io6 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



costa from base to a little before middle edged with orange-yellow ; 

 an elongate blackish spot on costa a little beyond middle ; spots at 

 extremities of nervules indistinct or almost obsolete, but nervules 

 themselves black or blackish close to hind-margin. 



$ White of a more ydloivish tint than in ^ ; the apical patch hright- 

 orange. Fore-wing : disco-cellular spot larger and rounder than in 

 $ ; orange apical band divided lengthwise by a row of four rather 

 large wedge-shaped black spots, the black bands bordering it broader 

 than in $, and extending to posterior angle ; a large subquadrate 

 blackish spot on disc, immediately above submedian nervure ; basal 

 clouding much darker and more extended than in $, usually filling 

 basal half of cell, and extending rather wddely along inner margin as 

 far or nearly as far as black quadrate spot. Hincl-ioing : on costa 

 beyond middle a blackish streak commences, narrowing and gradually 

 disappearing towards centre of wing ; hind-margin broadly black, 

 emitting deep acute dentations on nervules. Under side. — More deeply 

 tinted tha7i in $, hind-tving and cqncal patch of fore-wing externally 

 didl lemon-yellow. Fore-ioing : inner portion of apical patch tinged 

 with ochrey-orange and traversed (as on upper side) by a series of 

 black spots ; disco-cellular and inner- marginal spots as on upper side. 

 Hind-ioing : a narrow black spot, immediately surmounted by a white 

 one at extremity of cell ; transverse blackish stripe from costa beyond 

 middle strongly marked as far as third median nervule, and beyond 

 its extremity a blackish spot below that nervule ; a second blackish 

 spot below first median nervule. 



Second (Diniorjjhic') Form of $. — Orange at apex of fore-iving ivholly 

 wanting, but to some extent replaced by three or four rather small, 

 rounded, separate whitish spots ; black markings generally broader 

 and somewhat diffused on their edges. 



This form is in the male sex readily separable from its near allies 

 by the great development and intensity of the apical black of the fore- 

 wings, which forms a broad inner margin to the violet band, much 

 reducing the width and more or less the length of the latter. The 

 outer black margin of the violet also wholly wants (or has only very faint 

 traces of) the pale-grey clouding conspicuous in lone. The decidedly 

 yellow colouring of the under side is further a very characteristic feature, 

 and is pronounced in both sexes. The two forms of $ present on the 

 upper side no salient points of distinction from those of lone (varying 

 in the dusky clouding of basal areas, and to a less extent in yellowish 

 tinting, much in the same way), but in the red-tipped $ the black 

 spots traversing the red seem to be invariably much larger and nearer 

 to its inner edge, while the red itself occupies a smaller space, scarcely 

 extending below third median nervule. In several $ s (of both forms) 

 the angulated blackish discal ray of the under side of the hind-wings 

 is completed by a variably-developed spot between second and first 

 median nervules. 



