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blackish clouding of basal area ; orange-red of apical patcli consider- 

 ably wider than violet in ^, sometimes more or less stained with 

 crimson in parts, divided into five less distinctly, and traversed mesially 

 by a series of five black spots, — the lowest of which is united with 

 inner black border of patch between second and third median nervules ; 

 inner black border of patch broad, rather diffused, irregularly excavated 

 between nervules ; outer border broad, even, only slightly greyish-tinged 

 outwardly, continued to posterior angle. Hind-rving : basal clouding 

 variable in density and extent, but usually darker and more developed 

 than in $ ; rather beyond middle on costa a more or less pronounced 

 black mark (sometimes broad and enlarged inwardly) commences a 

 very imperfect and short narrow discal ray ; nervular black terminal 

 spots enlarged and confluent into a broad continuous hind-marginal 

 border, emitting acute nervular dentations inwardly. Under side. — 

 Hind-iviiuj and aincal area of fore-wing very pcde grcyish-yelloiv, faintly 

 stippled ivith grey scales and short lineola;. Fore-iving : basal clouding 

 much fainter, mixed with white ; apical orange-red very faintly repre- 

 sented, but the spots traversing it distinct, more or less sagittiform, 

 the series having an additional (sixth) spot between second and first 

 median nervules, and its two uppermost spots ferruginous ; large lower 

 discal spot considerably smaller than on upper side, and divided longi- 

 tudinally by white fold ; two or three small inter-nervular hind-marginal 

 fuscous spots at and near posterior angle. Hind-wing : disco-cellular 

 spot indistinct ; discal macular ray ferruginous, well-marked as far as 

 third median nervule, and sometimes (with three widely separated spots) 

 beyond it ; hind-marginal border faintly indicated, by a greyer shade. 



Second (JJimorphic) Form of $. — Like $ just described, except in 

 apical patch of fore-wing, which is considerably narrower, and Mack, 

 traversed mesially by a scries of five rounded wJiite spots, of which the 

 first is much the smallest, and the fifth much smaller than the inter- 

 mediate three. 



Variety A. — {$) Exp. al., 2 in. 3-4 lin. 



Basal irroration much more restricted in both wings. Fore-wing : 

 apical violet considerably narroiver, its uppermost division much re- 

 duced, and its lowest (between third and second median nervules) 

 either a mere trace or obsolete. Under side. — Black ncuration almost 

 as ivell developed as on up)])er side, but finer, — in hind-wing (and to a 

 much less extent in fore-wing) thickened to form small spots along 

 hind-margin. Hind-iving : transverse discal ray well marked, blackish. 



(^rtZ>.— D'Urban County, Natal.) 



It is not practicable to determine with certainty the exact form of 

 $ upon which Godart {lac. cit.) founded his Pieris lone, his description 

 being too brief, and no locality being given ; but as he describes the 

 under side as white, and as it is improbable that he should have had 

 before him in the year i 8 1 8 any of the more locally restricted southern 

 forms, I consider it judicious to regard as the tyi'-ical lone the form I 



