. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. PIERINAE: THE GENUS PIERIS. PIERIS SCHRANK. 1171 Pieria Scbrank, Faun, boica, ii, i: 152, IHO (1801). Andropodum (pars) Hiibner. Oanoria Dalm., Kongl. vetensk. acad. handl., xxxvil:61,86(1816). Pontia StepheiiH Gt al. (Not Pontia Fal)r. rcstr.) Type.âPop. rapae Linn, Flinker and jsliinmer, and turn In tneir lli^ht Surely the suiiHhine suffices to tame them, Close to my hand they will swinj; and alijrht! Margauet Dpxand. . Fleecy, gauze-l
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. PIERINAE: THE GENUS PIERIS. PIERIS SCHRANK. 1171 Pieria Scbrank, Faun, boica, ii, i: 152, IHO (1801). Andropodum (pars) Hiibner. Oanoria Dalm., Kongl. vetensk. acad. handl., xxxvil:61,86(1816). Pontia StepheiiH Gt al. (Not Pontia Fal)r. rcstr.) Type.âPop. rapae Linn, Flinker and jsliinmer, and turn In tneir lli^ht Surely the suiiHhine suffices to tame them, Close to my hand they will swinj; and alijrht! Margauet Dpxand. . Fleecy, gauze-like, floating draperies, ⢠Like drifted snow or sea-foam fantasies. Tappan.âi/esperia. Imago (56 : fi). Head modemtely large, furnished with long delicate hairs of nearly equal length in front and above. Front tumid, particularly in the uiiddlc (where it is minutely tuberculate), considerably and rather generally surpassing the front of the eyes, above descending considerably to the antcnnal pits and continuing nearly on a level to tlic expanding termination beliind the antennae where there is a delicate trans- verse ridge; the portion in front of the antennae is lialf as broad again as lilgh and as broad as the eyes on a front view, the sides scarcely diverging; lower Iwrder squarely docked. Vertex somewhat depressed above, tumid l)c)iind, only in the latter part surpassing the level of the eye, the anterior outer angles raised somewhat and a very little produced; anterior border scarcely concave, scarcely raised, tlie sliglit ridge abrupt. Eyes rather large and full, naked. Antennae witli the posterior base in ad- vance of the middle of tlie summit, inserted in distinct, moderately deep pits, separated from each other by the width of the second antenmil joint; consideral)ly longer tlian the abdomen, composed of thirty-three or thirty-four joints of wliich tlie last seven or eiglit form a depressed subspatulatc club about two and a half times broader than the stalk, tliro
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