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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Precis Felasgis, p. 2 3 6. 
I received in May 1888 from Mr. A. D. Millar the cast skins of the larva 
and pupa of this species. Mr. Millar found about a dozen of the larvae feeding 
on cultivated plants of Coleus at D'Urban, Natal, and reared two Pelasgis, 
which made their appearance on the 4th May. 
The larva is described by him as entirely dark-brown. As far as can be 
judged from the skin cast before pupation, it does not differ much from that 
of Odavia, except that the head is black, instead of yellowish-brown with 
black marks, and the bod3^-spines are shorter, more slender, and mostly yellowish 
brown instead of black. 
The skin of the pupa strongly resembles those of P. Sesamus and P. Octa- 
via, but is of a darker and browner tint, with the surface not so much granu- 
lated, and the tubercular points smaller. Mr. Millar does not state whether 
this pupa has any gilded ornamentation. 
Precis Plgiva, p. 240. 
Fig. of c?, Stand., Exot. Schmett., pi. 37 (1885). 
Precis Tugela, p. 241. 
Additional locality : — Zululand : Etshowe [A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 
Of three Zululand examples, two were captured by Captain Goodrich re- 
spectively in November 1886 and January 1887. All three were and had 
the discal band tinged with rufous, chiefly in its outer portion. The example 
captured in January was of a more uniform pale ochre-yellow on the under side 
than in the ^ described in the text, most of the brown markings being much 
fainter, except the common dark-brown streak. 
Salamis Aiiacardii, p. 244. 
Fig. of ^, Stand., Exot. Schmett., pi. 38 (1885). 
Additional locality : — Zululand : Etshowe {A. M, Goodrich and T. Vachell). 
Genus Ckenis, p. 248. 
From notes and pencil outlines by Mr. W. D. Gooch, it is evident that 
the larva of this genus (it is uncertain whether C. Natalensis or C. Boisduvdli 
was the species reared from Mr. Gooch's specimens) is very similar to that of 
Precis. The branched spines or horns borne on the head are, however, shown 
as much shorter, and the dorsal branched spines of the third, fourth, fifth, 
eleventh, and twelfth segments are much larger than the others. The second 
(first thoracic) segment is small and has very short spines ; the thirteenth 
(anal) segment has two subdorsal and two lateral, all four simple, unbranched. 
Crenis Boisduvali^ p. 252. 
Additional locality:— Zululand : Etshowe (T. Vachell). 
(except that the hind-margins are almost without dentation) and apparently under-side 
colouring (though more uniform) of Archesia, and the upper-side striping is represented aa 
more even and continuous than in that species, but the upper-side colouring is quite of the 
character of that exhibited by P. Sesamus and P, A^nestris. Hob.—'' Masassi, East 
Africa." 
