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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
The species in habiting South Africa are prevalent on the eastern 
side, and three of them, viz., Brigitta, Zoe, and Begularis, penetrate as 
far as the western central districts of the Cape Colony, but are scarce 
there. 
240. (1.) Terias Brigitta, (Cramer). 
$ Papilio Brigitta^ Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. cccxxxi. IT. b, c (1782). 
Pieris Brigitta, Godt , Ent. Meth., ix. p. 135, n. 53 (1819). 
^ $ I'erias Brigitta, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 676, 11. 38 (1836). 
„ ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 80,' n. 52 (1862). 
Terias Rahel, Hopff. [part], Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 368 (1862). 
S Terias Candace, Feld., Reise d. No vara, Lep., ii. p. 213, n. 228 
(1865). 
9 (as Terias Brigitta^ Staud, Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 16 (1884). 
Exp. al, I in. 51-7 lin. ; ($) i in. 5-9 lin. 
^ Bright gamhoge-yelloio ; forc-iving with a hroad hlach border, 
hind-wing ivith a very narrow one, hoth dentate internally on nervules. 
Fore-ioi7ig : base very narrowly speckled with blackish ; on costa close 
to base some blackish speckling, soon giving place to a narrow costal 
black border, which extends to about middle and thence rapidly widens, 
to become very broad apically, whence it gradually narrows along hind- 
margin to posterior angle ; hind-marginally this border is more or 
less completely interrupted, between first median nervule and sub- 
median nervure, by the yellow ground-colour ; the yellow interrupt- 
ing streak more or less obscured with blackish specks ; on costal edge, 
near apex, three minute pale-yellowish inter-nervular marks indenting 
the black border. Hiiid-iving : hind-marginal narrow border com- 
mencing very faintly at extremity of costal nervure, widening about 
extremity of second subcostal nervule, and thence narrowing to a point 
at extremity of first median nervule (in one specimen this border is 
extremely narrow, and becomes merely macular on the nervules in its 
lower portion) ; inner margin as far as submedian nervure bordered 
with pale sulphur-yellowish ; costa also narrowly edged with that 
tint ; base very narrowly and (usually) faintly speckled with blackish. 
Cilia yellow, irregularly tinged with reddish (especially in fore- wing). 
Under side. — Bather didlish pale-yclloiu, with the hind-wing {chiefly 
margincdly) and apical border of fore-iuing more or less tinged with 
creamy -reddish, for the most part very minutely speckled with fuscous 
atoms. Fore-iving : a very faint, slender, terminal disco-cellular striola, 
more or less interrupted in its middle portion ; a faint (sometimes 
obsolete), transverse, short, sub-apical reddish-grey streak, from near 
costa to below second radial nervule. Ilind-iuing : a minute fuscous 
spot close to base below costal nervure ; a transverse row of three 
rather larger reddish- grey spots near base, of which the middle one is 
in discoidal cell ; a double very slender terminal disco- cellular striola, 
more distinct and reddish than that of fore-wing ; beyond middle. 
