S33 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALI3. 



wih a black streak inferiorly edged 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 eighteen to twenty-three days, but this was in 

 the beginning of winter. The Larva appears very different fiom that 

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

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



Terias Rahel.P. 76.*%. (secund. Hopffer). " Terias 

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

 pulchella, Boisd." Terias Zoe, Hpfr., Peter s Reise, $c. t 

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



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

 mens of Terias, among which were specially marked, as taken in copuld, 

 #n ordinary $ Rahel and a $ Brigitta. This makes it probable that 

 Hopffer is right in holding the two forms as one species." Wallengren 

 gives T. Drona as South African, but his short description applies tho- 

 roughly to hahel. Hopffer (see above) considers Drona a variety of 

 flahel, stating that it only differs in the more sharply-defined under-side 

 markings. Hopffer^s T. Zoe certainly is nothing more than the $ of 

 ftahel, rather less densely irrorated than usual. He distinguishes the 

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

 enough, states that he would have taken Zoe for a Var. of Brigitta, were 

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



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

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

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



. Desjardinsii. P. 7&,Syn. T. Desjarti., Boisd. , Sp. 

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



Dr. Boisduval observes that this species is perhaps but. a variety of T* 

 Floricola, Boisd., which itself, he thinks, may be only a variety of T' 

 Hecdbe, Linn. 4-S regards Florieola being a variety of Hccdbe, I am 

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

 more or less sub-angulated hind-wings seem to separate Desjardinsii from 

 both these species. 



T. Brigitta.P. SO.ffab. Umquabaaba River, Natal 

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



Danais Echeria.P. 86.Hab. Bashee River (J. H. B.) ; 

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



D. Chrysippys.P. S8.Hab. Genadendal (G. H.) ; 

 Bashee River (J. H. B.). (( Querimba " Hpfr. 



Specimens of this abundant species not, rarely occur, in which the disc, 

 of Mnd-ivwgs is much suffused with white. Mr. Bowker writes that 

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



4craa Horta. P. 92.Hak. Genadendal (G. H.); Basheo 

 River (J. fl. B,) ; Damara Land (C. J, A, and J, A. B.). 



