﻿LYC.ENID.5^ 
  (AiiuCAN). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XXYII. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  DURBANIA. 
  

  

  VII.— 
  DURBANIA 
  LIMBATA. 
  Fios. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Durbaiiia 
  Llmhata, 
  Triiuen, 
  " 
  South 
  African 
  Butterflies," 
  Vol. 
  II., 
  p. 
  217 
  

   (1887). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1;^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside. 
  " 
  Blackish-brown, 
  with 
  a 
  hind 
  marginal 
  orange-red 
  

   band, 
  macular 
  in 
  fore 
  wing, 
  very 
  broad 
  and 
  unbroken 
  in 
  hind 
  wing. 
  Fore 
  wing: 
  

   band 
  lying 
  very 
  close 
  to 
  hind 
  margin, 
  composed 
  of 
  five 
  elongate-ovate 
  spots, 
  

   between 
  subcostal 
  nervure 
  and 
  first 
  median 
  nervule, 
  gradually 
  diminishing 
  

   downward, 
  a 
  small 
  or 
  minute 
  orange 
  spot 
  immediately 
  above 
  first 
  spot 
  of 
  band, 
  

   and 
  the 
  trace 
  of 
  a 
  still 
  smaller 
  spot 
  just 
  before 
  it. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  : 
  band 
  more 
  

   than 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  in 
  fore 
  wing, 
  except 
  the 
  first 
  spot 
  (between 
  subcostal 
  

   nervules), 
  which 
  is 
  small, 
  and 
  in 
  two 
  out 
  of 
  three 
  examples 
  partly 
  separate 
  from 
  

   band, 
  and 
  extending 
  to 
  submedian 
  nervure, 
  its 
  outer 
  edge 
  sinuated 
  by 
  the 
  very 
  

   dark 
  hind-marginal 
  streak. 
  

  

  " 
  Underside. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  and 
  narrow 
  apical 
  and 
  hind-marginal 
  border 
  of 
  

   fore 
  wing 
  very 
  pale 
  greyish-brown 
  irregularly 
  speckled 
  with 
  white. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  : 
  

   orange 
  band 
  situated 
  as 
  on 
  upperside, 
  but 
  not 
  macular, 
  the 
  five 
  spots 
  being 
  

   enlarged 
  and 
  confluent, 
  its 
  outer 
  edge 
  with 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  blackish 
  marginal 
  

   indentations, 
  its 
  inner 
  edge 
  bounded 
  by 
  a 
  conspicuous 
  black 
  streak 
  ; 
  costal 
  area 
  

   from 
  base 
  to 
  band 
  rather 
  widely 
  speckled 
  with 
  white 
  ; 
  inner 
  discal 
  area 
  smooth 
  

   fuscous, 
  not 
  speckled, 
  in 
  discoidal 
  cell 
  two 
  blackish 
  white-ringed 
  spots, 
  one 
  near 
  

   base 
  rounded, 
  the 
  other 
  8-shaped 
  about 
  middle 
  ; 
  a 
  similar 
  larger, 
  curved, 
  sub- 
  

   lunulate 
  mark 
  at 
  extremity 
  of 
  cell. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  : 
  a 
  double 
  parallel 
  series 
  of 
  

   white 
  annulets 
  near 
  base, 
  two 
  annulets 
  being 
  above 
  discoidal 
  cell, 
  two 
  8-shaped 
  

   ones 
  in 
  cell, 
  and 
  two 
  below 
  cell 
  ; 
  an 
  imperfect 
  elongate 
  suffused 
  white 
  lunule 
  at 
  

   extremity 
  of 
  cell 
  ; 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  nine 
  elongate, 
  orange, 
  outwardly 
  black 
  and 
  brown 
  

  

  VOL. 
  III., 
  FEBRUARY, 
  1901. 
  3 
  A 
  

  

  