Plate X. fig. 5, 6.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Papilionidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. PIERIS, _Schrank. Latr. God. Boisduval_. Pontia p. _Ochs._ Papilio
(Dan. Cand. or Heliconii), _Linn._ _Drury, &c._
PIERIS EUCHARIS. Alis suboblongis integerrimis, supra albis, omnibus
utrinque venis limboque nigris: posticis subtùs flavis, maculis
marginalibus coccineis alboque cinctis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 2 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Eucharis, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Cramer, pl._
201. B. C. [male]. 202. C. [female].
Papilio (D.C.) Hyparete, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 176. (Exclus.
Syn. _Linn._)
Pieris Epicharis, _God. Enc. Méth_. ix. _p._ 153. _No._ 122. _Boisd.
Hist. N. Lepid._ 1. _p._ 456.
HABITAT: Bombay.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Head grey. Thorax and abdomen grey. Anterior
wings white: nerves black, with seven white oblong spots placed along the
external edges and tips on a black ground. Posterior wings
cream-coloured, with six oval flesh-coloured spots placed along the
posterior margin on a black ground, separated by the black nerves.
{20}_Under Side._ Palpi, breast, and abdomen grey. Anterior wings white,
with very broad and black nerves, forming white oblong spots on the upper
side. Posterior wings yellow, with a broad black margin along the
external edges, whereon are placed six oval scarlet spots, edged or
surrounded with white. Nerves black and broad. Margins of the wings
entire.
Drury correctly considered this species as distinct from the Linnæan
Hyparete, and accordingly named it Eucharis. Fabricius, notwithstanding,
united the two species, and applied the name Eucharis to another Indian
species (Anthocaris Eucharis of Boisduval, but which it would be more
correct to name Aurora after Cramer). Godart, in order to obviate the
confusion arising from two distinct species having the same specific name,
altered the oldest name (Eucharis, Drury), instead of the incorrectly
imposed name of Fabricius. I have therefore reverted to the name proposed
by Drury, the other species being now removed to the genus Anthocaris.