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ous-T/dloii\ Fore-wing: on subcostal neniiles, rather before midway 

 between extremity of discoidal cell and apex, two very small and indis- 

 tinct (sometimes quite evanescent) yellowisb spots, forming a very 

 short slender oblique mark. Hind-wing : costal border more or less 

 bro^^^lish-grey towards apex. Cilia brownish-grey, becoming whitish 

 about posterior and anal angles. Under side. — Hincl-iving, and all 

 fore-ii'ing except a ivide dull-ivhitish inner-margi?2al border, pale didl 

 grei/ish-ijclloio with a faint greenish tinge, marked ivith some scarcely 

 paler yellowish grey-edged spots. Fore-wing : subcostal spots better 

 defined than on upper side, and beginning a discal row of six, the 

 third and fourth of which stand together beyond the rest, and the fifth 

 and sixth obliquely nearer base. Hind-iving : discal row composed of 

 elongate confluent spots, extending from costal to submedian nervure, 

 sharply angulated on second subcostal nervule near hind-margin ; whole 

 of inner-marginal fold much paler, inclining to dull-whitish. 



$ Father darker, with a general yelloivish tinge, hut witJwut any 

 direct yelloiv suffusion; fore-wing with a disced row of small distinct 

 pale-yellowish spots arranged as on under side of $. Fore-tving : usually 

 a third (uppermost) minute spot at subcostal commencement of discal 

 row, also an eighth rather indistinct spot immediately above sub- 

 median ner\mre. Hind-ioing : a short, faint, median discal row of 

 three dull-yellowish elongate marks, representing in part that of under 

 side. Under side. — Like that of ^, hut consideraUy yclloiver, and 

 with all the markings much more distinct. Fore-tving : inner-marginal 

 and (especially) central area of a much darker grey. Hind-iving : 

 inner-marginal fold greyer. 



Variety A. $ and ^ {Letter stcdti, Wallengr.). 



^ Rather darker, without ochre-yellow suffusion, but with more or 

 less of a pale dull greenish-yellow tinge, especially near bases. Fore- 

 wing : often a decided greenish-yellow irroration basally and along 

 costal border. Under side. — Much yellower, nearer in tint to typical 

 $, and with the markings almost as distinct. Hind-wing : inner- 

 marginal fold grey, darker about anal angle, — only the inner edge 

 yellowish. 



$ Like typical $, except that the discal spots are usually larger 

 and yellower and better defined, especially in hind-wing, and that 

 the yellow irroration from bases usually extends pretty widely over 

 inner-marginal areas, as well as along costa of fore-wing. Under 

 SIDE. — Like typical ?, but central and inner-marginal area of fore- 

 wing and inner-marginal fold of hind-wing darker. 



{Hah. — All Eastern South Africa, and as far westward as Knysna, 

 Cape Colony.) 



In Ehopalocera Africce Austrcdis I treated the more prevalent 

 form just described as typical (as indeed it is of Letterstedti, Wal- 

 lengr.), noting that the rather smaller form, with ochreous-yellow suffu- 

 sion, characteristic of the Cape Peninsula and the Western Districts, 



