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64 MB. R. TRIMEX OX BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 



In my S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 42, I noted the apparent absence 

 of any female examples linking the var. flavida, Mab., with the 

 typical female ; but 1 have since then received two intermediate 

 gradations from Durban, Natal. In the first of these, taken by 

 Mr. C. W. Morrison on the 16th May, 1890, the ground-colour is 

 tinged with lemon-yellow, the hind-marginal border of the hind 

 wings is very little broader than in the variety, but the basal 

 blackish in the fore wings, instead of being merely a narrow costal 

 border, fills all the discoidal cell except its lower edge, where it 

 becomes a sparse irroration only. In the second, taken by Mr. A. 

 D. Miller, there is more approach to the typical female, the hind- 

 marginal border of the hind wings being broader, and the basal 

 black in the fore wings tilling the cell, but not extending below it 

 except in a very faint and narrow irroration at th^ base, while the 

 only tinge of yellow on the white area is at the base of the hind 

 wings. 



118. Pieris alba (Wallengr.). 



<$ . Pina copter t/.v alba, Wallengr. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 — 

 Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 10. n. 7. 



cJ ? • Pieris alba, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 48. n. 253 (1889). 



A male and a female very much worn, taken at Sarmento, on 

 the Pungwe River, on the 18th September, are apparently referable 

 to this species. 



119. Pieris simajca, Hopff. 



cJ 5 • Pieris simana, Hopff. Monatsb. Akad. Wissensch. Berl. 

 1855, p. 640. n. 13 ; and Peters's Eeise n. Mossamb., Ins. p. 354, 

 t. xxiii. figs. 3, 4 (1862). 



The only specimen, a female taken at Christmas Pass, has the 

 fuscous apical border in the fore wings widened so as to include 

 the subapical costal streak, and the fuscous hind-marginal spots in 

 the hind wings also larger than usual. 



120. Pieris severfna (Cram.). 



$ . Papilio severina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 338. figs. G, H 

 (1782). 



Fourteen specimens, 4 males, 10 females ; twelve from Christmas 

 Pass, where the paired sexes were captured on 26th February. 

 Though varying a good deal in depth of markings, all these ex- 

 amples belong to the larger form with more brightly-tinted under- 

 side, which I have shown (S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 72 & note) to be 

 in Natal characteristic of the summer or wet season. 



Genus Herp.enia, Butl. 



121. Herpjenia eriphia (Godt.). 



Pieris eriphia, Godt. Encycl. Meth. ix. p. 157. n. 134(1819). 

 The only example is a fine male, captured in Mineni Valley on 



