PIERIN^. 
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three obliquely-transverse ratlier irregular reddish-grey streaks, — of 
which the first is short, just beyond middle, from costal nervure to 
first subcostal nervule, — the second, at some distance beyond middle, 
rather broad, from first subcostal nervule to submedian nervure, but 
very widely interrupted from third to first median nervules, — and the 
third, considerably beyond the second, short, dentate on median ner- 
vules. On hind-margin of both wings a series of minute black spots 
marks the extremities of the nervules. 
$ Much paler, inclining to sidpJmr-yelloiv ; Mack horder not so dark 
and more restricted in fore-wing and luanting in hind-wing. Fore- 
wing : costa rather faintly irrorated with dusky atoms from base to a 
point about one-third of its length ; black border apically as broad 
as in 3^, its internal edge less regularly excavated, its costal commence- 
ment much more attenuated and farther from base, and its hind-mar- 
ginal termination very abrupt on first median nervule ; small yellow 
inter-nervular costal streaks better marked ; rarely the hind-marginal 
border is interrupted by a yellow streak on second median nervule ; a 
small (usually minute) black spot at extremity of submedian nervure. 
Hind-iuing : a hind-marginal series of very small (sometimes minute, 
and more rarely towards apex of moderate size) black spots, at extre- 
mity of each nervule as far as first median. Under side. — Hind-wing 
and costal-apical border of fore-wing of an uniform dull pale rufous- 
creamy, varying in depth of tint, its minute fuscous speckling more 
general than in J ; markings usually duller and fainter than in 
sometimes very indistinct. The ^ exhibits much variation in the tint 
of the under side, some examples being of quite a pallid cream-colour 
with only a slight reddish tinge, while in others the rufous colour is 
very pronounced. 
Mr. Butler has recently {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., March 1886, p. 214) 
expressed the opinion that Brigitta is the Southern representative of Candace, 
Feld., from Abyssinia. An examination of the S and $ of the latter in the 
British Museum has convinced me that the two are identical, Candace being 
simply rather more faintly marked and less reddish on the under side than 
usual. 
Among its South-African congeners, T. Brigitta is distinguished in both 
sexes, but more especially in the female, by the prevalent reddish ti7it of the 
under side, as well as of the cilia both above and beloiv.^ In this respect it 
appears to approach T. Berla, Macl., from Northern Australia, but I have not 
seen the latter species, and can only judge by the published descriptions of it. 
Apart from the peculiarity mentioned, Brigitta differs in the following parti- 
culars from its close ally, T. Zoe, HopfF., viz. : — (^) Ground-colour a deeper, 
warmer yellow ; black border of fore- wing narrower costally and at posterior 
angle — above which it is usually narrowly interrupted ; border of hind-wing 
much narrower, and becoming more or less submacular and obsolete towards 
anal angle ; ( ? ) ground-colour a deeper, richer yellow, without fine dusky 
^ I think it not unlikely that Terias Seruli, Westw. (App. Oates's MataMeland, &c., p. 
342, 1881), is a variation of the ? Brigitta, in which the under-side markings are obsolete ; 
these markings being very faint in many examples of Brigitta, and in one specimen from 
Delagoa Bay (unusually red beneath) almost imperceptible. 
