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and third median nervules, and defined, partly internally and 

 wholly externally, with a line of dark-brown, the external 

 line commencing on costa and slightly inclining inwards as 

 far as third median nervule : black apical ocellus touching 

 outer fulvous, ovate, bipupillate with bluish, and with an 

 incomplete, indistinct, yellowish-grey ring. Hind-iving : an 

 indistinct dark-brown line near and parallel to hind-margin ; 

 touching its inner edge, between first and third median 

 nervules, a small fulvous patch, enclosing two small, black, 

 white-unipupillate ocelli, very variable in size, and all but 

 obsolete in some examples. Under-side. — Costa and apical 

 region of fore-wing indistinctly, whole of hind-icing con- 

 spicuously, zvhitish-greg, hatched with short dark-brown 

 lines. Foreioing : fulvous paler, the two patches more 

 completely confluent, but the inner brown edging of the 

 outer patch often well-marked ; ring of ocellus more distinct 

 and complete. Hind-ioing : three irregular, transverse, brown 

 streaks, — one crossing cell between middle and base, occa- 

 sionally rather indistinct, — one median, much zigzagged, 

 always strongly marked, — the third regularly dentate, near 

 hind-margin, sometimes a good deal obscured by the brown 

 hatching, which is densest along hind-margin ; between 

 median and outer streak (but nearer the latter) three ocelli, 

 usually with suffused brownish clouding, two answering to 

 those on upper-side, the third between two subcostal nervules ; 

 the latter ocellus often, and all three occasionally, quite 

 wanting. 



This species differs chiefly from E. Hippia, Cram., in its double fulvous 

 patch, much smaller, incompletely-ringed ocellus, and dark-brown line of 

 fore-wing, and much smaller fulvous marking of hind-wing ; and beneath, 

 in its triple-streaked, whiter hind-wing. The antennae have a more slender, 

 gradually-formed club, and are much more conspicuously white-ringed, 

 especially beneath. The $ s I have seen are all smaller than the $ s. 



Var. A. — Much darker : the fulvous patches in fore-wing 

 much smaller, separated by a wide space of ground-colour, 

 brown edging of outer one conspicuous. Under-side. — 

 Nervures at apex of fore-wing and throughout hind-wing 

 striking}]) white : ground-colour ochreous-brown, very finely 

 irrorated with darker atoms. Fore-ioing : fulvous as usual. 

 Hind-wing : three streaks dark and well defined, the median 

 one more sinuate than angulated ; space between median and 

 outer streaks of the ordinary whitish-grey, with three addi- 

 tional ocelli, making a row of six. (These extra ocelli are 

 marked on upper-side by minute white dots.) 



This beautiful variety was taken near Cape Town by Mr. T. W. Palin, 

 and is so strikingly marked that any one would take it at first sight to be a 



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