14 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



The species inhabiting South Africa are prevalent on the eastern 

 side, and three of them, viz., Biigitta, Zoii, and Regidaris, penetrate as 

 far as the western central districts of the Cape Colony, but are scarce 

 there. 



240. (1.) Terias Brigitta, (Cramer). 



$ Papilio Brigitta, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. cccxxxi. ff. b, c (1782). 

 Pieris Brigitta, Godt , Ent. Metli., ix. p. 135, n. 53 {1819). 

 1$ 5 Terias Brigitta, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 676, n. 38 (1836). 



„ ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 80, n. 52 (1862). 



Terias Rahel, Hopff. [part], Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 368 (1862). 

 $ Terias Candace, Fekl., Reise d. j^ovara, Lep., ii. p. 213, n. 228 



(1865). 

 $ (as $) Terias Brigitta, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 16 (1884). 



Ex2^. cd., ($) I in. 5^-7 lin. ; ($) i in. 5-9 lin. 



^ Bright gamhoge-7/ellow ; fore-iving with a broad black border, 

 hind-u'ing ivith a very narroiu one, both dentate internally on ncrvides. 

 Fore-wing : base very narrowly speckled with blackish ; on costa close 

 to base some blackish speckling, soon giving place to a narrow costal 

 black border, which extends to about middle and thence rapidly widens, 

 to become very broad apically, whence it gradually narrows along hind- 

 margin to posterior angle ; hind-marginal ly this border is more or 

 less completely interrupted, between first median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure, by the yellow ground-colour ; the yellow interrupt- 

 ing streak more or less obscured with blackish specks ; on costal edge, 

 near apex, three minute pale-yellowish inter-nervular marks indenting 

 the black border. Hind-wing : hind-marginal narrow border com- 

 mencing very faintly at extremity of costal nervure, widening about 

 extremity of second subcostal nervule, and thence narrowing to a point 

 at extremity of first median nervule (in one specimen this border is 

 extremely narrow, and becomes merely macular on the nervules in its 

 lower portion) ; inner margin as far as submedian nervure bordered 

 with pale sulphur-yellowish ; costa also narrowly edged with that 

 tint ; base very narrowly and (usually) faintly speckled with blackish. 

 Cilia yellow, irregularly tinged with reddish (especially in fore- wing). 

 Under side. — Rather dullish faU-ycllow^ with the hind-toing {chiefly 

 marginally) and apical border of fore-wing more or less tinged ivith 

 creamy-reddish, for the most part very minutely speckled with fuscous 

 atoms. Fore-wing : a very faint, slender, terminal disco-cellular striola, 

 more or less interrupted in its middle portion ; a faint (sometimes 

 obsolete), transverse, short, sub-apical reddish-grey streak, from near 

 costa to below second radial nervule. Hind-wi7ig : a minute fuscous 

 spot close to base below costal nervure ; a transverse row of three 

 rather larger reddish-grey spots near base, of which the middle one is 

 in discoidal cell ; a double very slender terminal disco- cellular striola, 

 more distinct and reddish than that of fore-wing ; beyond middle, 



