PLATE VII. Fig. 3.
Pap. Leucippe, _Fabr. Cramer_, Pl. 36, fig. A, B, C.--_Donovan, Insects
of India._--Pieris Leucippe, _Godart_.
One of the largest of the _Pierides_, frequently measuring upwards
of four inches between the tips of the wings; anterior pair bright
fulvous red, clouded at the base with greenish yellow, the nervures
and all the exterior parts black, the female with a row of fulvous
spots parallel with the external margin, and not far from it; posterior
wings citron-yellow, having a dentated or macular black border in the
female, usually preceded by a curved line of spots of the same colour;
but in the male marked with only one or two black spots towards the
external border. Under side deep fulvous in both sexes, sprinkled with
black points and marked with short transverse dusky lines, which are
greatly most numerous in the female; head and thorax brown; abdomen
citron-yellow; antennæ black, the extremity of the club reddish.
It is a native of Amboina; we have seen no particular account of the
caterpillar, but it is no doubt similar to that of _T. Glaucippe_,
which is described by Dr. Horsfield as of a green colour with a white
lateral ray. It feeds on a species of _Capparis_.