I20 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



concurrent pure white line, the latter widening into a white space on 

 anal-angular lobe ; two very indistinct dark spots just before the white 

 line, one above, the other below, first median nervule ; a third spot, 

 black, densely scaled with silvery-bluish and golden scales, on anal- 

 angular lobe, edged interiorly and exteriorly with pure white ; tails at 

 extremities of first median nervule and submedian nervure respectively 

 (of which the latter is nearly twice as long as the former), thin, black, 

 conspicuously fringed and tipped with pure white. Cilia of fore-wing 

 apparently greyish, of hind-wing i^ui'c white, both on hind and inner 

 margin. Under side. — White, with thin yelloio-ochreous strice ; in both 

 wings a short stria closing discoidal cell, and two transverse striae 

 (convergent downward, the outer one thinner and fainter than the 

 inner) beyond middle. Fore-ioing : the striae beyond middle commence 

 on costa, but do not reach inner margin, ending a little below submedian 

 nervure. Hind-iimig : elongate spot near base, below precostal nervure, 

 red ; the outer and inner stri^ meet below third median nervule, but 

 are thence independently deflected to inner margin ; the outer stria 

 becomes fuscous near the point of meeting with the inner, and is thence 

 black ; the usual hind-marginal spots between second and first median 

 nervules and on anal-angular lobe respectively, the former black, inwardly 

 bordered rather conspicuously with fulvous-yellow, the latter as on upper 

 side ; faint traces of a dusky line just before hind-margin, which is itself 

 very finely edged with black. 



$ White, with broad fuseous clouding and horders. Fore-wing: 

 fuscous basal clouding fills discoidal cell for about three-fourths of its 

 length, and extends below it to inner-margin, but does not reach beyond 

 middle ; fuscous border extends from base to anal angle, and is very 

 broad in apical region ; disco-cellular stria indistinctly marked, and 

 traces visible of the longer strise beyond middle. Hind-ioing : fuscous 

 clouding in basal region fills cell, and extends irregularly beyond, above, 

 and below it about to middle ; the two under-side stride strongly 

 marked, fuscous, suffused, not meeting, but Avidely separated, between 

 first median nervule and submedian nervure; some fuscous scaling 

 near apex ; hind-marginal and sub-marginal streaks and spots well 

 marked. Under side. — Quite as in ^, except that in the hind-wing 

 the two striae beyond middle, though approximating much more nearly 

 than on upper side, do not meet. 



This butterfly is a close ally of H. Fhilipjjus, Fab. In the $ it is 

 distinguished by the more pturple, less cupreous colour of the upper side, 

 and the conspiieuous white cilia of the hind-wings ; and in both sexes by 

 the whiteness of the under side, with its thinner, much straighter stride, 

 and by the longer tails of the hind-wings. 



The upper side of the $ is most strikingly difierent from the 

 brownish-grey colouring of that of the ^ Philippus, and the disparity 

 is almost as remarkable as that between the ^ s of Deudorix Antalus 

 (Hopff".), and D. Diodes, Hewits., the $ s of which can scarcely be dis- 



