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219. Anthocharis Agoye. 



Anthopsyche Agoye, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 15. 

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



ffi.P- 

 Exp. 1 in. 6 lin. 1 in. 9| lin. 



. White, irregularly sprinkled 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-SIDE. 

 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-wing : a faint, minute dot at end of cell. UNDER- 

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



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

 Wallengren observes that it approaches A . subfasciata more nearly than 

 any other congener, 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. 



" Kaffraria (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 ; 

 antenna 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. 



