PIERID^. 325 



219. Anthocharis Agoye. 



Anthopsyche Agoye, JFallgr., Lep. RJiop. Caffr., p. 15. 



Anthocharis Eosphorus, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc, 3rd Ser., 



[I, p. 



Exp. 1 in. 6 lin.— 1 in. 9i lin. 



S . White, irregularly sprinJcled with blackish scales : 

 with warm yellow-ochreous apical patch. Fore-wing : 

 nervures black from before middle ; no disco-cellular spot ; 

 apical patch small, exteriorly narrowly and faintly suffused 

 with brownish, interiorly bordered by an ill-defined blackish 

 stripe, nearly obsolete a little below its middle, reaching to 

 second median nervule, on hind-margin. Hind-wing : costal 

 and median nervules apparently black. Under-sidk. — 

 White, spotless. Fore-wing : a very faint indication of 

 apical patch. Hind-wing : costa edged with orange-yellow 

 near base. 



? . Similar ; but apical patch more fulvous, though 

 duller, externally more broadly and distinctly brownish- 

 bordered, internally with a wider but shorter stripe^ 

 brownish, and becoming obsolete on second discoidal nervule. 

 Fore-tving : a faint, minute dot at end of cell. Under- 

 side. — A faint, minute disco-cellular dot in each wing. 



This singular little species has the fore-wings markedly elongate. 

 Wallengren observes that it approaches A . subfasciata i\\ot& nearly than 

 any other cougener, but from that species it is abundantly distinct, seeming 

 much closer to A. Eris, Klug. 



The $ is described from a single, much damaged, specimen. Seventeen 

 examples were brought from the Interior by Mr. Bell. 



" Kaifraria (Wahlberg)."— Wallgr. 



Damaraland (J. A. Bell).— Coll. Tri. 



I do not give Anthocharis Phlegetonia, Roger, included 

 in Wallengren's list, because the latter author expresses 

 some doubt as to the specimen he notes being really refer- 

 able to that species. 



Genus THESTIAS. 



Thestias, Boisd. 



Pieris, Godt. 

 Imago. — Very closely allied to Anthocharis. Eyes larger ; 

 palpi shorter, less hairy, last joint short, less acuminate ; 

 antennce straighter, more gradually clavate. Fore-wings 

 with sub-median nervure more strongly curved before 

 middle. Hind-wings more or less produced at end of 

 third median nervule. 



