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PALE CLOUDED YELLOW.
the ground-colour is sulphur yellow, with a black central spot,
and an irregular broad band, edged with light pink on the
outside margin, in which is an interrupted scries of spots of
the same hue as the ground-colour of the wings. The hind
wings have a light orange-coloured central spot, and the margin
at the corner is partially and irregularly bordered with black,
edged with light pink.
In the female the ground-colour inclines more to very light
cream-colour: underneath, the fore wings are pale yellow, the
outside corner orange yellow; a row of blackish transverse
marks runs parallel to, but at some distance from, the outside
margin. The central spot is black, yellow in the centre. The
hind wings are orange yellow, with a large silvery spot, accom­
panied by a small eye-like dot, surrounded with reddish. There
is a row of small blackish spots between these and the hind
corner, round the edge of the wing.
The caterpillar is of a velvet green colour, with two stripes
of yellow on the sides, and black dots on the segments.
The chrysalis is green, with a yellow line on the side.
Varieties of this insect have occurred: one is described as of
a whitish colour; another with the rich sulphur band that
divides the broad black margin at the outside corner of the
fore wings, uninterrupted, and the central spot of intense
blackness; the hind wings more than ordinarily rounded at the
margins, very faintly marked with black, and the central spot
or spots scarcely discernible: the size of the insect smaller
than usual, and its whole contour different. Another was seen
which, as well as could be observed, was of a very rich sul­
phur-colour, and the outside corner margins, and central spot
of a rather deep red.
The figure of the female is taken from a specimen in my
own cabinet.
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