158 SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



of fore-iving, and in hincl-iij'uig from hcforc middle, 'palc fern(<jinous- 

 reddish ; hind-margins edged tliroughout by a fine line of black. Fore- 

 wing : intersecting streak of apical patch more macular and conspicuous 

 than on upper side, but sometimes brownish superiorly ; immediately 

 preceding it a short hroad bar of j^ale vcrmilion-red with a tinge of 

 pinh ; parallel to hind-margin a reddish-brown streak (sometimes 

 indistinct on radial nervules) extending from costa to first median 

 nervule, where it becomes broader and blackish, and ends in a blackish 

 space, externally marked by two small yellowish spots immediately 

 above posterior angle ; hasc toith a hroad siiffitsioii of orange-yellow, 

 filling basal half of cell and extending to costal nervure, but not (or 

 very faintly) below median nervure ; a minute terminal disco-cellular 

 blackish dot. Hind-icing : nervures faintly clouded with blackish for 

 a little distance from base ; a conspicuous but rather diffused slightly 

 sinuated blackish streak running obliquely from costa considerably 

 before middle to between first median nervule and submedian nervure 

 rather beyond middle ; another highly irregular, often fainter or browner 

 streak, from costa scarcely beyond middle to third median nervule far 

 beyond middle, — there sharply broken, but resumed indistinctly nearer 

 origin of same nervule, and prolonged obliquely to inner margin just 

 before anal angle ; a submarginal brown streak as in fore-wing, but 

 much broader, and so radiating outwardly on the reddish nervules as 

 to shut off five large internally-rounded hind-marginal spots of the 

 ground-colour ; a wide edging along costa from base to middle, a mark 

 between costal and subcostal nervures, a short longitudinal disco-cellu- 

 lar streak (with a small ill-defined terminal spot), a long streak from 

 base to anal angle above submedian nervure, and a short (sometimes 

 indistinct) one below it, — all bright orange-yellow. 



$ Apical 2^atch inferiorly broader than in $, blade, with only the 

 very faintest trace of purple-lalce on upper part of its inner side, hut 

 traversed centrally hy a curved row of five yellowish-white spots (of which 

 thd two loiccr are in one example very smcdl and indistinct). Fore-ioing : 

 basal irroration wider than in ^ ; a distinct terminal disco-cellular dot ; 

 hind-marginal series of inter-uervular acuminate pale sulphur-yellow 

 spots larger. Hind-wing : hind-marginal border broader. Under side. 

 — Quite as in $, but slightly paler. 



In the $ the apical portion of the fore-wings is much produced, 

 and the hind-margin thus slightly convex from the apex as far as third 

 median nervule, but thence slightly hollowed as far as first median 

 nervule ; and the anal-angular portion of the hind-wings is also, but 

 less markedly, produced. In the $ these peculiarities of outline are not 

 nearly so pronounced. 



Lucas's description of the Abyssinian type agrees too closely with 

 Hewitson's Amina, from the Zambesi, to admit of the recoguition of the 

 latter as a distinct species. Wallengren's PholoU ( Wien. Ent. Monatschr., 

 i860, p. 35), from Lake Ngami — with which my Phoenon (Trans. 



