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the males having a brush of hairs between the anal claspers, there 

 were a number of species in which the females also had the last seg- 

 ment of the abdomen furnished with a similar brush ; the species of 

 the latter group are confined to Tropical America, Madagascar, and 

 Southern Africa, and to them I give the name of Glutophrissa : though 

 in other respects so like Appias, that it is hardly worth while to char- 

 acterize the genus at length, I believe it to be a perfectly natural 

 group, the whole of the species of which exhibit considerable uni- 

 formity in form and pattern. 



Gltjtophrissa, ffen. nov. 



Affine Appiadi, abdomen autem feminarum subtus penicillo curvato instrnctum, 

 vena quoque alarum anticarum radialis superior cellulcB discoidali plus approxi- 

 mata. Gen. typ., Q-. Poeyi. 

 The named species in the Museum collection stand as follows : — ■ 



1. Glutophrissa Poeyi, Butl. St. Domingo, Honduras, Quito. 



2. ,, 3Iolpadia, Hiibn. Jamaica. 

 Margarita, Hiibn. Panama. 

 albunea, Dalm. Brazil (Rio Janeiro). 

 Drusilla, Godart. Honduras. 

 Castalia, Fabric. Brazil. 



fiavida, $ , Mabille. Madagascar. 



Saba ( (J = matntd), Fabr. Aslianti, Old Calabar, S. Leone. 

 Malatha, Boisd. Madagascar. 



Allied to the last two species is one from Natal, which appears not to have been 

 named, but which I believe to be a constant type, perfectly distinct from the Mala- 

 gasy and West Coast forms ; at any rate, it would be surprising to find that a 

 southern form exhibited great variation in pattern, whilst its western representative 

 remained absolutely constant in this respect ; I have seen a considerable number of 

 examples of G. Saba from Old Calabar, and the differences between them were quite 

 insignificant. Several mistakes have been made in sexing G. Saba, its true male is 

 the Pieris matuta of Doubleday, which comes in every collection with it. P. orbona 

 (which has been supposed to be its male by Messrs. Mabille, Saalmiiller, and others) 

 is a Pinacopteryx, close to P. Larima and P. alba, and, doubtless, has a female of 

 the Gonoris rapcB type, like all the other species of Pinacopteryx. 



British Museum : 



February, 1887. 



Early appearance of Anthophora pilipes, Fab. — On the 25th of this month I 

 saw a male of this bee flying round the yellow crocus in a garden in Wotton-under- 

 Edge. On the 27th I saw several of the same sex on the same flowers, and boxed 

 one for the sake of the early date. Last year the first seen was on April 3rd, which 

 is late. The usual time of appearance here is about the middle of March. No 

 doubt, should the present sunny weather continue, it will be out in numbers in a few 

 days. — R. C. L. Peekins, Lisle House, Wotton-under-Edge : February 28th, 1887. 



