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markings distinct, unth ivcll-dejincd wliitc edges. Forc-ning : no sub- 

 basal spots ; terminal disco-cellular lunule scarcely darker than ground- 

 colour ; discal row of six black spots, only slightly curved superiorly, 

 the first and fifth spots partly before the rest ; two submarginal rows 

 of almost straight white lunulate marks; a white hind-marginal line 

 immediately succeeded by a thin terminal black one. Hind-wing : 

 sub-basal row of four round black spots ; terminal disco- cellular 

 lunule, and all the spots of irregular discal row except the first and 

 last (eighth) — costal and iuner-mai'ginal respectively, which are black, 

 — of the ground colour ; lunules of two submarginal rows more acute 

 than in fore-wing, those of outer row forming imperfect rings with 

 hind-marginal white line ; three hind-marginal black spots marked 

 outwardly with a semicircle of brilliant gx^eenish-golden, the orange 

 lunules preceding them usually well- developed ; usually the nucleus of 

 a fourth spot in the form of greenish-golden scales, between third 

 median nervule and radial nervule. 



$ Similar, usucdly darker. Hind-unng : hind-marginal black spots 

 and adjacent orange-yellow lunules larger, the lowest lunule better 

 developed, and rarely a fourth small lunule just above third median 

 nervule ; in some European examples a row of small white lunules 

 precedes the orange ones. Under side. — As in ^, but all the mark- 

 ings better developed, especially (in hind-wing) the hind-marginal spots 

 and adjacent orange lunules. 



On the upper side this species, especially its $ , has much the appearance 

 of the $ L. Malialloliocena, Wallengr., but the row of from three to five 

 jewelled spots on the under side of the hind-wings constitutes an unmistake- 

 able distinction in TrochUus. The Rev. R. P. Murray (loc, cit.) has 

 separated a South-African examj)le, imder the species name of L. parva, 

 distinguishing the new form from Trocldlus " on account of its much smaller 

 size, and also from its presenting in both wings a series of white markings 

 immediately beyond the discal row of spots." But I find that not only is an 

 expanse of eight lines (which is that given by Mr. Mxu-ray for L. parva) the 

 viinimian size in South-African specimens of the (J , but that European 

 examples of TrochUus are often no larger, and sometimes smaller (seven 

 lines) ; and indeed, on the whole, taking a series of both sexes, the South- 

 African insect appears to be decidedly the larger of the two. The second 

 distinction is not to be found in any South-African specimen that I have 

 seen, the inner of the two ordinary submarginal rows of white lunules 

 succeeding the discal spots, as m typical Truchilus, in every case. 



When comparing South- African with ISTorthern specimens in 1881, I 

 thought, at first, that I had discovered a difference in the former as regards 

 both the smaller number of jewelled spots (three instead of four or five) and 

 the better developed adjoining orange lunules, but I found that the Northern 

 examples varied much in these very particulars, — two Egyptian ones not 

 differing from South-African individuals in which those characters are best 

 expressed. 



An aberration from the Wliite Nile, in the Hewitson Collection of 

 the British Museiun, has an orange-yellow bar in the fore-wings near the 

 posterior angle. 



The only example that I met with in Natal was flitting about grass in a 

 valley of the Great Noodsberg, on the iSth March 1867. The species has 



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