Volume 18, Plate VII / Entomology (Insects)

Pieris Belisama, Anthocharis Danæ & Iphias Leucippe

1. Pieris Belisama. Another warmly tinted species of eastern Asia, generally a third larger than the common cabbage butterflies; the male yellowish-white above with the outer angle and costa of the forewings black, the female with the upper wings mostly black and the rest pale ochreous. Beneath the forewings are black with yellow apical spots, the hindwings bright yellow inclining to orange with a dentated black border and a transverse red basal stripe; plentiful in Java, Amboina, and Sumatra.
2. Anthocharis Danæ. The male is pure white above, the forewings with a large triangular carmine patch at the tip bounded by a black oblique band and black nervures, the hindwings with a variable black border. Beneath it is impure white with black discoidal streaks and a fulvous-red forewing apex divided by blackish spots; the female has a dusky base and a wider, better-defined margin, and the species is found in the East Indies and at the Cape of Good Hope.
3. Iphias Leucippe. One of the largest Pierides, often above four inches across, with bright fulvous-red forewings clouded greenish-yellow at the base and black nervures and borders, the female bearing a row of fulvous spots; the hindwings are citron-yellow with a dentated black border in the female. Beneath, both sexes are deep fulvous sprinkled with black points and dusky lines, the abdomen citron-yellow; native to Amboina, its caterpillar likely feeds on a species of Capparis.