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Great Southern White
Butterfly.--The upper side of the wings, depicted in the plate, requires no comment. On the under side the black marginal markings of the primaries reappear as pale-brown markings. The hind wing is pale yellow or grayish-saffron, crossed by an ill-defined pale-brown transverse band of spots, and has the veins marked with pale brown, and interspersed between them pale-brown rays on the interspaces.
Early Stages.--What we know of these is derived principally from Abbot through Boisduval, and there is opportunity here for investigation.
The species has a wide range through tropical America, and is not uncommon in the Gulf States.