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2)ortion of violet), — its hladnsh edgings hroader and darker. Fore-iving : 

 disco-cellular spot larger, ovate or round ; near posterior angle two 

 small blackish diffused spots, continuous of tlie series traversing violet 

 patch. Hind-iuing : blackish hind-marginal spots not so rare us in $. 

 Base of both wings (but especially that of fore-wing) with broader 

 and darker greyish irroration. Under side. — Ili7id tving and apex of 

 fore-wing dull cream g-ochreous {sometimes tinged with reddish), hatched 

 fainthj and minutely unth grey; disco-cellular spots well-developed, 

 that in hind-wing yellow with an inferior black dot ; transverse discal 

 series of fuscous spots usually well marked, that on hind-wing elbowed 

 at third median nervule, and continued thence to inner margin ; no 

 spots at extremities of nervules. 



Variety A. {$ and $). 



^ Blackish nervules and edgings of apical patch more strongly 

 marked, the latter broader ; bases more widely and closely irrorated 

 with greyish ; hind-marginal spots in hind-wing well marked, and 

 five nervules (first subcostal to second median) finely black throughout 

 their length. UNDER SIDE. — In both wings, nervules black close to 

 hind-mai'gin, and spots of discal series blackish, but usually very small. 



$ Apical patch olscure-white tinged ^vith violet, the intersecting 

 Hack macular ray very Iroctd, almost obliterating inner portion of violet. 

 Hind-wing: hind-marginal spots large, black, inwardly prolonged and 

 acuminate on nervules. Under side. — Hind-wing and apex of fore- 

 wing strongly tinged with chrome-yellow ; spots of discal series very 

 dark and distinct, separate, but larger than in ^ ; extremities of ner- 

 vules more widely blackish than in ^. 



Dimorphic Form of $. — Apical patch black, broader throughout 

 (and especially towards posterior angle) traversed mesially by a row of 

 six rather small, outwardly narrowed white spots ; upper of two discal 

 spots near posterior angle merged in hind-marginal black. Hind-iving : 

 hind-marginal spots greatly widened, forming a border narrowly inter- 

 rupted with white on inter-nervular folds. Under side. — As in $ just 

 described, but the spots of discal series in both wings much enlarged. 



{^Eah. — Damaraland, North-West Transvaal, and Eastern Tropical 

 South Africa.) 



Some variation exists in both sexes of the typical form of Rcgina, 

 individuals occurring of smaller size than usual, with the under side 

 more decidedly reddish-tinged, and with the cilia also creamy-reddish. 

 The most strongly marked c^ s of this description that I have seen were 

 from the Eastern Transvaal ; two examples had the hind-wings quite 

 pinkish-creamy, with faint dusky-grey striolation. I have not seen any 

 g in which the black macular ray traversing the violet apical patch is 

 BO nearly obsolete as in Westwood's figure {op. cit.) of a Tati specimen, 

 but several $ s from Damaraland and the Transvaal exhibit considerable 

 reduction of the ray. It is a $ of this kind that I have selected for my 

 illustration. (Plate ii, fig. 3.) 



