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wing-cilia are pinkisli-rcd. Thcro is in many of llie decper-orango 

 species a beautiful ros}- and violaceous gloss, bettor shown in the $. 

 The $ is constantly paler and duller than the $, and in the largest 

 (Edusa) group alone possesses yellow spots in the border of the fore- 

 Avino-s ; she also, in the same group, usually presents a second white 

 or very pale form, with in some instances individuals intermediate 

 between this and her normal colouring. In some of the Arctic forms 

 greenish colouring pervades the upper as well as the under surface 

 of the wings ; and the blackish border is very faint, and in the ^ 

 evanescent.-^ 



In rJiopaloccra Africce AustraUs I included, on what appeared 

 to be good authority, C. ILjale (Linn.), in the South-African list ; but, 

 as no properly authenticated specimen has ever since been brought to 

 notice in any part of the country, I feel convinced that some error 

 (perhaps the old one of confusing Ilyah with the pale form of the $ 

 Eihisa or Ulcdra) must have led to Mr. Layard's belief that he and 

 other collectors had taken Ilijcdc in South Africa. It is at the same 

 time to be noticed that M. C. Oberthiir records this species as among 

 the late Marquis Antinori's captures in 1879-81 in Shoa, Abyssinia. 



294. (1.) Colias Electra, (Linuffiiis). 



Papilio Electra, Linn., Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 764, n. loi (1767). 



S 9 Papilio Ilyale, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. cccli. ff. e, f [ (^ ], g, 11 [ ? ], 



(1782). 

 Var. ? Pajnlio Pahmo, Cram., ojh cit., pi. cccxl. ff. a. b. 



(J 9 9 Var. Colias Eledra, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 102, n. 39 (1S19). 



S 9 9 Var. Colias Electra, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 637, 11. 3 (1836). 



^ Colias Edtisina, Feld., " Wien. Ent. Monatschr., iv. p. 100, n. 55 

 (i860)." 



S 9 9 Vak. Colias Electra, Trim., Ehop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 71, n. 47 (1862). 

 Larva and Pupa, Trim., oj). cit., ii. p. 332, pi. i, IF. 2, 2a (1866). 



Rc2). al, Q) I in. 9 lin.— 2 in. 2 lin. ; (?) I in. S^ lin.— 2 in. 

 3 liu. 



^ BcejJ clirome-ycUow, inclinivg to orange, glossed ivitli a ]_nnk lustre 

 in certain lights ; with hroad hlacJv hands on hind-margins. Fore-wing : 

 base very narrowly blackish; an ovate, usually rather narrow, black 

 spot at extremity of discoidal cell; hind-marginal band broadest at 

 apex, irregularly dentate on nervules on its internal edge, dusted with 

 pale-yellow scales, some of the nervules crossing it near apex being also 

 pale-yellow, Ilind-tcing : base blackish, extending along median and 

 submedian nervures ; costa and inner-margin pale yellowish-green ; a 

 large, rounded, deep orange disco-cellular spot ; hind-marginal black 



1 The opposite extreme in this last character is reached in the very remarkable species 

 C. WislotU, Staudr., from Samarkand, the 6 of which has the black border in both wings 

 occupying all the outer area from a little beyond the end of the discoidal cell. (See Berl. 

 L'ntom. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 166, t. ii. H. g S , 10 ?.) 



