54 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban, " Lower Umkomazi." — J. H. Bowker. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Greytown. Estcourt (/, M. Ilutcliinson). 

 Colenso ( W. Morant). 



F. Zululand.— Coll. Biit. Mus. 



256. (7.) Pieris Spilleri, Staudinger. 



c? 9 Pieris Spilleri, Staud., Entom. Nachrichten, 1884, iv. p. 52; and 



Exot. Schmett. i. pi. 18 (1884) [S\ 

 c? ? ,, ,, Spiller, Entomologist, 1884, p. 62. 



1 Var. ^ , Pieris Gallenga, H. G. Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 5tli 

 Ser., xix. p. 62 (1887). ^ 



Exp. al., (^) I in. 7-8 lin. ; (?) 1 in. 6-S lin. 



$ Bright sulphur-yellow ; fore-iviiig with a narrow fuscous apical 

 edging. Forc-xoing : base very narrowly but strongly marked with 

 fuscous ; costa very thinly edged with a black line ; ajjical edging 

 beginning a little before apex, and continued along part of hind- 

 margin by three nervular spots, of which the last, smallest, and least 

 distinct is on second median nervule. Hind-n-ing : without marking 

 of any kind. Under side. — Almost uniform sulj^hur-yellow, rather 

 paler than on nppcr side (especially towards inner margin of fore-wing) ; 

 or %oith the hind-wing and apiccd area of fore-wing of a slightly deeper 

 yellow. Himl-wing : on disc some indistinct or all but obsolete traces 

 of small faint, fuscous spots, most apparent between median nervules, 



$ Yelloio less h right tlcan in $. Fore-wing : costa not with a 

 bounding black line, but with a pale-reddish tinge, especially near 

 base ; apical hind-marginal border duller and less distinct. Ukder 

 SIDE. — Hind-ioing and costal and. apical hind-marginal area of fore- 

 wing ijale ochreous-yelloiv ivith a slight reddish tinge. Fore-wing : base 

 very slightly tinged with orange-yellow, extending along costa. Hind- 

 wing : costa at base thinly edged with orange-yellow ; four discal 

 spots better marked than in ^, but very indistinct. 



Second form of ^. — Fore-iving dull-whitish; hind-iuing clull- 

 yelloivish. Fore-wing : base with a very faint yellowish basal suffusion ; 

 apical hind-marginal border much fainter and duller than i7i ^, hut 

 imceh broader {especially at ajjex), and i^rolonged as far as posterior angle. 

 Hind-uring : a pale orange-yellow suffusion from base, filling discoidal 

 cell and extending for some distance below and beyond it ; hind- 

 margin sulphur-yellow ; a row of 5—6 indistinct small fuscous spots 

 at extremities of nervules. Under side. — Faler and clearer than upper 

 side ; both wings white, edged cdmost throughout with sidphur-yellow, 

 which is hrigldest on costa near base and in fore-wing about apex. Fore- 



1 Mr, H, G. Smith kindly showed me two Delagoa Bay specimens presenting the pecu- 

 liarities on which he afterwards founded the new species Gallenrja. They were smaller than 

 usual [exp. al. i in. 4J lin.), with the apical edging of fore-wing reddish-brown and very 

 narrow, and the under side of the hind-wing and of tlie apex of the fore-wing tinged with 

 reddish. 



