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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
wings is but little wider, and if anything less bright, than in Aga- 
thina, though very much brighter and broader than in the other two 
species. 
With respect to the $ s, that sex of P. Fhileris is not known to 
me ; ^ but as regards the remaining species, Eilppellii is more like 
Agathina than Poppea in either of its forms. It is best distinguished 
from Agathina by (i) the broader red sulfusion from base; (2) the 
white clouding of the nervures on disc ; (3) the broader apical fuscous 
and larger hind-marginal spots in the fore-wings ; and on the under 
side by (5) the much paler and less yellow hind-wings and apex of 
fore-wings, especially white on the hind-marginal edge. Both forms 
of Poppea, but particularly that in which the fore-wings are white, are 
specially characterised by the enlarged hind-marginal spots of the dipper 
side, which in the fore- wings form broad, elongated nervular rays ; but 
on the under side the corresponding spots are quite as in Puppellii, 
excepting that they are slightly larger. 
In both sexes of Riqipellii the wings are thinner and weaker in 
structure than in Agathina, but not so delicate and semi-transparent as 
in Poppea and Fhileris. 
It was not until I saw M. Oberthiir's figure above quoted that I 
knew how very close my species Hmmus, described in 1879, was to the 
Biippellii of Koch, which, from Felder's remarks (op, cit.), I had sup- 
posed to be most probably an Abyssinian variety of Agathina. Judging 
from that figure (of the and from Felder's description of another J, 
the South- African form, though it can scarcely be separated as a 
species from Puppellii, constitutes a variety which is of larger size, 
better developed hind-marginal spots and fore- wing apical blackish, 
rather more restricted basal red in fore- wing on upper side,^ and whiter 
under side. Neither Oberthiir nor Felder describe the % Rilppellii. Two 
$ s sent by Mr. Selous from Mashunaland in 1883 are considerably 
nearer the Abyssinian type than specimens from South Africa proper, 
being of smaller size, and with the black marginal markings much 
reduced, — most of the spots (especially the upper three in the hind- 
wing) being minute or obsolete. 
Pupa. — " Satiny-white, with a pale-green tinge dorsally ; projec- 
tions on wing-covers tipped with ochreous-yellow and black ; faintly 
mottled with grey ventrally. In shape closely resembles pupa of Aga- 
thina." — J. P. Mansel Weale, in epist., February 1877. 
Mr. Weale wrote that he suspected the larva to feed on Loranthus 
Dregei, parasitic on two kinds of Acacia, Comhretuni, and Schotia, 
but had not succeeded in identifying it, although he had found the 
pupa. 
1 The butterfly figured as the 9 Fhileris by Boisduval {Faune Ent. de Madag., &c., pi. 2, 
f. 5) is an entirely different species, and has been named Pieris Grandidieri by Mabille. 
2 In plate lo, fig. 3, the basal red of the fore-wing on the upper side is not quite wide 
enough on the median nervure, while the basal yellow of the hind-wing is a little too much 
extended over the discoidal cell. 
