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tlie species named. Fore-wing : two basal and two sub-basal small dark- 

 purple spots, two on costa and the other two in discoidal cell ; first 

 stripe from costa as usual ; second, about middle, wholly different, 

 being transverse instead of outwardly oblique, and not longer than the 

 first, terminating abruptly (with a dark-pui'ple edging) just below 

 median nervure ; costal spot as usual ; third stripe from costa very 

 much longer, roughly parallel with hind-margin as far as submedian 

 nervure, irregular, in some specimens even interrupted on third median 

 nervule ; inner submarginal streak commencing with a costal spot and 

 widening into a similar spot on third median nervule, when it almost 

 touches a projection of the third stripe ; outer streak linear, close to 

 hind-margin. Hind-iving : sub-basal row of spots as in MasililMzi, 

 but the spots larger ; three smaller basal spots better marked ; long- 

 central oblique angulated stripe having same direction as usual, but 

 irregular and more or less interrupted on second subcostal and third 

 median nervules ; second stripe in usual position, but curved inwardly, 

 aiid touching, or even occasionally confluent with, first stripe at the latter's 

 points of interruption ; inner submarginal streak replaced by a stripe 

 similar to the others, which (as in Etolus, Cram.) is widened about the 

 middle, and there meets both the extremity of the second stripe and the 

 angulation of the first, and from the latter point is itself narrowed and 

 angulated to inner margin ; outer submarginal streak obsolete except 

 near apex and anal angle ; at the latter two black spots, of which the 

 upper one is silvery-spangled ; immediately bordering outer edge of 

 lower part of submarginal stripe some bright-orange scaling. 



$ Blue much 2oaler, without p)urple lustre. Fore-wing : first short 

 ochre-yellow stripe much reduced, second and third more even and 

 wider than in ^. Hind-w%ng : inclining to whitish on upper part of 

 disc, rendering the dusky stripes less indistinct ; submarginal bluish 

 streak whiter and broader. Under side. — As in ^. 



The specimen, of which the under side is figured by Hewitson, has 

 all the stripes of a faded greyish ochre-yellow instead of dark-purple ; 

 he gives Natal as its locality. Two similar ^ s (one with the stripes 

 rather darker) were sent to me by Colonel Bowker from Griqualand 

 West. 



This species, most like Natalcnsis on the upper side, is nearer to 

 Masilikctzi on the under side, but may at once be distinguished from 

 both by the shortness of the second and length of the third stripes in 

 the fore-wings (just the reverse of the corresponding markings in those 

 species, and indeed in the other South-African Aplmcci), and by the 

 irregularity and crowding together of the stripes of the hind-wing. 



This is by no means a common species, the Transvaal territory seeming to 

 be its metropolis. It occurs as far north as the Makalaka country. 



Mr. W, Morant captured specimens near Potchefstroom at the end of 

 February, and Mr. F. C. Selous in the North-West Transvaal in February and 

 March. Wallengi-en's full description is taken from a single individual cap- 

 tured in the Transvaal by Mr. N. Person. Mr. H. L. Feltham notes it as 



