436 Dr. A. G. Butler on new African Prerine 
from New Caledonia in which the whole basal area of the 
primaries below is also orange, as in Bb. java; these are 
probably either reversional sports or the result of hybridism 
between the two species. The intermediate form differs 
in having several squamose subbasal orange patches on 
the under surface of the secondaries; the dry form has 
the cell and a series of patches below it white, the basi- 
costal patch and submarginal spots remaining orange. 
Belenots clarissa, Butl. 
The seasonal differences in this species much resemble 
those of Lb. peristhene, the orange spots of the under 
surface being replaced by sulphur yellow; we have all the 
phases in both sexes. 
Of B. picata we possess only a dry-season phase. 
Belenois java, Sparrm. 
B. deiopeia, Don., is the dry phase. We possess an 
intermediate from the New Hebrides; as the species 
occurs as far to the East as the Friendly Group, it 
certainly crosses the range of B. peristhene, and is quite 
likely to hybridize with it. 
Belenois raffrayi, Oberth. 
This is a wet-season form, and, without examining 
specimens of the allied &. margaritacea, I would not 
suggest that there may be more than affinity between 
them. It is quite possible that they may be perfectly 
distinct. 
Respecting B. gidica, much confusion has arisen ; I may 
begin by stating emphatically that 5. gidica is not the 
wet-season form of 6. abyssinica, and that B. allica of 
Oberthiir is not the B&B. allica of Boisduval, but is 
identical with B. abyssinica. Furthermore, there are two 
South-African species of the group, easily separated by 
any one who has an eye for form and pattern. 
Belenois gidica, Godt. 
Differs at a glance from B. gidica of authors in the lack of con- 
tinuity between the discocellular black spot of primaries with the 
costal borders, the distinctly narrower and blacker outer borders of 
the primaries, the fourth white spot on which opens without break 
into the ground-colour, so as to form a quadrate excision of the 
