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patch. Hind-ioing : hoary-grey ; three transverse, brownisli, 

 waved, sub-dentate streaks — one before, the second about, 

 the third beyond, middle — the second of which is the most 

 distinct and regular ; between the latter and the third are a 

 few small blackish spots between nervules, arranged parallel 

 to hind-margin ; ochreous patch very faintly indicated by a 

 slightly yellowish tinge ; centre and hind-margin varied with 

 narrow shadings of pale-brown ; in some specimens, a narrow, 

 lunulate, brown streak bordering hind-margin ; no trace of 

 the blue spot so conspicuous on upper-side. 



? . Ground-colour not so intense a black as in $ : the 

 blue spot in hind-ioing smaller and much duller (the edges of 

 it not so clearly defined). Fore-wing : basal half of discoidal 

 cell dusted with ochreous scales, and with a short, indistinct, 

 transverse, ochreous streak, situate a little within the lai'ge 

 ochre-yellow patch ; which latter commences further from 

 base than in $ , does not extend so low, is more deeply in- 

 dented with black both on its upper and lower edge, and 

 contains a transverse black streak which, as on under-side of 

 $ , seems to indicate the extremity of discoidal cell ; the 

 ocellate spot marking the junction of pale apical streak with 

 ochreous patch, more distinct than in $ , and blue-pupilled ; 

 the lower black indentation of the ochreous patch is also 

 marked with a larger ocellate spot, likewise blue-centred. 

 Hind-wing : two small, black spots, sometimes blue-centred, 

 in ochreous patch, one on its upper edge above discoidal 

 nervule, the other between second and third median nervules ; 

 the lunulate streak bordering hind-margin distinctly marked, 

 blackish. Fringe of both wings as in $ , perhaps more dis- 

 tinctly marked with whitish. Under-side. — Quite similar 

 to that of ^ , but more distinctly marked ; the hind-wing a 

 little more brownish in tint. 



A variety of the ? occurs, in which the blue spot on hind- 

 wing is wanting. 



December (b) — February (m). Again in April (e). "March (m)" — 

 (Miss Wentwortb). 



Local. Waste ground, hill-sides, stubble-fields, marshes, &c. Rarely in 

 woods. 



This species, with its yellow and blue markings strikingly brought into 

 contrast on a jet-black ground, is one of the most beautiful Butterflies in 

 Southern Africa. It is widely spread over Africa and South Asia, as will 

 be seen from the localities given below. I very rarely saw (Enone at 

 Knysna, but at Plettenberg Bay, in January and February, I found it very 

 common in certain spots. A stubble-field, where grew a small low plant 

 with violet flowers, was a favourite locality; but the insect was most 

 abundant in a grassy piece of marsh-land bordering the Bitouw river, where 

 it delighted in the white flowers of an umbelliferous plant resembling the 

 Wild Carrot. It is active on the wing, and ready to take flight directly 

 one approaches. 



