436 Dr. A. G. Butler on new African Pierinse 



from New Caledonia in which the whole basal area of the 

 primaries below is also orange, as in B. 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. 



Belenois clarissa, Butl. 



The seasonal differences in this species much resemble 

 those of B. 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 B. 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 B. gidica is not the 

 wet-season form of B. dbyssinica, and that B. allica of 

 Oberthlir is not the 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 



