74 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



^ SlniiJar to $, but ivitk additional Uach markings. Fore-icing : 

 costa with a greyish border as far as disco-cellular band, which is much 

 broader than in $ ; hind-marginal band slightly broader and blacker 

 than in ^, — its third white spot always quite enclosed in the black ; 

 two additional blackish spots near posterior angle, between first median 

 nervnle and inner margin, the lower one much smaller and fainter, and 

 forming a continuation of the upper one. Rind-wing : a blackish band 

 along hind-margiu, commencing with a dark mark on costa (adjoining 

 spot on inner margin of fore-wing), becoming obsolete towards anal 

 angle, and containing four or five rather large oyate white spots. 

 Under side. — Fore-icing : only the uj^j^er of the two additional blackish 

 spots present. Hind-iving : the clouding of the nervules wider than 

 in ^, in some strongly marked specimens so much so as to leave only a 

 row of white spots in place of the central white band. 



A dwarfed $, taken at Burghersdorp by Dr. Kannemeyer, measures 

 ouly I in. 3-^ lin. across the expanded fore-wings. 



Larva. — Light-green, darker on inferior surface. A median dorsal 

 violaceous stripe ; and on each side a broader, less defined, deeper- 

 greenish stripe mixed with violaceous, succeeded by a conspicuous pale- 

 yellowish spiracular band. On each segment numerous black dots 

 arrano-ed in four transverse lines on back and sides (other scattered 

 black dots on lower part of sides), and also four orange spots, situated 

 anteriorly, two of which immediately precede the spiracles. Head 

 black-dotted ; spiracles conspicuously black. A few short hairs about 

 body generally, numerous short hairs on head. 



" Food-plants near Grahamstown, Sisijmlrium Capcnse (and pro- 

 bably S. h/ratum) and Lciyidium sativum." — ]\I. E. Barber. 



Pupa. — Above yellow, sprinkled with black dots, beneath pale- 

 green. A median dorsal pale-violet stripe ; narrow thoracic ridge 

 marked with a red line. 



The first pupa I observed (found on loth December) changed in 

 colouring, four days afterwards, to light violet-grey, with a pale-yellow 

 stripe along each side of the abdomen ; the imago did not appear 

 before the 20th December. The second pupa I reared retained its 

 yellow and green colours throughout from the 24th April to the 8th 

 May, when the imago emerged. One pupa was attached to the wall 

 of a house, the other to a grass stem. 



A very near ally of Hcllica was brought from Kilima-Njaro by 

 Mr. H. H. Johnston, and has lately been described and figured as 

 SyncUoH Johnstonii by Mr. P. Crowley (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, 

 p. 35, pi. iii. ^, fF. I, 3 ; ?, f. 2). I made notes on two ^s and a 

 ^ of this form in the British Museum collection (October 1886). It 

 is at once distinguishable by its longer wings, the fore-wings being 

 also acuter apically ; and the ^ has the black border of the fore-wings 

 on the upper side internally unbroken, with the enclosed white spots 

 smaller than in Hcllica. On the under side, the neuration is more 



