Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
7. (2) PIERIS SEVERINA, Cramer, pl. 338, f. G, H; Godart;
Boisduval; Trimen, p. 32.
Two specimens, of unrecorded locality.
Genus IDMAIS, Boisduval.
8. (1) IDMAIS ERIS, Klug, Symbol. Phys. t. 6, f. 15, 16;
Boisduval; Reiche in Ferret and Galinier, Voy. Abyss. pl. 31, f.
1–3; Trimen, p. 59.
Var. _Idmais Fatma_, Felder, Reise Novara, pl. 25, f. 3.
Tati; and the Ramaqueban River, July 29, 1874.
9. (2) IDMAIS VESTA? Reiche in Ferret and Galinier’s Voy.
Abyss. pl. 31, f. 7, 8. (Not of Trimen, p. 62, which = _Idmais
Chrysonome_, E. Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. pl. 7, fig. 5; nor of
Klug nor Boisduval = _Idmais Hewitsoni_, Kirby, Syn. Cat. p.
498.)
The specimens collected by Mr. Oates have the base of all the wings on
the upper side broadly white, the remainder ochreous buff, with a large
dark brown spot at the extremity of the discoidal cell of the fore
wings, a dark brown, very irregular bisinuated fascia running across
the fore wings beyond the middle, and extending across the middle of
the hind wings, nearly reaching the anal angle; the outer margin of
the fore wings is dark brown, with two rows of ochreous buff spots,
the outer ones small; the outer margin of the hind wings is brown,
inwardly dentated, with a marginal row of ochre spots. Beneath, the
fore wings are bright orange-yellow at the base, yellow in the middle,
with the apex and the entire hind wings brownish ochre, the markings
of the fore wings ill defined, and with three obscure bands across the
hind wings. In the female the ground colour of the upper surface of
the wings is uniformly pale yellowish buff. The fascia across the hind
wings separates this species from _Chrysonome_ Dbd., _Vesta_
of Trimen. M. Reiche’s figure apparently represents a larger and more
suffused insect, the under side especially being more variegated, and
the ground colour of the hind wings bright yellow.
Genus TACHYRIS, Wallengren.
10. (1) TACHYRIS AGATHINA, Cramer, pl. 237, f. D, E; Godart;
Boisduval; Trimen, p. 28; Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. t.
21, f. 11, 12.
_Pieris Thysa_, Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. t. 21, f.
7–10.
Near the Victoria Falls, in January.
Genus CALLOSUNE, E. Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. p. 57.
11. (1) CALLOSUNE EUPOMPE, Klug, Symb. Phys. t. 6, f. 11–14;
Boisduval; Trimen, p. 45.
_Papilio Evippe_, Cramer, pl. 91, f. D, E. (nec Linn.).
_Pontia Acaste_, Klug, Symb. Phys. pl. 7, f. 16, 17.
_Pieris Polycaste_, Boisduval.
_Anthopsyche Theopompe_, Felder, Reise Novara, ii. p. 183. no.
175.
Motloutsi River, August 1873.
12. (2) CALLOSUNE DANAË, Fabricius; Donovan, Ins. India, t. 26,
f. 2; Boisduval; E. Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. pl. 7, f. 2; Trimen,
p. 44.
_Papilio Eborea_, Cramer, pl. 352, f. C-F.
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