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Show 78 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Jan. 17, under surface of the secondaries, the costal border and an streak from the base only being saffron-yellow. Though this may perhaps be a distinct species, there is not at present sufficient material to warrant its separation on mere colour-characters apart from marking. 108. BELENOIS DENTIGERA, sp. n. 3 . Belongs to thei?. calypso group ; above white : the primaries with blackish costal edge ; the subcostal furca widely blackish-bordered ; five other blackish triangular marginal spots in a decreasing series; three widely separated greyish dots in an angular subapical series; secondaries with four small black marginal spots; thorax greyish, abdomen white. Wings below white; primaries with black costal edge, a black dot on the lower discocellular veinlet; five unequal black spots in an angular subapical series; seven black marginal spots at the extremities of the veins: secondaries very faintly rose-tinted ; costal border orange on basal and apical thirds ; an ill-defined orange basi-abdominal streak ; a black dot at end of cell; a submarginal series of seven unequal black spots and a marginal series of six. Expanse of wings 60 millim. Stazione Gadda, 10th February, 1884. Only one male of this very distinct species was obtained ; it comes nearest to an unnamed male in the Museum collection from Angola. 109. BELENOIS GIDICA. Pieris gidica, Godart, Enc Meth. ix. p. 131. n. 37 (1819). 3 . Fdda, 1st November, 1885; $ . Wadelai, 31st March, 1887. 110. BELENOIS SEVERINA. Papilio severina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 338. G, H (1782). 111. BELENOIS INFIDA, sp. n. 3. Above like B. severina, excepting that it is a little smaller, and has a distinct black bar, commencing with a cuneiform black costal spot, at the end of the discoidal cell of primaries ; the border of secondaries narrower and interrupted by larger white spots. Below, the costal border of primaries is not yellowish, the groundcolour of the apical area is considerably browner, this border narrows abruptly from the second, instead of remaining wide to the first median branch ; the secondaries have a whitish abdominal border and all the veins and the outer border are widely rufous-brown the latter interrupted by the usual yellow spots. Expanse of wing's 46 millim. 2. Extremely variable, the primaries either pinky white or chrome-yellow with a black external border occupying from one third to more than half the wing; a broad oblique black bar across the end of the cell, connected by black veins with the outer border or in some examples, perfectly lost in it, a small costal spot of the ground-colour alone remaining to show the point of union; three |