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ward to inner margin Ly an elongate usually separate portion ; a large 

 costal spot just before apex, in contact or confluent with a vei-y 

 strongly angulated bar, wliicli, commencing just below apex, touches 

 or is confiiicnt icltli the central lar just beyond extremity of discoidal 

 cell, and between third and second median nervales becomes confluent 

 with a hind marginal border similar to that of fore-wing; the travers- 

 ing white-edged line of the hind-marginal border is more continuous 

 than in fore- wing ; black dots on anal-angular lobe more conspicuous 

 than on the upper side. 



$ IVifhout 2^'^<''U^^^ (/loss, only 'j^'^^cscniiiig a slight riolaccous suffusion 

 from hascs ; ycllow-oclircous markings strongly dcvcloj'cd in both u-ings. 

 Fore-wing : the yellow-ochreous markings much enlarged and pro- 

 longed inferiorly, so that the first and second are widely confluent 

 below first median nervule, and the second and third narrowly so 

 between third and second median nervules ; a faint yellow mark in 

 cell, near base. Jli/id-iring : the position of the silvery-white parts of 

 the under side is roughly indicated by suffused markings of yellow- 

 ochreous, viz., one in cell near base, one on costa near apex, one on 

 hind-margin below apex, and one (largest) on median nervules ; a 

 whitish line close and parallel to hind-mai*gin scaled with silvery on 

 anal-angular lobe. Under side. — As in ^, but the bars and spots 

 proportionally narrower, leaving more of the silvery-white ground- 

 colour unoccupied. 



(Described from ten ^ and one ^ specimens.) ^ 



This Aphmvus is a near ally of A. Fhanes, mihi (Trans. Ent. Sr)C., 

 1873, p. I I I, pi. i. figs. 4, 5), resembling the latter particularly in 

 the silvery-white ground colour of the under side, and the great 

 development of the yellow-ochreous bands on the upper side of the ^. 

 The chief difterence of importance is presented by the under side of tJie 

 liind-wing, in which, instead of being rather even and almost parallel, 

 the oblique bars are irregular and almost submacular, and tJce outer one 

 is so strongly angulated as to he eonjluent with the inner one near the end 

 of the discoidal cell. This arrangement breaks the silvery ground- 

 colour beyond the middle into three irregular markings, and gives the 

 under side an appearance quite different from that of other Ajjhncci. 

 Other distinctions from A. Fhanes are (in the ^) the very undeveloped 

 state of the ochreous fore-wing upper-side markings, which in one 

 example are very small and dull, and in another all but obsolete ; and 

 (in the $) the different arrangement of the hind-wing upper-side 

 markings, which in both species follow or correspond with the silvery- 

 white portions of the under side. In both sexes, the very dark eoloitr- 

 ing of the sjwts and hars of the tinder side is a marked distinguishing 

 feature. 



^ Four 9 examples, taken in Namaqualand by Mr. Peringuey during November 18S5, 

 closely resemble the one here described, only varying in the development of the outermost 

 yellow bar, which in two of them is in both wings much narrowed and interrupted. 



