PIEKIN/E. 
wing- cilia are pinkisli-recl. There is in many of tlie deeper-orange 
species a beautiful rosy and violaceous gloss, better shown in the ^. 
The ^ is constantly paler and duller than the and in the largest 
(Eclusa) group alone possesses yellow spots in the border of the fore- 
wings ; she also, in the same group, usually presents a second white 
or very pale form, with in some instances individuals intermediate 
between this and her normal colouring. In some of the Arctic forms 
greenish colouring pervades the upper as well as the under surface 
of the wings ; and the blackish border is very faint, and in the $ 
evanescent.-'- 
In Bliopalocera Africcc Australis I included, on what appeared 
to be good authority, C. Hyale (Linn.), in the South- African list ; but, 
as no properly authenticated specimen has ever since been brought to 
notice in any part of the country, I feel convinced that some error 
(perhaps the old one of confusing ITyalc with the pale form of the ^ 
Edusa or Electro) must have led to Mr. Layard's belief that he and 
other collectors had taken Hyale in South Africa. It is at the same 
time to be noticed that M. C. Oberthur records this species as among 
the late Marquis Antinori's captures in 1879—81 in Shoa, Abyssinia. 
294. (1.) Colias Electra, (Linnaeus). 
Papilio Electra, Linn., Syst. ISTat., i. 2, p. 764, n. loi (1767). 
$ $ Papilio Hyale, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. cccli. ff. e, f [ ], G, H [ $ ], 
(1782). 
"Var. $ Papilio Pahnno, Cram., op. cit., pi. cccxl. ff. a, b. 
$ 9 ^AR. Colias Electra, Godt., Enc. Metb., ix. p. 102, n. 39 (1819). 
$ $ Yar. Colias Electra, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 637, n. 3 (1836). 
^ Colias Ediisijia, Felcl., " Wien. Ent. Monatschr., iv. p. 100, n. 55 
I (i860)." 
$ $ Yar. Colias Electra, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 71, n. 47 (1862). 
Larva and Pupa, Trim., op. cit., ii. p. 332, pi. i, ff. 2, 2a (1866). 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 9 lin. — 2 in. 2 lin. ; ($) I in. 8-1- lin. — 2 in. 
3 lin. 
$ Deep clirome-yellow, inclining to orange, glossed luith a pink lustre 
in certain lights ; ivitli hroad hlacJc hands on hind-margins. Fore-wing : 
base very narrowly blackish ; an ovate, usually rather narrow, black 
spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; hind-marginal band broadest at 
■ apex, irregularly dentate on nervules on its internal edge, dusted with 
j pale-yellow scales, some of the nervules crossing it near apex being also 
pale-yellow. Hind-iving : base blackish, extending along median and 
submedian nervures ; costa and inner-margin pale yellowish-green ; a 
I large, rounded, deep orange disco-cellular spot ; hind-marginal black 
1 The opposite extreme in this last character is reached in the very remarkable species 
C. Wiskottl, Staudr., from Samarkand, the S of which has the black border in both wings 
I occupying all the outer area from a little beyond the end of the discoidal cell. (See Berl. 
I Entom. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 166, t. ii. ff. 9 cJ, 10 ?.) 
