1 66 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



band narrower than in fore-wmff, irregularly dentate on nervules on its 

 inner edge, gradually diminishing as far as first median nervule, where 

 it ends ; a clothing of pale-yellow hairs on the dusky portion of wing 

 near base and inner margin ; yellow field generally more or less finely 

 irrorated with blackish. Under side. — Fore-iving : pale ochreous- 

 yellow, almost cream-colour on inner margin ; costa rather narrowly 

 from base, and bi'oad hind-marginal border, of a lighter or darker 

 greenish-yellow ; disco-cellular spot black and conspicuous ; along inner 

 edge of hind-marginal band, and marking its separation from the yellow 

 ground-colour, is a row of sub-triangular dusky-blackish spots, com- 

 mencing on costa (wi the hind-marginal band), with some ferruginous- 

 blackish, often half-obsolete spots, but below third median nervule, 

 where the band narrows, marking its internal edge. Hind-ioing : 

 wholly of the same greenish-yellow as border of forc-icing : disco- 

 cellular spot bright silvery in a ferruginous ring, usually with a 

 smaller, similar, but duller spot touching its upper edge ; near hind- 

 margin, and parallel to it (as if continuous of the transverse row in 

 fore-wing), a row of seven more or less conspicuous ferruginous spots, 

 commencing with a rather larger spot on costa, and extending to 

 immediately above submedian nervure. 



$ Ground-colour much the same as in $, sometimes rather darker, 

 the finh, lustre much fainter ; hind-marginal hands sjjotted ivith yellow. 

 Fore-iving : basal blackish much broader than in ^, shading off into 

 dusky-greenish, which extends along costa to hind-marginal band and 

 to before middle of inner margin ; disco-cellular spot rounder and 

 usually rather larger ; hind-marginal band usually rather broader and 

 blacker, containing six or seven sidphur-yclloio spots, five of which form 

 a curved row near apex, from costa to third median nervule (the first 

 three of these are elongate, the two others rounded) ; another, always 

 present, between second and first median nervules ; and the seventh 

 spot, generally indistinct, and often wanting, immediately below first 

 median nervule. Hind-wing : wholly suffused with dusky-greenish ; 

 disco-cellular orange spot more conspicuous than in $ ; hind-marginal 

 black band not so dark as in fore-wing, not well-defined on its inner 

 edge, in some specimens extending almost to submedian nervure, in 

 others only to second median nervule, often spotless, but sometimes con- 

 taining on its inner side from three to five pale-yellow spots (those 

 nearer anal angle becoming merged with the ground-colour). Undeii 

 SIDE. — Usually somewhat deeper in colour. Fore-wing : ochreous-yellow 

 ground-colour darker, not paler, on inner margin. Hind-wing : trans- 

 verse row of ferruginous spots not so conspicuous. In both sexes, 

 down on forehead and front of thorax, antenna), legs, and costal edges 

 of a reddish-pinh colour ; fringes varied with pink above, wholly pink 

 beneath. 



Dimorphic form of %. — Orange-yellow ground-colour replaced hy greyish- 

 white. Fore-iving : dusky-grey suff'usion from base forms a conspicuous 



