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from base to beyond middle, sometimes extending upwards into cell ; 

 just beyond end of cell an orange spot, sometimes very indistinct; in 

 some specimens a faint trace of a second orange spot a little beyond 

 the other ; more rarely these two markings are developed into short 

 stripes (of which the inner is oblique and longer), and in one specimen 

 they are confluent above second median nervule ; occasionally a third 

 yellow mark in discoidal cell. Hiiul-iving : blue leaves a tolerably 

 broad costal, hind-marginal and inner-marginal dark border; hind- 

 marginal border containing a bluish lunular line near anal-angular 

 projection, which is orange-yellow, marked with two silvery-dotted black 

 spots ; tails black, orange at base and white at tip. Under-side. — 

 Pale whitisli-yclloiu, with gold-lined, purplc-hordcred, hlack-edgcd trans- 

 verse fasciae ; common to both wings, a fascia from costa before middle 

 (confluent on median nervure with a black basal patch), extends across 

 hind-wing to before anal angle, whence it is angulated to about middle 

 of inner mai'gin, — a fascia from costa about middle (becoming dull and 

 gradually obsolete below second median) to third median nervule of 

 hind-wing beyond middle, — two submarginal purplish strias (of which 

 the inner commences with a costal gold spot) becoming confluent and 

 bright-orange, with a gold streak before anal angle of hind-wing, — and 

 a hind-marginal, black, edging line. Forc-iving : at base, two j)urple 

 spots, and a short transverse streak a little beyond them, not gilt ; 

 beyond second fascia, a costal spot and a fascia from costa to third 

 median nervule, coloured like other fascia3. Hind-iving : seven spots, 

 of which the larger have gilt centres, in basal area ; anal-angular pro- 

 jection of gT'ound- colour, its black spots very conspicuous ; a rcmarlcahle 

 longitudinal fold, clothed with silky pale-brown hairs, runs from base 

 between median and submedian nervures as far as orange colouring 

 before anal angle. 



$ Paler ; Uue much duller and ^j«/(^r, without inirple gloss. Fore- 

 wing : orange spots beyond cell larger, sometimes expanded into trans- 

 verse hands, sometimes confluent on median nervules ; a short dull- 

 whitish band before them, crossing cell and joining blue. Hind-wing : 

 a dusky band from costa crosses a dull- whitish space before hind- 

 marginal border ; anal-angular orange pale and dull ; lunular marginal 

 line ivhite. Under side. — As in $. 



•In this beautiful Aplinceus, while the under-side pattern is most constant, 

 the upper side of the fore- wing is remarkably variable, especially in the (J , 

 as regards the ochre-yellow markings. In a series of ^ s before me there is 

 eveiy gradation, from uniform fuscous beyond the blue area to a development 

 of the yellow markings as full as in the allied A. Natalensis, Westw. In the 

 5 the markings in question are broader and always to some extent repre- 

 sented, but they are very often incomplete, and sometimes inclining to 

 whitish and suffused. 



I have noted under A. Natalensis the differences existing between that 

 species and A. Masilika::/. 



On the coast of Natal this butterfly is by no means rare. I always found 

 it in wooded spots, keeping about rather high bushes, and often settling on 



