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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 63 115. TERIAS REGULARIS, Butl. 3. Terias regularis, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. xviii. p. 486 (1876); Trim. ( 3 $ ) op. cit, p. 26. n. 246 (1889). Three males from Christmas Pass. In addition to the above there are three specimens of Terias that I am unable to assign satisfactorily to any of the species known to me. One is a male from Christmas Pass, which in the form and development of the hind-marginal border on the upper-side is intermediate between T. cethiopica and T. butleri, and on the underside, although with much more distinct markings than the latter, is much more faintly marked than the former and has only the faintest indication of the ferruginous blotch near the apex of the fore wings. The other two are females, from Christmas Pass and Mineni Valley respectively, and are of a very pale whitish yellow above, but of a rather yellower tint beneath; on the upperside there is no trace of any hind-marginal border in the hind wings, and the border in the fore wings is of the width and shape of that presented by the South-African female T. jioricola, Boisd., while the underside markings are extremely faint, without any trace of the subapical blotch, and in one example scarcely visible except as regards the terminal discocellular and (in hind wings) subbasal ones. These females approach the white and yellowish-white West-African examples which in collections are usually placed as female T. senegalensis, Boisd.; but I have never been able to identify this species, Boisduval (Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 672) describing with extreme brevity merely a yellow form from " Senegal," as very like T. hecabe (L.) but with the underside markings exceedingly faint, and giving no note whatever of the sexes or their differences. Genus MYLOTHRIS, Butl. 116. M Y L O T H R I S A G A T H I N A (Cram.). 3. Papilio agathina, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccxxxvii. figs. D, E (1779). Seven examples, from the Mineni Valley and the Lopodzi and Vunduzi Rivers. Genus PIERIS, Schr. 117. PIERIS SABA (Fabr.). 2 . Papilio saba, Fabr. Sp. Ins. p. 46. n. 199 (1781). 3. Pieris orbona, Boisd. Faune Ent. Madag. etc. p. 18, pi. i. fig. 3 (1833). 5 , and (as 3 ) var. 2 > Pieris malatha, Boisd. loc. cit. figs. 4, 5. Two males and a female from Christmas Pass, taken on 22nd and 26th February. The males have the hind-marginal black markings more developed than usual, and the female is of the typical heavily black-clouded form but with the hind-marginal border of the hind wings less broad. |
