40 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



nervule and inner-margin, the lower one smaller and fainter, 

 and forming a continuation of the upper one. Hind-wing : 

 a blackish band along hind-margin, commencing with a dark 

 mark on costa (adjoining spot on inner-margin of fore-wing), 

 becoming obsolete towards anal angle, and containing four or 

 five rather large, ovate white spots. UNDERSIDE. Similar to 

 $ . Fore-wing : only the upper of the two additional spots 

 present. Hind-wing : the clouding of the nervules wider 

 than in $ , in some strongly marked specimens so much so 

 as to leave only a row of small white spots in place of the 

 central white band. 



PUPA. Light violet-grey, dusted with black dots ; a pale* 

 yellow stripe on each side of the abdomen. 



(I found a single Pupa of P. Hellica, on December 10th, 

 1858, attached to the white-washed wall of a house at the 

 Knysna. When first discovered, its colour was yellow, 

 dusted with black dots ; the underside of the head and body, 

 and the wing-covers, pale-green ; and a violet stripe down 

 the back from head to tail. The butterfly emerged on 

 December 20th.) 



Open ground, fields, hill-sides, gardens, &c> 



September (e) June (e). 



An abundant species, and may be found daring nearly all the year. It is 

 a weak flier, compared with the forest -haunting species of Pieris, and is, in 

 general, very easily taken. In the summer, at Knysna, the numbers of this 

 species in the low-lying, meadow-laud quite enlivened the place. It is also 

 verv common around Cape Town. P. Hellica is very similar in appearance 

 to the European P. Daplidice. 



" Very abundant : all the year round." D'Urban, in litt. 



Cape Town. Mossel Bay. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 

 D'Urban, Natal (R. C. Jones). Coll. mihi. 



Port Elizabeth. Graham's Town. Queen's Town. King 

 William's Town. Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Butterworth, Kaffraria. Coll. H. Bowker. 



Cape of Good Hope. Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Cape of Good Hope. Interior of South Africa. Coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



" Bay of Port Natal." Boisd. 



25. Pieris Eriphia. 



Pieris Eriphia, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 513, n. 109. 

 Chenu,Enc.d'flist.Nat.Pap.,vA8.f. 130, 



Expands 2 in. 2 lin. 2 in. 4 lin. 



Yellowish-white, variegated wilh broad black stripes ; 

 about equal areas of black and white. Fore-wing : a broad, 

 black band from base occupies all discoidal cell, extending 

 considerably below and beyond it, and united by a narrower 



