yellow oranage tip

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WORLD OF BUTTERFLY....YELLOW ORANGE TIP....WATERCOLOUR....10CM*10CM....2013...(From a photograph of Nel Rodrigues)...Yellow Orange Tip, Ixias pyrene is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India. Dry-season brood. Male upperside: deep sulphur-yellow. Fore wing: base and basal half of costa thickly irrorated with black scales; apical half of the wing black, with an enclosed, large, irregularly triangular, orange-coloured patch, the apex of which is more or less broadly rounded and blunt; the orange colour extends into the apex of the cell bat is interrupted there by a black discocellular spot that spreads diffusely inwards and joins the black oblique bar which forms the base of the orange patch ; veins that traverse this latter, black. Hind wing: uniform with a little black scaling at extreme base; termen with a dusky-black somewhat narrow border (sometimes entirely absent) which decreases in width posteriorly. Underside: a darker yellow, sparsely irrorated with fusco-ferruginous short strigae and minute spots. Fore wing: base and posterior area broadly, with a whitish pale virescent tint; the strigae and minute spots most numerous towards the apex and along the termen; interspaces 4, 5, 6 and 8 with a curved sub-apical series of small, rounded, dull ferruginous spots and a similar spot on the discocellulars. Hind wing also with a ferruginous spot on the discocellulars, followed by a postdiscal series of similar spots in interspaces 3 to 8, all or most of them centred with white; the spots in interspaces 5, 6 and 8 the largest, those in 5 and 6 often coalescent. Antennae and thorax anteriorly dull ferruginous, thorax posteriorly and abdomen above fuscous black; head, thorax and abdomen beneath yellow. Wet-season brood.— Upperside in both male and female differs in the broader, more pronounced, black terminal edging to the hind wing, which is often remarkably broad, and in the female by the ground-colour whi