44 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS, 



replaced by three large, connected whitish spots ; the black 

 markings broader and less defined' at edges than in ordinary 

 specimens. 



The above-mentioned variety of the female is noticed, rather doubtfully, 

 by Boisduval (in his Appendix to M. Delegorgue's Travels) as one which 

 he supposes " ought to be considered as a variety of the female of lone" 

 After carefully comparing the specimen in the British Museum with the 

 orange-tipped examples, no doubt remains in my miud — knowing the 

 constant tendency of the species of this Genus to vary in this respect — of 

 its being the real lone. 



Natal.— Coll. mihi ; Coll. S. A. Mus. ; Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Natal; common throughout." — Boisd.,App.VoydeDeleg. 

 " Nubia, Abyssinia." — Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep. 



27. Anthocharis Danae. 



Papilio Danae, Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 476, n. 144. 



„ Eborea, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 352, f. C, D, K. F. 



Aphrodite Eborea, Hiihn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 94. 



Pieris Danae, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX. p. 124, n. 20. 



Anthocharis Danae, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I. p. 570, n. 16. 

 „ „ Doubl. Westw. Heivits., Gen. Diurn. 



[Lep., pi. 7, f. 2. 

 „ „ Boisd, App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 587. 



Callosune Danae, Horsf. 8^ Moore, Cat. Lep. E. L. C. 



[Mus., p. 69. 



Expands 1 in. 4 lin. — 2 in. 



$ . White ; with very large, broad, crimson-red apical 

 marking. Fore-wing : costa black- edged ; basal portion 

 suffused with dark-grey to beyond middle of discoidal cell ; 

 red patch at apex glossed with violet in some lights, with 

 a narrow black border externally, radiating for a little dis- 

 tance on nervules ; internal border broad, blackish, ill-defined 

 on its inner edge, extending to anal angle, and touching 

 extremity of discoidal cell, where there is a lunular black 

 spot ; between third median nervmle and sub-median nervule, 

 almost touching internal border of red patch, a very faint, 

 indistinct blackish mark. Hind-wing : broadly suffused with 

 dark -grey as far as extremity of discoidal cell (where there 

 is a faint orange spot), and also as far as anal angle, where it 

 is paler; on costa, beyond middle, a transverse, short, blackish 

 streak, from which a broad blackish band, generally divided 

 by whitish nervules, extends along hind-margin, narrowing 

 to anal angle. Under-side. — Fore-iving : white ; basal 

 grey paler than on upper-side, its outer edge defined by 

 a blackish streak; disco-cellular spot larger and roimder 

 than above ; apical patch faint ochreous, marked on its 

 inner side by a sinuate row of six blackish spots, all but 



