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XLIV. Descriptions of Three New Species of the Genvs 

 Anthocharis, Boisd., and a New Species of the Genus 

 Pais, Huhn., from Tropical South-Wesiern Africa, 

 By Roland Trimen, Esq. 



[Read 6th April, 1863.] 



Having had opportunities of examining the Lepidoptera contained 

 in various heterogeneous Entomological Collections from time to 

 time sent or brought from Damara Land and adjacent regions to 

 Cape Town, I have been for some while engaged in preparing a 

 list of the species, with such notes as I have been enabled to 

 make. This I trust to forward to the Society on the return of 

 Mr. Andersson, the well-known traveller, from his present journey 

 in Damara Land ; that gentleman, to whom I am already indebted 

 for specimens and information, having promised to look specially 

 after the Lepidoptera on this trip. 1 thus hope much to increase 

 the value of my list by the accessions which will doubtless be 

 made to it on an inspection of the species collected by Mr. 

 Andersson in those little-explored regions which he has done so 

 much to make known to the civilized world. Meanwhile, I think 

 it desirable to publish descriptions of four of the most striking 

 novelties from the country in question, belonging to the genera 

 above indicated. Three of these are additions to the already 

 large group of Anthocharis, a genus of which the species greatly 

 need careful investigation and revision. But as no one of the 

 three in question is marked with red or orange apical patches, 

 Lepidopterists need not dread that the confusion of species 

 will be made " worse confounded'' by the publication of these 

 descriptions. I have specimens of four or five species with 

 red and orange apices, from Damara Land (which is especially 

 rich is this genus), but at present despair of determining whether 

 they belong to established species or not. I sincerely trust that, 

 ere long, some able Lepidopterist will publish a careful mono- 

 graph of this lovely genus of the Pierida, than which nothing 

 could present a more attractive field for study and illustration. 



