PLATE VI. Fig. 3.
_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.