIS (IPHIAS) GLAUCIPPE.

Plate 31. fig. 1.

Sub-Gen. Iphias, Boisduval .

Ch. Sp. P. alis supra albis, anticis macula magna apicali (medio fulvo) nigra, subtus (nisidimidio basali anticarum) cinereis, strigis minutis fuscis irroratis. Expans. alar.4 unc.

P. with the upper sides of the wings white, the anterior having a lai'ge black spotat tip, the middle of which is rich orange ; beneath, except the basal half of theanterior wings, greyish with brown waves. Expanse of the wings 4 inches.

Syn. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Glaucippe, Linn. Syst. Nad. 2. 762. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 1.

p. 198. No. 618. Herbst. Pap. Fab. 96. f 1—3. Enc. M'eth. IX. p. 119.Drury Exot. Lepid. 1. pi. 10. f. 3. 4. 2nd edit. p. 20. Horsjield Lep. Jav.p. 130. (Colias Gl.)

$ Pap. Callirhoe, Fab. Mant. Ins. 2. 20. 215.

Iphias Glaucippe, Boisduval Hist . Nat. Lep. 1 . p. 596.

P. Glaucippe is an elegant insect: very common in China , and it is said, in someadjacent parts of Asia , also Bengal, Java , &c. The Papilio Callirrhoe of Linnteus isconsidered as the female of this species: few authors deem it more than a variety(|8). Dr. Horsfield has described and figured the caterpillar and chrysalis of thisspecies in his work upon the Lepidoptera of Java above referred to.