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with a blark streak inferiorly edfjed with greenish yellow ; inner marginal 

 edge of wing-cases al o defined with blackish. On each side of abdomen 

 a yellowish-white stripe; below this, touching hind-margin of wing-covers, 

 a short abruptly-ending black streak. 



The Larvae were found in May, feeding on Vicia sativa (Lucerne). The 

 Pupa-state continued from eigliteen to twenty-three days, but this was in 

 the beginning of winter. The Larva appears very different from tliat 

 briefly described by VVestwood as the caterpillar of C. Edusa, so that 

 Electro's claim as a distinct species seems tolerably established. 



Terias Rahel. — P. 76. — Syn. (secund. HopfFer). " Terias 

 Drona, Horsf., Boisd. Papilio Brigitta, Cram. ? Terias 

 pulchella, Boisd." Terias Zoe, Hpfr., Peter s Reise, 8fC., 

 Ins., p. 369, pi. 23, f. 10, 11. 



On the 24th April, 1863, Mr. Bowker forwarded me a number of speci- 

 mens of len'as, among which were specially marked, as taken in copul^, 

 an ordinary $ Rahel and a ? Brigitta. This makes it probable that 

 Hopffer is tigiit in holding the two forms as one species. Wallengrrn 

 gives T. Drona as Soutli African, hut his sliort description applies tho- 

 rnuglily to Liahel. Hopffer (see above) considers Drona, a variety of 

 Rahel, stating that it only rtiffers in the more sharply-defined under-side 

 markings. Hnpffer's T. Zoe certainly is nothing more than the $ of 

 Rahel, rather less densely irrnrated than usual. He distinguishes the 

 jnsect by its " more rounded " fore-wings, while Wallengren, strangely 

 rnough, states that he would have taken Zoe for a Var. of Brir/itta, were 

 it not for the " much more acute apex and anal angle " of fore-wings ! 



" September to April " — (W. D.). Hab. Bashee River. 

 M Very common in summer and autumn all over the Trans- 

 kei Territory in open grassy country " — (J. H. B.). 



T. Desjardinsii. — P. 78. — Sy7i. T. Desjard., Boisd., Sp. 

 Gen., I, p. 671. JJab, Bashee River (J. H. B.). 



Dr. Roisduval observes that this species is perhaps but a variety of T- 

 Floricola, Boisd., which itself, he thinks, may be only a variety of T- 

 Hecahe, Linn. As regards Floricola being a variety of Hecahe, I am 

 inclined to agree with him, but the shorter, acutely-apexed fore-wintrs and 

 more or less subangulated hiud-wings seem to separate Desjardinsii from 

 both these species. 



T. Brigitta.— y. 80. — IJah. Umquabaaba River, Natal 

 (R. C. J.) ; Bashee River (J. H. B.). 



Danais Eckeria.—F. 86.— Hab. Bashee River (J. II. B.) ; 

 Umquabaaba River, Natal (R. C. J.). 



D. Chrysip'pus. — P. 88. — Hab. Genadendal (G. II.); 

 Bashee River (J. H. B,). «' Querimba "— Hpfr. 



Specimens of this abundant speeies not rarely occur, in which the f/?'sc 

 i)f hind-ioings is tmich svffn.scd ivith tchite. Mr. Bowker writes tliat 

 individuals so suffused were very common in Kaffraria in March, 1863. 



Jcrcea Horfa.— F. 92.— Hab. Genadendal (G. H.); Bashee 



River (J. H. B.); Damara Land (C. J. A. and J. A. B.)-. 



