136 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



lioaiy towards base ; sexual badge near base conspicuous, consisting of 

 a fuscous spot in a shining grey ring. Under side. — Soft palc-greij, 

 with thin ferruginoiis-oclireoiis strim ; in both wings a short stria closing 

 discoidal cell, and two long ones beyond middle, of which the inner is 

 continuous and well defined, the outer sub-lunulate and rather faintly 

 marked ; hetivccn these two stricc some white suffusion, in fore-wing only 

 towards inner margin, but in hinel-ioing from costa to inner margin. 

 Hind-wing : before middle a third stria, irregular and angulated, well 

 defined, extending from precostal to submedian nervure ; first stria 

 beyond middle very irregular, almost meeting the outer one between 

 first median nervule and submedian nervure, where it is sharply deflected ; 

 a little before its inner-marginal extremity a small detached marking of 

 the same ferruginous-ochreous ; between the two hind-marginal spots 

 some rather conspicuous greenish-silvery scaling. 



^ Very similar to $ ; the Hue scarcely duller ; the fuscous hordering 

 rather decrhcr, and in parts broader or narrower. Fore-wing: costal 

 grey less pronounced, mixed with fuscous ; apical border not so wide, 

 not reaching to extremity of cell ; hind-marginal border rather wider, 

 especially at anal angle. Hind-wing : costal and apical border darker 

 and considerably broader; a sub-marginal and hind-marginal row of 

 faintly marked fuscous spots, the latter row in line with the usual three 

 black spots, which are more strongly marked than in the ^. Under 

 SIDE. — Quite as in ^, but slightly duller in tint, inclining to brownish, 

 and with the white clouding beyond middle less distinct. 



This species should be placed next to /. Ceres (Hewits.) On the 

 under side it differs from that species in being wholly devoid of any 

 rufous tinge or brown basal clouding ; in having the transverse strife 

 beyond middle more regular and closer together ; in wanting altogether 

 the conspicuous lunular streak in the discoidal cell of the fore-wings ; 

 in possessing a continuous transverse stria before the middle of the 

 hind-wings, instead of one broken into six or seven portions ; and in 

 wanting the conspicuous orange lunule which adjoins the upper hind- 

 marginal spot of the hind-wings. 



' Mr. Henry I. Atherstone sent me two females of this butterfly as long 

 ago as the end of 1863, having taken them at Rockdale and New Year's 

 River, near GrahamstoAvn, in August and November of that year. From 

 the circumstance of finding one of them in company with /. Boakeri, mihi, 

 Mr. Atherstone imagined the two to be sexes of one species. In 1865 Mr. 

 J. H. Bowker sent a male from the neighbourhood of the Tsomo River, in 

 Kaffraria Pi'oper, and noted it frequenting J car" /« trees, and, like I. Boivl-eri, 

 having the habit of lighting in among the branches and settling on dry 

 twigs, where it was easily taken with the fingers. This is the only ^ of the 

 insect that I have seen,i but three otliers, $ s, have reached me fi'om Mrs. 



^ I have since received another i, taken in 1S84 by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson near 

 Estcourt, Natal. This example differs from Colonel Bowker's in being of a brighter blue 

 above. I have also seen a third, from " Kaffraria," belonging to Mr. H. Grose Smith, and 

 a fourth, taken by Mr. F. C. Selous, a little N. of Bamangwato (River Tauwani). 



