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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
$ Similar to $, hut ivith additional hlach markings. Fore-wing : 
costa with a greyish border as far as disco-cellular band, which is much 
broader than in $ ; hind-marginal band slightly broader and blacker 
than in — its third white spot always quite enclosed in the black; 
two additional blackish spots near posterior angle, between first median 
nervule and inner margin, the lower one much smaller and fainter, and 
forming a continuation of the upper one. Hind-wing : a blackish band 
along hind-margin, commencing with a dark mark on costa (adjoining 
spot on inner margin of fore-wing), becoming obsolete towards anal 
angle, and containing four or five rather large ovate white spots. 
Under side. — Fore-wing : only the 'Ztp^e?- of the two additional blackish 
spots present. Hind-wing : the clouding of the nervules wider than 
in ^, in some strongly marked specimens so much so as to leave only a 
row of white spots in place of the central white band. 
A dwarfed taken at Burghersdorp by Dr. Kannemeyer, measures 
ouly I in. 3-^ lin. across the expanded fore-wings. 
Larva. — Light-green, darker on inferior surface. A median dorsal 
violaceous stripe ; and on each side a broader, less defined, deeper- 
greenish stripe mixed with violaceous, succeeded by a conspicuous pale- 
yellowish spiracular band. On each segment numerous black dots 
arranged in four transverse lines on back and sides (other scattered 
black dots on lower part of sides), and also four orange spots, situated 
anteriorly, two of which immediately precede the spiracles. Head 
black-dotted ; spiracles conspicuously black. A few short hairs about 
body generally, numerous short hairs on head. 
" Food-plants near Grahamstown, Sisymlrium Capense (and pro- 
bably S. hjratum) and Lcpidium sativum." — M. E. Barber. 
Pupa. — Above yellow, sprinkled with black dots, beneath pale- 
green. A median dorsal pale-violet stripe ; narrow thoracic ridge 
marked with a red line. 
The first pupa I observed (found on loth December) changed in 
colouring, four days afterwards, to light violet-grey, with a pale-yellow 
stripe along each side of the abdomen ; the imago did not appear 
before the 20th December. The second pupa I reared retained its 
yellow and green colours throughout from the 24th April to the 8th 
May, when the imago emerged. One pupa was attached to the wall 
of a house, the other to a grass stem. 
A very near ally of Hellica was brought from Kilima-Njaro by 
Mr. H. H. Johnston, and has lately been described and figured as 
Sijnchloe Jolinstonii by Mr. P. Crowley {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, 
P- 3 5) pl- iii- ?) ff- I' 3 5 ¥' ^- 2)- I made notes on two ^s and a 
^ of this form in the British Museum collection (October 1886). It 
is at once distinguishable by its longer wings, the fore-wings being 
also acuter apically ; and the $ has the black border of the fore-wings 
on the upper side internally unbroken, with the enclosed white spots 
smaller than in Hellica. On the under side, the neuration is more 
