New Species of Anthocharis. 623 



ochreous- brown ; between costal and sub -costal nervures a yellow- 

 ish tinge ; disco-cellular fold bright yellow from base to closing 

 nervule ; fold between median and sub-median nervures orange- 

 yellow to anal angle. 



The only species of the genus to which A. Phcenon is allied 

 appears, from Boisduval's description (Sp. Gen. p. 581), to be 

 A. Eulimene, Klug-Ehrenb., the under-surface being of very 

 similar character in both species. But the differences are striking 

 enough. Instead of a rosy-glossed fulvous patch of six divisions, 

 A. Phcenon has a very large purplish-lake marking of no less than 

 eight divisions (rivalling A. Dana'e, Fab., in this respect) ; and in 

 the hind-wing we find in Phcenon no disco-cellular dot. Beneath, the 

 colouring of the fore-wing appears very similar ; but in the hind- 

 wing, with the exception of the clouded nervures, there can be 

 little resemblance, Eulimene showing " le m^me dessin qu'en des- 

 sus," while the striae of Phcenon present an appearance unique, as 

 far as I have seen, in this genus. Nor must the intersecting streak 

 of the apical marking be forgotten, a peculiar character which no 

 other $ of Anthocharis possesses.* 



Two specimens of this highly interesting and very beautiful 

 insect were brought from Damara Land by Mr. Andersson, on his 

 last visit to Cape Town, in 1862. I am in hopes of beholding 

 examples of the female in the next collection Mr. Andersson suc- 

 ceeds in bringing down in safety. 



3. Anthocharis Eosphonis. 



Exp. 1 in. 6 lin. — 1 in. 10 lin. 



White, with rather small, ochrey-yellow, apical patch. Fore- 

 rving : no disco-cellular spot ; the whole surface sprinkled with 

 minute blackish atoms, most thickly near base ; an ill-defined 

 blackish internal edging, broadest near costa, to apical patch, 

 which is not divided by clouded nervules as in most species, and 

 is more or less faintly clouded with browninsh externally ; median 

 nervules and sub-median nervure rarely blackish. Hind-rving : 

 dusted with dark atoms, chiefly from base along median and 

 sub-median nervures; spotless. Underside. — White, spot- 

 less, not irrorated. Fore-wing : apical patch faintly discerni- 

 ble by an ochrey shade. Hind-wing: faintly tinted with pale- 

 yellowish ; costa edged with yellow for a little distance from 

 base. 



* The apical portion of the fore-wing is unusually prominent for an Antho- 

 charis, and the anal-angular region of hind-wing slightly so, the whole outline 

 resembling that of the group of Pierls to which P. Nero, Fab., belongs. 



