266 RHOPALOCEEA AFRIC-a?. AUSTRALIS. 



nearly to, anal angle ; cellular spot and discal row as irt 

 Pyroeis, but the spots squarer ; a rather wide black costal 

 border from end of cell to apex, marked with three white 

 dashes between nervules ; joining it, a hind-marginal border 

 of variable width, sometimes entire up to cilia, but often with 

 an external lunulate orange edging. Hind-wing : blue not 

 extending beyond discal row of spots, which are arranged as- 

 Pyroeis; costal and hind-marginal border very much narrower 

 than in fore-wing, its latter portion often reduced to a row of 

 dots at ends of nervules ; anal-angular projection long and 

 rather acute. Cilia white, interrupted with blackish mixed 

 with orange on dentations of margin. Under-side. — 

 Fore-wing : orange-yellow ; costa narrowly, apex broadly, 

 hind-margin rather widely bordered with pale creamy-ochreousy 

 the nervules crossing border being ferruginous, with short 

 white dashes from margin between them ; spots as in Pyroeis 

 (occasionally two first of discal row silvery-centred) ; submar- 

 ginal streak as in Pyroeis, of variable intensity. Hind-wing t 

 pale brownish-ochreous, clouded with darker-brownish, and 

 spotted with silvery liturce edged with ferruginous ; two 

 elongate liturae between costal and subcostal nervures, — 

 another (sometimes like a V reversed) closing and piercing 

 far into cell, — occasionally a small silvery dot below this 

 mark, — and a discal row of three double oneSj very singularly 

 shaped (more or less resembling reversed Ws) ; hind-margin 

 varied as in fore-wing. No black in cilia. 



$ . Wings more rounded, not so dentate. Similar to ^ , 

 but blue of much less extent and duller, being mixed with 

 blackish ; ground-colour rather paler and duller ; spots 

 larger. Under-side. — As in $ . 



Var. S and ? {Palmus, Cram.). Without any trace of 

 blue gloss (except, perhaps, a few bluish hairs on a narrow 

 basal black suffusion, which extends along greater part of 

 inner-margin of hind-wing) ; ground-colour redder, more 

 glistening. Under-side. — As in typical specimens, perhaps 

 a little darker. 



I possess a very interesting $ of the Variety, taken near Cape Towi.» 

 which has a faint but distinct blue lustre over the basal region of hind-wing 

 but is in every other respect completely Palmus. Some typical specimens 

 from Kaffraria show a very pale under-surface of hind-wing, the brown 

 clouding much tinted with bright-ferruginous, and the silvery markings 

 broad and blunted. Erom what I know of the distribution and localities of 

 the species, Palmus appears to be a distinct race. Near Cape Town, where 

 Thysbe proper does not occur, Pahmis is Dy no means uncommon; at 

 Knysna both forms are found, but Thyshe proper is very much the rarer ; 

 wliile in Kaffraria, on the contrary, Palmus does not seem ro exist, but 

 Thysbe (slightly differing from the Western examples) is often met with. 



