132 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTEKFLTES. 



discoidal cell to near costa, and its outer extremity usually united to 

 inner black border of apical marking, on third median nervule, by a 

 narrow, upward, blackish streak. Hind-wing : grey at base and costal 

 band similar to the same in ^, but broader and darker ; from extremity 

 of band a more or less marked blackish streak extends almost to middle 

 of hind-margin, where it unites with a broad diffused submacular blackish 

 border, and from whence it turns off at right angles to beyond middle 

 of inner margin, this latter portion being very much broader than the 

 rest. Under side. — Duller in colour than in $, and iisually more, or 

 less tinged with yellow. Fore-wing : a blackish streak bordering inner 

 side of apical marking ; inner-marginal band greyish, ending in a well- 

 marked black spot, which is often united by a thin, faint, blackish streak, 

 to the inner border of apical marking, as on upper side ; base some- 

 times tinged with pale yellow. Hind-ioing : greyer in tint than in ^, 

 but marked similarly, excepting more or less indistinct pale-brownish 

 traces of the angulated band of upper side. 



The apical red in the ^ presents various gradations through orange 

 to dull-yellowish, and is rarely wanting altogether, being replaced by 

 whitish spots. 



The ^ varies considerably, not only in the tints of the under side 

 above mentioned, but in the development of the black markings, more 

 especially as regards the inner edging of the apical patch, the longi- 

 tudinal blackish band in both fore and hiad wings, and the hind- 

 marginal spots of the hind-wings.^ The ^ also presents much variation 

 in her considerably heavier black markings, which are sometimes so 

 enlarged as to leave only isolated patches of the whitish or yellowish 

 gi'ound-colour. 



The T. Hero of Butler (the types of which, a ^ and a ^, I have 

 examined) is founded upon a % which presents these very strongly 

 developed blackish markings in conjunction with a dull-yellowish 

 ground-colour and a scarcely brighter apical patch ; and upon a ^ in 

 which the blackish markings of the fore-wings are reduced, — the inner- 

 marginal band being dusky-grey and becoming obsolete beyond middle, 

 and the inner edging of apical patch being also almost obsolete. Butler's 

 T. Trimeni (of which I have also examined the types) is founded 

 on specimens identified with Hiibner's figures above cited (including 

 some taken by myself in the Knysna District of Cape Colony), which 

 cannot, in my opinion, be held distinct from typical Achine. Hiibner's 

 figures represent a ^ and ^ in which the upper-side black markings 

 are, though very distinct, considerably narrowed ; but it seems to me 

 impossible to separate Hiibner's ^ from that originally figured by 

 Cramer, which only differs in its duller white ground-colour and heavier 

 black markings. 



Hgjicrides, But!., is founded on a $ and two $ s collected by 



^ In two (5 s among those that I captured near Grahamstown in the Cape Colony, there 

 are faint blacki.sh traces of an angulated discal ray on the itpiicr side of the hind-wings. 



