34 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



Knysna. — Coll. milii. 



Port Elizabeth. King William's Town.— Coll. W. S. M. 

 D'Urban. 



Cape of Good Hope. Natal.— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Cape of Good Hope. Natal. Congo. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



20. Pieris Gidica. 



Pieris Gidica, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 131, n. 37. 



„ „ Boisd., Sp., Gen. Lep., I, p. 503, n. 97. 



„ „ „ App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 586. 



„ ,, E. Douhl., App. List Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 7. 



Expands 1 in. 11 lin. — 2 in. 4 lin. 



i . White ; ivith blackish markings. Fore-iving : apex 

 more produced and pointed than in any other South African 

 Pieris ; costa edged with blackish, close to base greyish ; 

 base slightly suffused with greyish, and with a pearly gloss ; 

 at extremity of discoidal cell, a black, angulated streak, 

 united to blackish costal edging, and thickest at its lower ex- 

 tremity ; on hind-margin a blackish band, rather wider at 

 apex, and ending on third median nervule, enclosing six 

 white spots, and united by blackish nervules to an inner, 

 blacker, more irregular, transverse band ending on second 

 median nervure. Hind-wing : from four to six moderately- 

 sized, sub-triangular black spots on hind-margin at extremi- 

 ties of nervules ; base greyish, with a slight pearly gloss ; 

 a few indistinct traces of the dark wavy streaks on under-side. 

 Under-side. — Fore-wing : similar in marking ; apex tinged 

 with pale-yellowish. Hind-wing : pale-yellowish, the ner- 

 vures marked blackly upon it ; costal, median, and sub- 

 median nervures clouded with blackish ; two transverse rows 

 of irregular, blackish, wavy streaks — one before, the other 

 beyond, middle, — the inner one much interrupted, and join- 

 ing the dark clouding on median nervure — the outer one 

 composed of thin lunular markings ; neither row extend- 

 ing beyond sub-median nervure ; hind-marginal spots larger 

 and somewhat squarer than on upperside, some of them 

 united by paler curved streaks from their inner extremities, 

 which touch the points of the lunular marks of the outer 

 transverse row ; costa edged at base with bright-yellow. 



? . Dull-yellowish ; blackish markings broader than in $ , 

 Fore-wing : apex not so produced as in $ ; base broadly 

 suffused with greyish, and glossed with a violet lustre; a 

 short, broad stripe of black from costa, at extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell ; inner band joined to hind-marginal one, which 

 has no pale spots ; both bands broader than in $ , the narrow 

 iSpace enclosed between the two composing three or foiir 



