ii6 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



which become merged in the blackish bands on inner margin and hind- 

 margin (the latter of which is broader than in ^) near anal angle. 

 Under side. — Like that of $. Fore-iving : apical marking yellower, and 

 more broadly red inwardly, than in ^ ; the black spots dividing it 

 larger, sometimes contiguous ; basal grey mixed with lemon-yellow. 

 Hind-wing : yellowish, darker than in $ ; row of spots beyond middle 

 larger. Cilia of fore-wing reddish-grey, but white or whitish near 

 posterior angle; of hind-wing white, mixed with reddish in ^. 



Variety A. $ and $. — Usually smaller ; exp. al., Q) i in. 9I- 

 10-^ lin. ; ($) I in. 8^ lin. — 2 in. 



$ Basal grey much fainter and less developed, especially in fore- 

 wing, where it is sometimes almost obsolete ; hind-marginal border of 

 hind-wing broken up into completely separate spots, except near apex. 



^ More or less tinged with lemon or ochreous-yellow ; basal suf- 

 fusion not nearly so dark, mixed with ochreous-yellow scales ; apical 

 patch of fore-wing usually larger and of brighter red, its inner border 

 being narrower and in the upper part more or less diffused ; hind- 

 marginal border of hind-wing narrower, radiating little or not at all on 

 nervules. 



Under side in both sexes of a deeper creamy-tint in hind-wing and 

 at apex of fore-wing ; spots of discal series (especially in hind-wing 

 and in ^) more rounded and sub-oceliate, with centres more or less 

 glistening. 



(ffaJ). — Kaffraria Proper, Natal, North- West Transvaal, and Eastern 

 Tropical South Africa.) 



Of this variety, which links the typical Annce to Wallengrenii^ 

 Butl., I possess a dwarf $, taken in some part of Kaffraria by Mr. H. 

 J. Atherstone, which expands only I in. 6 lin. 



Wallengren's reference of his Anncc to the Oriental genus Thcstias, 

 and his description of its apical patch as " rufo-fulva," for long puzzled 

 me ; and it was not until 1 88 I, when Mr. Aurivillius kindly sent me 

 a typical specimen from the Stockholm Museum, that I was enabled to 

 identify it as the large African form of " Danae," figured by Doubleday 

 and mentioned by Boisduval in 1847, ^^^ separated by Mr. Butler in 

 1873 as Cincrcscens. 



Annce is well distinguished from the Indian Banac^ Fab., by its 

 larger size, much greater development of the basal dusky clouding in 

 both wings, and hind-marginal blackish border in the hind- wing. In 

 the (^, too, the apical patch is redder (not so thoroughly crimson), with 

 a broader blackish border on its inner edge, while in the % the same 

 marking is altogether different alike in its duller tint and the f^ir 

 greater development of its dark borders and intersecting macular ray. 

 On the under side there is a closer resemblance, but Annm has all the 

 markings sti'onger, a wider red flush on inner side of the apical 

 patch, and in the fore-wing a distinct blackish streak bounding the 

 basal grey. The true Danae is intermediate in characters between 



