O'^ RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



rounded, black spots. Under-side of hind-ivings similar to 

 that of the $ , but with minute brown irrorations." — Boisd., 

 Sp, Gen. Lep. 



Open ground. 



Tebruary. 



I have only seen two specimens — both $ insects — of A. Theogone, — one of 

 my own capturing, the other in the collection of the British Museum. I am 

 inclined to think that this butterfly bears the same relation to Omphale, as 

 A. Antevippe does to Achine. It is so closely similar to Omphale, that the 

 total absence of black bands is the only real distinction, though a sufficiently 

 striking one, Boisduval's brief description of the $ insect might be taken 

 for one of the ? of Omphale, as nothing distinctive from that species is 

 mentioned in it. Here again, however, nothing but the actual capture of 

 the united sexes, or rearing them from the Larvse, can decide the case. 



Plettenberg Bay. — Coll. mihi. 



Cape of Good Hope.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



33. Anthocharis Antigone. 



Anthocharis Antigone, Boisd., MS. 



Expands 1 in. 5 lin. — 1 in. 6 lin. 



$ . White ; with orange apical patch. Fore-unng : orange 

 at apex not bordered with blackish on its inner edge, but out- 

 wardly with a black border indenting the orange sharply and 

 deeply; a dusky-blackish band along inner-margin, ending 

 beyond middle in a darker spot ; no spot at extremity of 

 discoidal cell. Hind-wing : a rather broad, dusky-blackish, 

 ill-defined band along hind-margin, more or less intersected 

 with whitish. Under-side. — Fore-wing : base suffused with 

 sulphur - yellow ; apical marking pale-ochreous, inwardly 

 orange-ochreous ; spot ending band on inner-margin distinct ; 

 a small disco-cellular dot. Hind-wing : whitish ; disco-cel- 

 lular spot orange, with a black dot externally ; traces of a 

 sinuate, angulated, darker stripe, as in several allied species. 



? . Fore-ioing : black markings broader and darker ; a 

 blackish, transverse streak dividing apical orange patch ; base 

 suffused with blackish ; disco-cellular spot distinct. Hind- 

 wing : slightly tinged with yellowish ; an angulated blackish 

 band as in ? of A. Achine. Under-side. — Similar to $ , 

 but dfieper in tint. Fore-wing : apical patch redder ; inner- 

 marginal band more distinct. Hind-wing : dull ochreous- 

 yellow, irrorated with grey ; angulated band usually well 

 defined. 



Var. ? . — In the collection of the British Museum. — 

 Apical patch all dusky -blackish, without a trace of orange. 

 Under-side. — Fore-wing: broadly suffused from base with 

 sulphur-yellow. 



Interior of South Africa. Zoolu. West Africa. — Coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



