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This species is found all over South Africa. I have it in my collection from 
Pretoria, Middelburg. Waterval onder (Transvaal) ; New Hanover, Karkloof, 
Sarnia, Umkomaas, Verulam (Natal); Eshowe, and Melmoth (Zululand) ; in 
Oct., Nov., Dec., Jan. 
Larva feeds on Desmodium incanum D.C. (E. E. Platt). 
Antheua Croceipuncta. 
(PL I, fig. 19; PI. Ill, figs. 19-23.) 
Antheua croceipuncta Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8. v. p. 174 (1910). 
I have hardly any doubt that this species and the following two are really 
the same specifically. Practically the only differences given consist of different 
intensity of colouration of head, thorax, wings and legs, absence of basal spots 
in croceipuncta, which are present in the other two species, a missing spot in 
basipuncta, present in the remaining two species. It is not stated which spot 
the missing one is but I suspect it to be the one on the upper median as this is 
the smallest of all and has a tendency to become smaller. One of my bright 
specimens has only 6 postmedial spots, the one on vein 5 being absolutely 
absent, without a trace of it, and which is certainly of the same species as my 
other specimens that have the 7 spots. 
I have 5 specimens in my collection, 4 $s and one <$, in which the colora- 
tion gradually merges from bright yellow into yellowish-white; of these the 
bright yellow £s have 2 basal spots (which are not mentioned for croceipuncta ) 
and the lighter £ as well as the still lighter $ shows net a trace of it. 
They are all from the same locality (Salisbury), the bright coloured specimens 
being caught by myself at the end of December; the light coloured specimens 
were collected by Father O’Neil on Nov. 29th and in December, 1915. I have 
no doubt that my light coloured specimens have bleached either in nature or 
after collecting. The same gradual change of yellow may also be found in 
tricolor as this yellow readily fades in strong sunlight. The specimens I caught 
must have been quite fresh when collected and were the finest specimens Father 
O’Neil had seen up to that time; they were perhaps of the second brood. 
My bright $s have the hind wings above and both wings on the under 
side coloured drab (xlvi) but the light coloured $ is only irrorated with 
drab on the upper side and slightly tinged with this colour on the under side. 
The $ is tinged with light orange-yellow (iii) and the under side is yellowish- 
white. 
Of course, not having seen the type specimens, I cannot be certain, but 
with my specimens before me I have no doubt as to basipuncta and albida being 
cb-specific to croceipuncta.- 
One of the $s has vein 6 of fore wing from angle of cell and not from the 
areole as is the case with the others, while another $ has the left wing normal 
and the right wing without the areole, so that 6, 7, 8, 9 are stalked and vein 10 
is free from upper median. The antennae have in both sexes nearly equally long 
pectinations. 
Antheua Basipuncta. 
Antheua basipuncta Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8 . v. p. 474 (1910). 
Antheua Albida. 
Antheua albida Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. 8 . v. p. 475 (1910)- 
