New Species of Anthocharis, Sfc. 521 



yellow, black-dotted ; transverse rows of spots usually well 

 marked, that of hind-wing elbowed at 1st median nervule, and 

 continued thence to inner margin; no spots at extremities of 

 nervules. 



Var. $ . Blackish edgings of apical patch and nervules more 

 strongly marked, the former broader ; bases more broadly and 

 closely irrorated ; hind-marginal spots in hind-wing well-marked. 

 Underside. — Nervules rayed with black for a little distance from 

 hind-margins ; transverse row of spots blackish in fore-wing. 



Var. ¥ . Apical patch black, intersected by 6 outwardly-nar- 

 rowed white spots; basal irrorations broad and dark. Fore-wing: 

 disco-cellular spot large ; upper spot near anal angle merged in 

 apical black, which extends to anal angle. Hind-wing : hind- 

 marginal spots very large, black, and suffused, forming a band 

 interrupted by white in the folds between nervules. Underside. 

 — Black markings very conspicuous ; extremities of nervules as 

 in var. $ just described, but more widely blackish. 



This splendid Anthocharis differs from A. lone, Godt., — " die 

 schonste aller Pieriden," as HopiFer enthusiastically terms it,* — in 

 the considerably greater width of the violet in the apical marking, 

 which is much more metallic in appearance, the most brilliant 

 blue sheen, in hue like the wings oi Lyccena Argiotus, Linn., $, 

 glittering over a ground-colour which in some lights is a dull 

 crimson-lake. The basal irrorations are also very much fainter 

 and less in extent, especially in hind-wing, where there is no 

 vestige of the clouding along submedian nervure always present 

 in lone; and the hind-margin of hind-wing is very generally spot- 

 less, the nervures in this wing being white throughout, except as 

 above described. But the violet apical marking in the $ is the 

 most incontestable sign of its specific distinctness, that portion in 

 the ? lone being either orange, or black spotted with white or 

 yellowish. The under-surface of the $ differs markedly from 

 that of the Natal variety of lone, named A. speciosa by Wallengren, 

 (Lep. Rhop. CafFr. p. 16), to which all the Natalian specimens 1 have 

 seen must be referred, but more nearly resembles that of the typical 

 lone figured in Peters' " Reise nach Mossambique" (Taf. xxi. 

 f. 2), excepting in the presence of the disco-cellular dot in hind- 

 wing, which is not indicated in the figure or mentioned in the de- 

 scription. The under-surface of the female is more like that of 

 lone, but differs in the complete state of the transverse macular 

 band in hind-wing, and the very distinct yellow disco-cellular 



• Peters' " Reise nach Mossambique," p. 357. (Vol. Ins. und Myriap.) 

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