402 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



Precis Pelasgis, p. 236. 



I received in May 1888 from Mr. A. D. Millar the cast skins of the larva 

 and pupa of this species. Mr. Millar found about a dozen of the larvae feeding 

 on cultivated plants of Coleus at D'Urhan, Natal, and reared two Pelasgis, 

 •which made their appearance on the 4th May. 



The larva is described by him as entirely dark-brown. As far as can be 

 judged from the skin cast before pupation, it does not differ much from that 

 of Odavia, except that the head is black, instead of yellowish-brown with 

 black marks, and the body-spines are shorter, more slender, and mostly yellowish 

 brown instead of black. 



The skin of the pupa strongly resembles those of P. Sesamus and P. Oda- 

 via, but is of a darker and browner tint, with the surface not so much granu- 

 lated, and the tubercular points smaller. Mr. Millar does not state whether 

 this pupa has any gilded ornamentation. 



Precis JElgiva, p. 240. 

 Fig. of S, Stand., Exot. Schmett., pi. 37 (1885). 



Precis Tiigcla, p. 241. 



Additional locality :— Zululand : Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 



Of three Zululand examples, two were captured by Captain Goodrich re- 

 spectively in November 1886 and January 1887. All three were $s and had 

 the discal band tinged with rufous, chiefly in its outer portion. The example 

 captured in January was of a more uniform pale ochre-yellow on the under side 

 than in the $ described in the text, most of the brown markings being much 

 fainter, except the common dark-brown streak. 



Salamis Anacardii, p. 244. 



Fig. of $ , Stand., Exot. Schmett., pi. 38 (1885). 



Additional locality :— Zululand : Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 



Genus Ceenis, p. 248. 



From notes and pencil outlines by Mr. W. D. Gooch, it is evident that 

 the larva of this genus (it is uncertain whether C. NataleJisis or C. Boisduvali 

 was the species reared from Mr. Gooch's specimens) is very similar to that of 

 Precis. The branched spines or horns borne on the head are, however, shown 

 as much shorter, and the dorsal branched spines of the third, fourth, fifth, 

 eleventh, and twelfth segments are much larger than the others. The second 

 (first thoracic) segment is small and has very short spines ; the thirteenth 

 (anal) segment has two subdorsal and two lateral, all four simple, unbranched, 



Crenis Boisduvali, p. 252. 

 Additional locality: — Zululand: Etshowe (J". Vachell). 



(except that the hind-margins are almost without dentation) and apparently under-side 

 colouring (though more uniform) of Archcsia, and the upper-side striping is represented as 

 more even and continuous tlian in that species, but the upper-side colouring is quite of the 

 character of that exhibited by P. Sesamus and P. Amestris. Uab. — " Masassi, East 

 Africa." 



