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some very Indistinct indications of a submarginal row of fuscous spots. 

 Hind-iving : a very indistinct (often all but obsolete) small fuscous 

 hind-marginal spot between first and second median nervules ; in some 

 of the paler examples faint indications of two or three similar, exter- 

 nally finely whitish-edged spots along lower hind-margin. Under 

 SIDE. — Broivnish-grcy (or greyish-hrown in the darher specimens) with 

 white-edged darher marlcmgs, in arrangement and character like those of 

 Ortygia, Trimen. Fore-iving : terminal disco-cellular mark not very 

 broad, reniform ; discal row more or less curved inward to first median 

 nervule, and then outward at its extremity, — commencing with a minute 

 spot on costa ; occasionally the third and fourth spots of this row, or 

 one of them, elongated inward so as to touch disco-cellular spot ; others 

 of the row sometimes much diminished or wanting altogether ; in one 

 specimen the lowest spot but one is prolonged inward ; inner sub- 

 marginal row of white lunules as in Ortygia, but occasionally indistinct ; 

 outer row forming with hind-marginal white line rings, whose outer 

 edges (opposite the white parts of the cilia) are usually widened and 

 conspicuous, much as in Asteris, Godt. Hind-wioig : short basal streak, 

 usually well developed ; three round, black, white-ringed spots in sub- 

 basal row ; two similar spots respectively at beginning and end of 

 discal row, but separate from it ; second spot of same row small, shaped 

 (and sometimes coloured) like the first ; fourth spot almost always 

 (third spot more rarely) confluent with terminal disco-cellular marking ; 

 inner row of acutely sagittiform white lunules usually well developed ; 

 outer one forming with white hind-marginal line larger, and usually 

 more complete rings than in fore-wing ; hind-marginal black spot small, 

 obscure, its bluish- silvery dots and yellow ring very faint or obsolete. 



^ Similar, and equally variable in tint of brown. Fore-wing : in 

 a few of the largest and darkest examples, on disc, between second 

 median nervule and submedian nervure, the faint imperfect bluish 

 linear outline of two elongate darker spots like those sometimes found 

 in Asteris. Hind-wing : hind-marginal fuscous spot often more dis- 

 tinct, — in two of the larger specimens rather conspicuously blue-centred 

 and very faintly yellow-edged inwardly, and in another slightly blue- 

 dusted and faintly bluish-edged inwardly. Under side. — As in ^, but 

 discal row in fore-wing more often imperfect or deficient in parts ; 

 outer submarginal row of lunules sometimes very faintly marked, 

 while inner row is occasionally suffused in both wings ; and sub-basal 

 row in hind-wing sometimes with four instead of three spots, — the 

 additional one being situated just below the second spot. Hind-wing : 

 often some whitish suffiised scaling near base. 



This species is'widely spread in South Africa ; it is readily recognised by 

 both sexes being of the same uniform brown on the upper side, and by its 

 being rather smaller in the $ , and much smaller in the $ , than the nearly- 

 related Ortygia and Asteris. The darkest (and also the largest) examples I 

 have seen are found in the Cape Peninsula, but some of these have a rufous 



