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browuish disco-cellular spot ; a dark mark ou costa, beyond middle, 

 commences an indistinct, transverse, angnlated row of brownish spots. 



Variety A. ($ and ?).— ^ not differing on upper side ; ? with 

 the black markings usually more or less reduced, and with the apical 

 patch of the fore-wing outwardly much suffused with dull-rusty 

 brownish. Under side. — Hind-iving and apical area of forc-iuinr/, in 

 loth sexes, 2xdc dull creamy-reddish. 



(^Hah.—E2i^tex\\ Districts of Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and 

 Eastern Sonth-Tropical Interior.) ^ 



Examples intermediate between the variety and typical Eris occur, 

 more particularly in the $, in which the under side presents some paler 

 or more decided tinge of reddish. The most pronounced of these are 

 three unusually small specimens, two ^s and a $, brought from Damara- 

 land by the late Mr. C. J. Andersson {exi^. cd. $ i in. 7^ lin. and 

 81 lin." respectively ; $ i in. 9^ lin.), but rather larger examples taken 

 by JNIr. A. W. Eriksson in the Korth-West Transvaal are almost as 

 decidedly tinged, and so are two ^ s from the Albany district of the 

 Cape Colony, and one from the Trans-Kei territory. Three $ s cap- 

 tured by Mr. John L. Fry on the Makloutse River, North Bamang- 

 wato country, ou the 20th May i 887, are all differently tinted beneath, 

 one being slightly yellowish, another slightly tinged with reddish- 

 brown, and the third dull brownish-creamy. The last mentioned has 

 much the darkest under-side that I have seen in this species. 



As will be seen from the above description, Eris is a decidedly 

 variable species in both sexes, but especially in the $. The Dongolau 

 type, as figured by King," is a <^ having the black longitudinal bands 

 broader than in any South- African examples that I have seen ; the 

 band of the fore-wings leaving no trace of the white spot close to 

 hind-margin between second and third median nervules, and that of 

 the hind- wings at its extremity projecting downward very considerably 

 beyond second subcostal nervule. The fore-wing band in South- African 

 specimens usually leaves, besides the white spot just mentioned ^ (which 

 is, however, very small in some Transvaal examples and a Delagoa 

 Bay specimen, and is only just perceptible in one from Natal), two 

 more or less apparent white marks on the hind-margin between the 

 spot in question and the posterior angle ; but these vary to a mere 



1 A 9 of the variety from Grahamstowii is labelled in the British Museum collection 

 (September iS86) " T. Johnstoni, Butler ;" but I am not aware that any description of it 

 has been published. 



" Reiche (oj). cit.) figures an Abyssinian i very like King's, but with the apical patch of 

 the fore-wings darker and of a redder tinge, and a ? rather yellowish on the upper side 

 and inclining to argillaceous on the under side. 



^ After examining the Angolan specimens of Mr. Kirby's Maimuna in the British 

 Museum, and carefully considering his description {loc. cit.), I am unable to regard his new 

 species as a recognisable one. The 6 in the British Museum has the white spot in the 

 hind-marginal border of the fore-wings well marked, and, like the ? , agrees with the 

 majority of South-African examples. The same remark applies to a (J and ? in the same 

 collection from Victoria Nyanza, referred to Maimuna by Mr. A. G. Butler {Ann. and 

 Mwj. Nat. /list., xii. p. loi, 1SS3). 



