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Localities of Tcracolus Vesta. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts.— Mouth of Tugela River (/. //. Bowker.—^wh- 



typ. and Var. A.). Greytown.— Typ. Weciieii County (/. M. 



Hutchinson. — Typ. and Var. A.). Between Tugela and Mooi 



Rivers (/. H. Bowlier. — Typ.). 

 O. Swaziland.— (The late E. G. Buxton.— Tj]). and Var. A.). 

 II. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenro Marques (3Irs. Monteiro. — Typ. and Sub- 



typ-)- 



K. Transvaal- Eydenburg District {T. Aijres.—T)-\\ and ^Var. A.). 

 Limpopo River {F. C. Selous), 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. AVestern Coast. — Damaraland (/. A. Bell. — Typ.). 



I. Eastern Coast. — " Querimba."— Hopffer. — Sub-typ. and Var. A. 

 " j\Iombasa." — Staudinger. 



bi. Eastern Interior.— Lotsani River, Tchakani Vley, and Tati (F. 0. 

 Selous. — Typ.). Makloutse River (J. L. Fry. — Typ.). Zam- 

 besi {Rev. H. i?ty«:^e//.— Typ.);— "Tette."— Hopffer. 



B. North Tropical. 



hi. Eastern Interior.—" Abyssinia." — Reiche. " Shoa {Antinori)." 

 — Oberthiir. 



Genus COLIAS. 



Colias, Fabricius, " Illiger's Mag., vi. p. 284 (1S07)." 



„ Latreille, Enc. Meth., ix. p. 10 (18 19). 

 Eurymus, Swainson, Zool. Illustr., 2nd Ser., ii. pi. 60 (1S31-32). 

 Colias, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 633 (1836). 



„ Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep., i. p. 72 (1847). 



„ Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 70 (1862). 



,, (revision), Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 133, and 

 1884, p. I. 



Imago. — Head of moderate size, scaly, densely clothed with hair, 

 especially frontally, where there is a large projecting tuft ; iialpi rather 

 short, compressed, densely scaled, clothed beneath with moderately long 

 fine hairs ; basal and middle joints about equal in length, terminal 

 joint extremely small and short, not acute ; antcnnw short, stout, 

 straight, with a very gradually formed cylindrical club, truncate at tip. 



Tliorax rather stout, densely clothed with hair, which is long and 

 silky above (especially posteriorly). Fore-wings rather truncate ; costa 

 almost straight beyond basal curve ; apex marked, but not acute ; 

 costal nervure very stout, ending considerably beyond middle ; subcostal 

 nervure four-branched, — first nervule long, given off not far beyond 

 middle of discoidal cell, — second not so long, given off at, or a little 

 (or, rarely, a good way) beyond, extremity of discoidal cell, — third 

 short, ending on costa just before apex, — fourth short, ending on hind- 

 margin a little below apex ; upper radial united to subcostal nervure. 



