HESPERID.E. 355 



spots (of which the middle one is twice as large as the otliers) in an 

 irregular Hue between base of third median nervule and just below 

 first median nervule; a much smaller rougldy sub-triangular subcostal 

 darker patch beyond middle — its base on third median nervule — out- 

 wardly edged by a thin oblique slightly curved streak composed of 

 three minute vitreous spots ; at apex and posterior angle a good-sized 

 darker mark, with tiaces of a connecting submarginal dark fascia 

 between the two ; close to hind-margin a black streak, immediately 

 succeeded by an indistinct yellowish-white one. Hind-icing : an in- 

 distinct broad darker fascia about middle ; beyond it traces of a more 

 indistinct dark streak ; at apex a darker mark extending along upper 

 third of hind-margin. Cilia blackish, with pale-greyish internervular 

 interruptions, indistinct in fore-wing but well defined in hind-wing. 

 Under side, — Ferruginous-orange, with blackish stricc indicating roughly 

 the outline of the darher 2^<^'^lc,he$ of upijcr side. Fore-iving : vitreous 

 spots as on upper side, but with fuscous edges, rarely an additional 

 small one in discoidal cell immediately below ordinary one ; a fuscous 

 line marking extremity of cell ; continuous of vitreous streak of three 

 subcostal spots, two fuscous spots between ujiper radial and third 

 median nervules ; inner-marginal border ashy-grey. Hind-wing : a 

 thin terminal disco-cellular streak ; base ashy-grey ; an interrupted 

 sub-basal stria, and a less widely interrupted but submacular and irre- 

 gular discal stria from near costa to submedian nervure. 



Head (with palpi and antennoe) and hody above like upper side of 

 wings ; paljpi beneath dull ferruginous-ochreous; rtn^ewio^ beneath white, 

 except black apical half of club. Thorax and abdomen beneath dull- 

 brown, legs also dull-brown, excej^t tibia and tarsus of front iKiir, which 

 are snoiv-ivhite externally ; the tibia and first joint of tarsus bearing a 

 dense snow-white fringe. 



$ Like $, the discal spots of fore-wings rather larger. Uxder 

 SIDE. — Orange paler. 



Antenmc not white beneath, but with whitish half- rings. Fore-legs 

 not white on tibia and tarsus, but wholly brown and without fringe. 



A large $, taken by Mr. C. F. Palmer near Barberton, Transvaal, 

 on I 2th April 1888, varies in having the upper side more uniformly 

 dark and with a more apparent purplish gloss, while the under side is 

 very much darker, the ferruginous-orange only appearing as an upper 

 discal patch (small and ill defined in hind-wings), the rest of the sur- 

 face being not much paler and of the same colour as the upper side.^ 



In the ordinary $ it occasionally happens that the two minute sub- 

 costal spots about middle are obsolescent, or (very rarely) absent entirely. 



^ Mr. A. G. Butler {Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S88, p. 81) observes that $ specimens 

 received from Wadelai (about 3° N. lat. in Central Africa) " show no trace of the ochra- 

 ceous colouring on the under surface which characterises the i specimens." The ordinary 

 South-African 9 s that I have seen present, on the contrary, a somewhat paler (but quite 

 as decided) ferruginous-orange under side than the i s. It is not impossible that the 

 Tropical specimens may prove to constitute a distinct race or variety. 



