i82 SOUTH- AFRIC AX BUTTERFLIES. 



creamy-oclircous, the nervules crossing border being ferruginous, witli 

 sliort white dashes from margin between them ; sjaots as in Pyrocis 

 (occasionally two first of discal row silvery-centred) ; submarginal 

 macular streak as in Pyrocis, of variable intensity. Hind-icing : pale 

 brownish-ochreous, clouded with darker-brownish, and spotted with 

 silvery liturce edged broadly wath ferruginous ; two elongate liturte 

 between costal and subcostal nervures, — another (sometimes like a V 

 reversed) closing and piercing far into cell, — occasionally a small silvery 

 dot both above and below this mark, — and a discal row of three double 

 ones, very singularly shaped (more or less resembling reversed W's) ; 

 hind-margin varied as in fore-wing. No black in cilia. 



$ Wings more rounded, not so dentate. Similar to ^, but Uae 

 of very much less extent and duller, being mixed with blackish ; ground- 

 colour rather paler and duller ; spots larger. Under side. — As in ^, 

 but paler and duller. 



Ahcrreition ^ {Hah. — Cape Town), Blue suffusion of unusual bril- 

 liancy and extent, completely obliterating all orange of fore-wing as 

 well as black spots, but leaving a very broad apical and hind-marginal 

 black border, edged outwardly by the usual small orange lunules ; while 

 in the liind-vnng the blue extends to beyond middle, but leaves a broad 

 even hiud-marginul border of orange. Under-side markings as usual, 

 but very dark in tint. Fore-Aving more acutely angulated than usual ; 

 hind-wing with unusually long anal-angular projection. 



This remarkable and very beautiful " sport " of Thyshe was taken on Table 

 Mountain by Herr Gross in 1865, and has been figured by Mr. A. G. Butler 

 (loc. cit.) 



Another somewhat similar ^ example was captured near Cape Town by 

 Mr. E. L. Layard (I believe in 1868), and is in the South-African Museum. 

 It is small (exp. ii^ lin.), and the bhie is even more developed than in the 

 specimen just described, leaving no trace whatever of orange in fore-wing, and 

 reducing that of hind-wing to an imperfect hind-marginal row of narrow spots. 

 On the under side the inner-marginal region of fore-wing is suffused with 

 blackish, and metallic spots are broadly black-ringed, while hind-wing generally 

 is darker than usual, with all the markings less distinct. 



The extent of the basal blue in the ^ Tlvjsbe varies considerably in the 

 "Western Districts of the Cape Colony, specimens taken on tlie coast having it 

 more developed than those found more inland, in which latter (from Berg River 

 Bridge, Roliertson, &c.) the blue nowhere reaches beyond middle, and in the 

 fore-wing discoidal cell is bounded by a small black spot some way before the 

 extremity. These inland ^ specimens are also smaller than the coast ones, 

 though I have not found the 9 s to be so ; but the under side is in both sexes 

 paler, with the ferruginoiis in the hind-wing much less developed. This latter 

 feature in some Western examples (including one from INIalmesbury) consti- 

 tutes quite a broad basal space and wide hind-marginal border, leaving little 

 more than a median band of the pale ground-colour. 



In Kaffraria Proper a different variation prevails, three $ s from the Bashee 

 River being of smaller size than the ordinary Western $ s, and having the blue 

 very broad, reaching in fore-wing from extremity of discoidal cell obliquely 

 quite up to hind-marginal black border at posterior angle, and in idnd-ieing 

 quite up to spots of discal row. The hind-marginal border is broader and more 

 even than usual in fore-wing (and with no orange lunules beyond it), and in 



