3 TO SOUTII-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



nine spots highly irregular, — the first three very small, forming a short 

 incurved costal streak about midway between end of cell and apex, — 

 the fourth and fifth also very small, situated nearer to hind-margin, 

 — the sixth larger, subquadrate, in a straight line beneath first three, — 

 the seventh and ninth large, longitudinally elongate, in a slightly oblique 

 line beneath disco-cellular one (from which the seventh is separated 

 only by median nervure), — and the eighth minute, between seventh 

 and ninth, and in one specimen united to latter. Hind-uing : dis- 

 coidal cell and nearly all inner-marginal area below and beyond it 

 clothed with yellow hairs ; terminal disco-cellular spot shaped similarly 

 to that in fore-wing, but not so elongate ; in discal series six spots, of 

 which the first and sixth are very small, rounded, but the others narrow 

 and elongated longitudinally, contiguous, the second and fourth pro- 

 jecting considerably beyond the rest. Under side. — Hincl-icing, and 

 all fore-wing except inner-marginal area vp to a little distance from 

 hind-margin, bright clirome-yclloiu ; spots arranged as on upper side, hut 

 very sharply and distinctly hlacJc-edged ; neuration beyond disced spots, 

 and a hind-marginal edging line, black. Fore-ioing : inner-marginal 

 fuscous area extending narrowly to posterior angle, and slightly en- 

 croaching on lower edge of discoidal cell. Hind-wing : close to base, 

 between costal and subcostal nervures, a small black spot ; another, 

 rather farther from base, between median and submedian nervures ; 

 submedian and internal nervnres black ; all six spots of discal series 

 equally distinct, contiguous, — and a seventh (separate) spot between 

 costal nervure and first subcostal nervule. 



Head above black, with a few creamy-white hairs intermixed ; on 

 vertex a median longitudinal line and a conspicuous spot next each 

 eye, as well as a posterior half-ring round eyes, creamy-white ; pcdjn 

 above black with a few yellowish hairs intermixed, beneath creamy- 

 white tinged with yellow superiorly, — the small terminal joint all black ; 

 antenncc black, ringed at joints with creamy-yellowish (conspicuously 

 so beneath), — the club very slightly acuminated and recurved, dull-red 

 at tip. Thorax above fuscous, densely clothed with yellowish hair, 

 especially posteriorly ; beneath creamy-whitish ; legs yellow. Abdomen 

 fuscous above, very conspicuously and sharply ringed with straw- 

 yellow on segmental incisions ; beneath creamy- whitish, with a row of 

 elongate black spots on each side. 



$ Like $ ; but both ground-colour and sp)ots pcdcr, and the yellow 

 irroration in fore-iving and yelloiv pubescence in hind-iving very much 

 duller, paler, and sparser. Fore-wing : disco-cellular spot larger supe- 

 riorly ; seventh spot of discal row for the greater part not in line with, 

 but beyond disco-cellular spot, — ninth spot in one example considerably 

 enlarged and elongated longitudinally. Under side. — As in ^ ; but 

 inner-marginal fuscous ai-ea paler in fore-wing, and in one example 

 extending up to hind-marginal edge above posterior angle as far as 

 first median nervule. 



