128 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



outer pari of apical patch of forc-ioing more or less tinged ivitli pinhisli- 

 creamy, irrorated (and in parts shortly striolated) with grey ; in hind- 

 wing a more or less consincno us fuscous or dusky longitudinal ray cdong 

 disco-cellidar fold to a little hcfore hind - mar g in ; in fore-wing the inner- 

 marginal streak is usually represented by a greyish mark at base and 

 a faint discal spot, but is sometimes wanting altogether. 



$ Under-side colour duller than in $, and more closely and generally 

 hatched and irrorated in Mnd-toing, so that disco-cellular dusky ray 

 is less distinct or sometimes hardly distinguishable ; costal and discal 

 markings of hind-wing also diffused, and not, or but little, red-tinged. 



(Rah. — North of Cape Colony, Western Basutoland, Griqualand 

 West, Transvaal, Eastern Tropical Interior, and Damaralaud.) 



I was enabled by the kindness of Mr. Chr. Aurivillius to examine 

 a type specimen of his Deidamioides, a ^ in which the disco-cellular 

 ray of the under side of the hind-wings was not very marked. In the 

 South- African Museum and in my own collection there are several 

 Transvaal ,^ s in which the under-side colouring is intermediate between 

 this variety and the typical Evenina $. Casta, of Gerstiicker, founded 

 on a single $ from Lake Jipe in East Africa, in some respects is very 

 near Deidamioides, but the white under side of the liind-wings is quite 

 like that of Evenina $, and I do not think that it can be separated 

 from the latter. The South- African Museum possesses three unusually 

 small ^ s of the variety from Damaralaud, expanding only I in. 7 lin. 

 across the wings; and some still smaller ^s {ex}). al. I in. 4—5 lin.) 

 and a i^ {cxp. al. i in. 5 lin.) were captured in Namaqualand by Mr. 

 L. Peringuey. The pinkish tint of the under side of the hind-wings 

 is faint in these dwarfed examples, and its irroration sparse and 

 limited. 



Evenina ^ is highly variable both in size and markings. The 

 largest and most strongly marked specimens I have seen are two^ taken 

 by Mr. J. L, Fry at Tati on 8th January I 8 87, — the black borders, 

 stripes, and spots being throughout larger and darker, especially the inner- 

 marginal stripe of the fore-wings, and the hind-marginal spots of the 

 hind-wings. The smallest and most faintly marked (excluding the 

 Variety A.) are from Bechuanaland and Damaralaud. The colour of 

 the apical patch is very near that shown by the European Anthocharis 

 Cardamines $, but in fine examples exhibits a slight pink gloss. 

 Evenina ^ varies very much less than the $, and chiefly in the extent 

 and intensity of the basal and hind-marginal blackish of the hind- 

 wings. Two $s from Tati which accompanied the ^s just mentioned are, 

 however, remarkable for the corresponding great development of its dark 



^ Another specimen is rather below the average size, and distinctly but not heavily 

 marked ; while two others hold an intermediate position, but are rather larger than the 

 average. I have examined the types of Swinhoe's Sipylus from Zanzibar in the British 

 Museum. The S is inseparable from the larger darker specimens of S Evenina just men- 

 tioned, though it is somewhat more heavily marked ; while the ? is plainly referable to 

 Quvisa, Wallengr. 



