35 o SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



colouring nearer apex itself pale-ferruginous, enclosing a short vitreous 

 streak of four spots on costa, and two jDale indistinct lines, hind- 

 marginal and submarginal ; a wavy streak of fuscous-ochreous reaches 

 inner margin, leaving anal angle white ; on costa, between apical and 

 central vitreous some ill-defined, elongate, blackish mai'ks ; continuous 

 of transverse line of apical vitreous, three or four blackish spots. Hind- 

 wing : basal fuscous-ochreous as in fore-wing ; first subvitreous band of 

 fore-wing continued to submedian nervure or almost to inner margin ; 

 outer band irregular, narrow, merged with inner on costa, and only- 

 reaching first median nervule ; cell closed by a fuscous-ochreous streak, 

 succeeded by a transverse macular row of the same hue quite across 

 wing to inner margin, where it much widens, and is sometimes joined 

 to an outer, parallel, incomplete, ochreous shade ; inner-marginal region 

 densely fringed with long hairs ; a hind-marginal fuscous-ochreous 

 bounding line from second median nervule to anal angle. Cilia in 

 fore- wing brownish as far as first median nervule, thence white to pos- 

 terior angle, with fuscous spots at ends of nervules ; in hind-wing 

 broader (especially long about anal angle) white, with small fuscous 

 spots at ends of median nervules only. Under side. — IVliite imrer ; 

 hasal colouring wholly absent. Fore-wing : apical colouring very much 

 paler, obsolescent on inner side, not varied with dark spots. Hind- 

 tving : vitreous mai-kings indistinct ; ochreous stripes almost obsolete, 

 hut a conspicuous round black sjwt in fold of inner margin near anal 

 angle, marking termination of outer one. 



AntcnncG white, with black club. Body above blackish, clothed 

 with mixed ochreous-yellow and greyish hairs, beneath white ; abdomen 

 above with thin white incision rings, a white anal tuft, and thin erect 

 tufts of hairs. 



% Quite like $, except for its somewhat paler basal patches and 

 larger apical patch in fore-wing. 



The peculiar and strongly-contrasted colouring and marking of this 

 species at once distinguish it from its dull-tinted congener, 0. Pil- 

 laana, and a further character of distinction is its much less excised 

 inner margin of the fore-wings. 



Colonel Bowker discovered this beautiful Caprona in Ivaffraria Proper in 

 the year 1863, and forwarded several fine specimens to the South- African 

 Museum. On the coast of Natal it is by no means rare : I took my first speci- 

 men at D'Urban on 23rd June 1865, and subsequently (February and March 

 1867) became well acquainted with the insect in that neighbourhood. It is 

 not a rapid flyer, but has a rather fluttering motion on the wing ; it frequently 

 liglits on flowers, and sometimes on the under side of leaves, holding all the 

 wings expanded. It seems to appear throughout tlie year, as Colonel Bowker 

 took several in August 1878, and Captain Goodrich others in Zululand during 

 October and November 1886. As noted in my former book (ii. p. 310), Colonel 

 Bowker observed tliat, wlien in flight, this butterfly made a sharp creaking or 

 buzzing noise. I failed to detect any sound of the kind in the living examples 

 to which I listened in Natal ; but Colonel Bowkcr's observation is confirmed 

 by his niece, Mrs. Bailie, Avho informed me tliat in 1869 she was attracted to 



