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to inner-margin), and usually marked with a slender, black 

 spot, just above first median nervule ; succeeding band, the 

 ferruginous ground-colour still extends in the form of a parallel 

 stripe, very deeply indented, on nervules, by the greenish- 

 grey ground-colour that ensues ; hind-marginal lunules 

 merged into a rather broad stripe, varied white and greenish ; 

 before which is a row of outwardly black-edged, glistening- 

 violet, lunular spots, increasing in size to anal angle, where 

 the largest is gemmate, surrounded by olive-grey, which is 

 bounded inwardly with pale-yellow, outwardly with pale- 

 green. 



$ . Quite similar to $ , but 'paler and duller in colours. 



The only specimens of this handsome species that I have seen were taken 

 in Damaralaud; one at Otjimbingue by Mr. H. Hutchinson, and several 

 others by Mr. C. J. Audersson in various parts of the country mentioned. 

 Damaraland being, however, to the North of the Tropic Line, is out of the 

 province I have laid down as South Africa par excellence ; and my only 

 authority for including Nymphalis Pelias in my list is the rather doubtful 

 habitat of " Cape of Good Hope," assigned to it by Cramer. In this in- 

 stance, however, the old Dutch aiithor is probably right in his locality ; 

 for, Damaraland being so far to the South, there is no reason why Pelias 

 should not extend into the woods of the extra-tropical region. Cramer's 

 figure, though rough and not correctly coloured, is yet very truthful in regard 

 to markings ; and I was reminded of it at once, on seeing the first specimen 

 of this Nymphalis sent to the South African Museum. Herbst, who has 

 apparently copied Cramer's figure, gives Guinea as the habitat of this 

 species, which he confounds with Drury's Eucloxus. 



Damaraland. — Coll. mihi et Coll. S. A. Mus. 



tl02. Nymphalis Jahlusa. 



Jahlusa, Boisd., MS. 



Expands 2 in. 5 lin. 



Pale reddish-ochreous, with transverse rows of black spots. 

 Fore-wing : ground-colour deeper in tint near base ; in 

 discoidal cell a small black spot, succeeded by a curved, 

 elongate, black mark ; a narrow, black streak at extremity of 

 cell ; immediately beyond it, a small, quadrate, black spot ; 

 two spots below median nervure ; a transverse row of six 

 spots of the same colour, beginning on costa beyond middle, 

 and curving towards basal half of inner-margin ; from costa, 

 near apex, a transverse row of six spots of the same colour, 

 beginning on costa beyond middle, and curving towards basal 

 half of inner-margin ; from costa, near apex, a transverse, 

 blackish, macular streak, succeeded by a row of blackish, 

 lunular spots, running parallel and close to hind-margin. 

 Hind-wing : several small black spots in central portion ; 

 near and parallel to hind-margin, a row of broad, black 



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