PIERIN^. 
17 
S Terias Drona, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857; Lep. Rhop. 
Caffr., p. 19. 
$ Terias Zoe, Wallgrn., loc. cit. 
$ Terias Raliel, Hopffi [part], Peters' Reise, Ac, p. 368 (1862). 
^ ^ „ „ and Terias p2ilchell a, 9, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 76, 
n. 49, and p. 78 (1862). 
Uxp. al, ($) I in. 4-7 lin. ; ($) I in. 4-8 lin.^ 
J Bright chrome-yelloiv, of variable depth and brightness ; loitk 
strongly-marked hlack borders to hotli ivings. Fore-vnng : base powdered 
with blackish ; a black border from base along costa, gradually widen- 
ing to apex, where it is very broad, and thence narrowing to anal angle, 
where it is about one line in breadth, the inner edge of its hind- 
marginal portion slightly scalloped, forming small acate projections on 
nervules. Hind-ioing : blackish at base and along submedian nervure 
to a little before middle ; a black band along hind-margin, widest in 
apical portion (but even there not or very slightly broader than the 
anal-angular portion of band in fore-wing), and gradually diminishing to 
anal angle, where it ends in a point. Cilia of fore-wing fuscous, slightly 
mixed with pale-yellow, — of hind-wing all pale-yellow. Under side. — 
Citron-yelloiu. Fore-wing : at extremity of discoidal cell, a double 
narrow blackish line including the yellow disco-cellular nervule, occa- 
sionally almost obsolete ; the broad border of upper side indicated by 
a greenish tint, sparsely irrorated with blackish atoms ; in some speci- 
mens an indistinct, blackish, oblique stria near apex ; small black dots 
at extremities of nervules ; inner-marginal portion of wing paler than 
the rest. Hind-iuing : more or less irrorated with blackish atoms ; a 
transverse series of three blackish dots, sometimes yellow-centred, near 
base ; an indistinct, blackish line, like that in fore-wing, at extremity 
of discoidal cell ; beyond middle two or three faint-blackish, inter- 
rupted, obliquely transverse streaks (often scarcely perceptible), — the 
first on costa, only reaching subcostal nervure ; the second, widely 
interrupted on median nervules, almost crossing the whole wing ; the 
third, on median nervules ; black dots on hind-margin as in fore-wing ; 
occasionally a small rounded blackish spot close to base, between costal 
and subcostal nervules. 
^ Very much paler^ varying from pale lemon-yellow to primrose- 
yellow, more or less densely and generally irrorated toith Uackish atoms ; 
dark border in both wings of a duller black, —in hind-wing more or 
less suffused, and sometimes submacular, or actually broken into nervu- 
lar spots contiguous only near apex. Fore-wing : blackish irroration 
densest in basal half, thinner (or sometimes wanting) in discal area; 
dark border commencing farther from base, and broadly interrupted 
with irrorated ground-colour between first median nervule and sub- 
median nervure, so that a well-marked terminal blackish spot is isolated 
1 A dwarf 9 , captured at Pinetown, Natal, by Colonel Bowker, expands only an inch 
across the wings. 
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