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SIDE. — Considerably paler ; darker spots of fore-wing scarcely perceptible. 

 Hind-wing : darker spots less indistinct, occasionally pretty well de- 

 fined, especially the large first spot in discal row and the spot preced- 

 ing it between costal and subcostal uervures. 



Head above almost black, with a frontal transverse ochre-yellow 

 streak and also a vertical one ; on inner edge of each eye a small 

 ochre-yellow spot; palpi above with mixed black and ochre-yellow 

 hair, beneath all ochre-yellow with a tinge of rufous ; antennae black, 

 with the club creamy-yellow beneath. Body above black, beneath 

 ashy-grey ; front of thorax beneath dull ochre-yellow in the middle ; 

 legs ochre-yellow with tarsi rather paler. 



^ Very much pcdcr, dull pale reddish-broivn u-ith a slight violaceous 

 gloss ; fore-iving icith large disco-cellular and discal vitreous spots. Fore- 

 going : two subterminal disco-cellular vitreous spots obliquely placed, 

 contiguous, the lower and outer one larger ; above first of these spots 

 a smaller subcostal one; small vitreous spots at beginning of discal 

 row larger than in $, three or four in number ; vitreous spots of lower 

 part of discal row four — the first rather small, between third and 

 second median nervules, the second very large between second and 

 first median nervules and just below lower disco-cellular spot, and the 

 third and fourth very small, one above the other, between first median 

 nervule and submedian nervure ; all these vitreous spots more or less 

 edged narrowly with blackish, Hind-toing : spots as in $, but more 

 distinct on the paler ground-colour. Under side. — Paler; vitreous 

 spots of fore-unng luithout dark edges ; darker spots of hind-wing usually 

 less distinct ; in loth wings a dull-whitish linear hind-marginal edging. 

 Hind-u'ing : inner-marginal area paler, inclining to dull-whitish. 



Head and body very much paler than in $, greyish-white beneath ; 

 p)alpi beneath and legs merely tinged with ochre-yellow. 



This species is closely allied to P. Sabadius, (Boisd.), of Mauritius, 

 but differs, as far as the ^ sex is concerned, in its much darker and 

 less rufous colour, very much larger black spots (two good-sized ones 

 instead of a single small one in discoidal cell of fore-wing), and fuscous 

 instead of yellow-ochreous cilia ; as well as in the possession of two 

 small vitreous spots at the beginning of the discal row of the fore- 

 wing. I have not seen the $ Sabadius, but judging from Boisduval's 

 figure and description (Faune Fnt. cle Madag., &c., p. 62, pi. 9, f. 2), 

 the cellular and lower discal vitreous spots in the fore-wing of Not- 

 toana $ are considerably larger, and the two lowest of the latter are 

 only represented by a fuscous mark in Sabadius. 



I found this butterfly rarel\' in tlie Knysiia district of the Cape Colony, 

 firstly in October and Xovembor 1858, and again from the middle of February 

 to April 1859. I did not meet with it at all numerously in Natal, but cap- 

 tured occasional $ s about D'Urban during February and at the beginning of 

 April 1867. Colonel Eowker has taken several examples in the same neigh- 

 bourhood in August ; and Mr. A. D. Millar informs me that the butterfly is 

 found numerously at Sydenham near D'Urban. It is quite a woodland species, 



