384 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



very sharp nervular dentations, — superiorly the band consists of two 

 very narrow attenuated rather indistinct separate sagittate marks, but 

 from lower radial nervule is continuous, widening on inner margin ; 

 upper three of succeeding series of spots subapical, slightly diffused, 

 not lunulate. Hind-iving : discal band much narrowed on costa, but 

 broader than in fore-wing from costal to submedian nervure, — its inner 

 edge even but somewhat convex inwardly, its outer edge not nearly 

 so sharply dentated as in fore-wing; white spots of succeeding series 

 much smaller than in fore-wing, scarcely lunulate, except the upper two, 

 which are almost obsolete. On the fuscous ground there are darker 

 traces of the submarginal markings and (in the fore- wing) of disco- 

 cellular ones. Under side. — Area before median streak very pale- 

 greyish (becoming whitish along inner-marginal border of hind- wing) ; 

 beyond median streak follows whitish, representing band of upper side, 

 but its external edge and the succeeding white spots very vague ; hind- 

 marginal border rather widely pale-greyish tinged (more decidedly in 

 fore-wing) with ochrey-yellow ; fine lineolar markings before middle 

 much as in $, but broader in figure, and much less conspicuous. Fore- 

 wing : costal bar whitish, immediately before transverse median streak, 

 which is not nearly so dark as in ^. Hind-wing : median streak with 

 a distinct curve inward superiorly. 



This Harma combines many characters of H. Alcimeda, (Godt.), 

 Variety A., and H. Cccnis, (Drury), the $ being on the whole nearer to 

 that sex of the former, while the ^ is distinctly intermediate between 

 those of the two species named. The $ Coranus is on the upper side 

 very near Var. A. of the $ Alcimeda, both in tint of ground-colour 

 and in markings, but it has much less grey suflfusiou at the bases ; 

 presents no trace (except in one example the faintest indication near 

 inner margin of hind-wings) of the inner submarginal lunulate or 

 dentate black streak ; and wants altogether the hind-marginal orange- 

 ochreous spots ; on the under side the resemblance to Var. Alcimeda 

 is also close, but difference is observable in the paler ground before 

 middle with more defined linear black figures ; the darker (and in hind- 

 wings straighter) median transverse streak ; the very much broader 

 and better defined brownish-grey fascia immediately succeeding the 

 median streak ; and the very much fainter ochrey-red tinge on the 

 hind-margins. The much larger size and considerably less prominence 

 of the apical production of the fore-wings and the anal-angular one of 

 the hind-wings, readily distinguish the $ Coranus from its smaller ally, 

 and approximate it to the $ Ccvnis, to which it is further related by 

 the absence of the hind-marginal orange-ochreous spots. It is sepa- 

 rated from the latter by its want of the inner submarginal dentate or 

 lunulate streak, and the more regular and less strong dentation of the 

 outer one ; while on the under side it has no trace of the peculiar 

 very pale greenish tint of Caniis ; the common median streak is de- 

 flected inwardly near the costa of the fore-wings, instead of running 



