40 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



(5 species : Plgca, Boisd., Alha, Wallengr., Simana, Hopif., Charina, 

 Boisd., Spilleri^ Staud.) 



Group 3. — Calypso, Druiy, representative. 



Sexes very dissimilar. ^ white, with moderately broad white-spotted 

 black borders, better developed in fore-wings, which have also a con- 

 spicuous terminal disco-cellular black spot or oblique bar ; under side 

 with hind-wings and apex of fore-wings of some tint of yellow, with 

 similar blackish markings, but usually with black neuration and discal 

 spots. $ more or less tinged with yellow, especially in hind-wings 

 (which are sometimes deep ochre-yellow), and with all black markings 

 much enlarged. 



In one species (Mesentina, Cram.) the apex of fore-wings is rather 

 produced and pointed, and in two others (Gidica, Boisd., and Abyssinica, 

 Lucas) it is strongly so characterised. 



(7 species : Thysa, Hopff., Ogygia, Trim., Zochalia, Boisd., Mesentina, 

 Cram., Gidica, Godt., Abyssinica, Lucas, Scverina, Cram.) 



Group 4. — Daplidice, Linn., representative. 



Sexes much alike. White, with black mai'kings much as in last 

 section, but in ^ stronger, and including an additional inferior discal 

 spot in fore-wings. Under side with hind-wings and apex of fore-wings 

 varied with white and dull-greenish and yellow-tinged markings. 



In Da2)lidice and Hcllica, Linn., the third subcostal nervule of fore- 

 wings is wanting. 



( I species : Hcllica, Linn.) 



The caterpillars of this genus appear for the most part to be 

 attached to Cruciferm and Cap2Kiridece ; those of the European P. 

 Brassicce, Eapce, &c., and of the allied North- American P. olcracea, are 

 notorious for their injuries to cultivated cabbages, turnips, and related 

 plants. 



250. (1.) Pieris Saba, (Fabricius). 



$ Paptlio Saba, Fab., " Sp. Ins., p. 46, n. 199 (1781);" and Ent. Syst., 



iii. I, p. 201, u. 627 (1793). 

 5 Pajnlio Epaphia, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. pi. ccvii. ff. n, E (1782). 

 $ Papilio Hi/p>atia, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. xxxii. if. 5, 6 (1782). 

 $ Pieris Higinia, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 133, n. 45 (1819). 

 (j Pieris Orbona, Boisd., Faune Ent. Madag., &c., p. 18, pi. i, f. 3 (1833). 

 9 and (as $) Var. $ , Pieris Malatha, Boisd., loc. cit., if. 4, 5. 

 ^ ^ Pieris Orbona, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 497, n. 89 (1836). 

 c^ 9 Pieris Saba, Doubl, Gen. D. Lep., i. p. 46 (1846). 

 ^9 ,, „ Hopif., Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 353 (1862). 



(J ? „ „ Trim., Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. vii. pi. ix. if. 3, 4. 

 cJ ? , ? Var. Pieris Saba, Grandid., Hist. Phys., &c., Madag., xix., ii. 



Atlas I, pi. 36, it; 1-8 (1885). 



U.jcp. (d., ($) 2 in. 1-5 lin. ; ($) 2 in. i-sj Hn. 

 $ White ; fore-wing with a rather narroiv blackish apical and hind- 

 marginal border. Fore-iving : space between costa and costal nervure 



