i8o SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



outer half of inner margin, anal angle, and of hind-margin to mid- 

 way between first and second median nervules, an ill-defined tinge of 

 lemon-yellow. Under side. — Hind-iuing and narrow costcd cdginj 

 and hind-marginal harder of fore-iving pah shining greyish-yelloio ; on 

 hind-martTinal edge an inter-nervular series of minute black spots. 

 Fore-wing : apical broad portion of hind-marginal border of upper side 

 represented by a large subquadrate dark ferruginous-brown patch, 

 more or less clouded with violaceous, reaching costal edge superiorly, 

 but scarcely extending to apex itself, and so leaving hind-marginal 

 border beyond it narrowly yellowish ; below patch some vague hoary- 

 violaceous clouding marks hind-marginal border. Hind-unng : costal 

 border broadly but faintly shot with a tint of hoary-violaceous ; hind- 

 marginal border similarly but more narrowly and more faintly shot ; 

 between second subcostal and radial nervules, near hind-margin, a 

 faint, diffused, ill-defined ferruginous-brown mark (sometimes obsolete) ; 

 costa narrowly edged with orange-yellow for a little distance from 

 base. 



$ Fore-iving with orange-red basal suffusion ; hind-wing often pale 

 creamy-yclloiu. Fore-wing: apical hind-marginal border reduced to 

 blackish nervular rays forming elongate spots, broad externally but 

 acuminate inwardly, at apex very prolonged and diffusedly confluent, 

 but below that quite separate, the lowest on first median nervule ; 

 inner edge of border faintly indicated near costa (and sometimes also 

 on median nervules) by some indistinct fuscous scaling ; basal orange- 

 red occupies discoidal cell except near extremity, and extends faintly 

 and diffusedly below it ; in specimens with yellow hind-wings a faint 

 yellowish edging along costa and hind-margin, nind-wing : white or 

 creamy-yellow — in the latter case the neuration is whitish ; a ner- 

 vular hind-marginal series of six rather ill-defined blackish spots, of 

 which the first and sixth are small, the second prolonged ray-fashion 

 along second subcostal nervule, and the third (on radial nervule) very 

 small, minute, or even obsolete. Under side. — Hind-wing and nar- 

 row costal and hind-marginal border of fore-unng ehrome-yelloio with a 

 tinge of ochreous ; hind-margin of hind-vnng loith ttao violaceous-ivhitish, 

 2xde ferruginous-clouded blotches. Fore-wing: basal orange-red deeper 

 than on upper side, especially below cell, — its outer edge clearly de- 

 fined ; apical blotch coloured like the two in hind-wing, and enlarged 

 inferiorly so as to reach lower radial nervule ; usually a smaller 

 similar but less defined blotch on hind-margin between third and 

 second median nervules. Hind-wing : upper blotch the larger, be- 

 tween first subcostal and radial nervules, bifid internally ; lower blotch 

 prominent internally, rather hollowed outv/ardly, situated mainly 

 between third and second median nervules, but a little overlapping 

 both. 



South-African specimens of the $ differ from the West-African 

 type-form in the less-developed black border of the fore-wings on the 



