Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
This handsome species inhabits Natal, Damara Land, Ceylon, Bengal,
Madras. Male, Inyati (November 30, 1873); females, near the Gwailo
River (October 19, 1873), and Impakwe River (February 12, 1874).
13. (3) CALLOSUNE EVIPPE, Linnæus; Clerck, Icones, pl. 40, f. 5;
Cramer, pl. 91, f. F, G; Godart; Boisduval; Lucas, Exot. Lep.
pl. 37, f. 1.
Tati; and between Inyati and Gubuleweyo, December 1, 1873.
14. (4) CALLOSUNE OMPHALE, Godart; Boisduval; Trimen, p. 50.
Near the Victoria Falls, in January.
15. (5) CALLOSUNE ANTIGONE, Boisduval, Sp. Gén. p. 572; Trimen,
p. 52.
Both sexes, Ramaqueban River, February 14, 1874; also females at the
Gwailo River in October. These females have no orange on the upper side
of the fore wings.
16. (6) CALLOSUNE CASTA, Gerstaecker in Decken’s Reisen in
Ost-Afrika, pl. 15, f. 1, 1 a.
Taken at Tati.
17. (7) CALLOSUNE KEISKAMMA, Trimen, p. 56, pl. 2, f. 3, 4.
Var. _Anthopsyche Topha_, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 34.
Ramaqueban River, July 28, 1874. Kirby cites Klug’s _Pontia
Evarne_, Symb. Phys. t. 6, f. 1–4, as identical with this species,
but the rounded fore wings of the male, with the black exterior margin,
and the submarginal row of black spots on the hind wings, at once
separate these two insects. See the observations of Mr. Weale on this
subject (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 273).
18. (8) CALLOSUNE INORNATA, Westw.
Alis supra albis, basi nigro parum pulverosis, anticis macula
trigona distincta apicali aurantia: alis anticis infra albis
apice albido-lutescenti, intus magis brunnea; alis posticis
lutescenti-albidis, linea recta longitudinali media paullo obscuriori.
Expans. alar. antic. lin. 19.
The locality of this very simply coloured species is not recorded.
19. (9) CALLOSUNE IONE, Godart; Boisduval; Lucas, Exot. Lep. t.
37, f. 4; Reiche in Ferr. and Gal. Voy. Abyss. t. 30, f. 1–8;
Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. t. 21, f. 1–6; Trimen, p. 43.
_Anthopsyche speciosa_, Wallengren, p. 16.
_Anthocharis Erone_, Angas, Kafirs Ill. pl. 30, f. 3.
Two males, taken at Tati.
The species of this genus, in which the males have the extremity of
the fore wings marked with a brilliant blue or pale purple patch, are
so closely allied together as to suggest the possibility of their
being geographical sub-species; they appear indeed to be constant in
their characteristic markings, and the females are even more distinct
than the males, which they are generally so unlike that their sexual
relations might readily be suspected.
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