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marks, both lino and marks bein<2^ strongest at submedian nerviiro 

 where tliey abruptly terminate. Hind-wing : a basal and inner-mar- 

 ginal band, irregularly dentate on its edges, leaving a very narrow 

 inner-marginal edging of white ; a second band, continuous of first 

 band of fore-wing, crossing obliquely from costa about middle to a little 

 distance before anal-angular lobe, where it narrows and coalesces with 

 extremity of inner-marginal band ; a third band, running parallel to 

 the second, is confluent at apex and about middle of hind-margin, with 

 a hind-marginal band similar to that of fore-wing, and near anal angle 

 with the second band ; no black traversing line in hind-marginal band, 

 but the white markings more continuous than in fore-wing. 



$ Without 2)urple gloss ; ydloiv-ochrcous marldngs in loth icings ; 

 basal region of wings irrorated with light-bluish scales. Fore-wing : 

 all the markings much more developed than in $ ; the quadrate cellular 

 marking more or less indistinctly produced into an oblique band, which, 

 on submedian nervure beyond middle, meets the extremity of the vari- 

 able but uninterrupted submarginal stripe ; the much-enlarged V-shaped 

 subcostal marking beyond middle is prolonged to join submarginal stripe 

 on second median nervule (in two specimens it is confluent with the 

 stripe). Hind-iving : inner-marginal region from base clothed with 

 light-bluish hairs ; a narrow submarginal yellow-ochreous stripe, com- 

 mencing indistinctly about first subcostal nervule, is joined between 

 third and second median nervules by an oblique wider stripe of the 

 same coloui', commencing on first subcostal nervule about middle. 

 Under side. — As in ^, but the transverse bands paler, and inclining 

 to an orangfe-ochreous tint ; whitish lunulate marks in hind-marginal 

 border much enlarged and suff'used. Fore-iving : extremity of third 

 band does not meet the second baud. Hind-wing : the inner-marginal 

 band is externally more irregularly dentate than in ^, a small portion 

 at origin of first median nervule forming a separate spot. 



This Aphncvus is distinguished from all its congeners except A. 

 Namaqmis by the silvcry-wliite, ground-colour of the under side of the 

 wings. The arrangement of the bands of the under side comes nearest 

 to that presented by A. JSfntalcnsis, Westw. On the upper side the ^ 

 is further remarkable for its rich purple gloss and want of discal blue, 

 and the $ for the great development of the yellow-ochreous markings, 

 particularly in the hind-wings. 



Mr. J. H. Lowker sent me a $ of this beautiful species from the Yaal 

 River, Griqualand West, in July 187 1, and has since forwarded three (J s and 

 three $ s from Klipdrift, on the same river. He notes the habits of the 

 insect as closely resemliling those of A. Natalensis. 



On the i8th September 1872 I captured a $ at Klipdrift; it was 

 settling on a high bush. 



I have not seen any other examples ; 1 and the only record I have met 



^ Mr. H. L. Feltham has lately (March 18S6) presented three specimens to the South- 

 African Museum, which wpre taken at Barkly (Klipdrift). He describes the butterfly as 

 very plentiful in that locality about the end of December 1S85. 



