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The Cape Town specimens, in both sexes, have the upper side red 

 deeper in colour, and more restricted in area (especially as regards the 

 hind-wing) than those from more eastern localities.^ In the latter, 

 the red in both wings commences close to base, and in the hind-wing 

 always occupies basal half of costa, while in the fore-wing it is usually 

 confluent with the basal ochrey-yellow border of costa. In a very 

 large pair ($ I in. 6 lin., $ I in. 7^ liu.), which I took in Bain's 

 Kloof, on the Worcester side, the $ presents a very broad area of 

 bright orange-red, while the $, though the red is well developed 

 basally, has the dark border so enlarged as to cover the outer half of 

 each wing. Specimens from the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth, and 

 in a less degree those from near Grahamstown, are not only smaller 

 than usual, but exhibit on the under side of the hind-Aving rather 

 less irregularity in the discal whitish streak, and about the middle of 

 the submarginal streak a small but distinct whitish cloud or suffu- 

 sion.^ The paired sexes of this variation, captured in October 1879, 

 at Zwartkops railway cutting, were sent to me by Colonel Bowker. 

 Examples from Kaffraria Proper and Natal are also small, and in 

 them the very wide red field is decidedly paler and yellower, and on 

 the under side a more or less decided lake hue seems constantly pre- 

 sent, together with more glistening whitish markings in the hind- wing. 

 Cramer's figures (op. cit.) roughly represent a (^ in which the upper- 

 side orange is rather pale and of restricted area, and indented in both 

 wings by a disco-cellular dark spot ; the under side is of the purplish- 

 lake coloration, Hiibner's excellent illustrations are evidently from 

 Cape Town specimens ; they exhibit ^ s of both colorations, but Hiibner 

 has given the larger (lake beneath) as the ^. 



Pupa. — Dull yellowish-green ; back of thorax greener than the 

 other parts. Abdomen with a median dorsal dark-ashy streak. Spi- 

 racles raised, brownish. About half an inch in length ; thick, rounded, 

 smooth ; head blunt ; dorso-thoracic prominence elevated but blunt. 

 (Lying, quite free of any attachment or cocoon, under a stone, near 

 Cape Town, 27th September 1874.) 



The larva's skin, which still surrounded the tail of this pupa, was 

 dull-brown, rather closely set with short black (and some white) spines ; 

 the head rather large, shining dark-brown. 



A ^ imago emerged on 20th October. 



1 A remarkable 'exception occurs in a (J taken by M. L. ^Peringuey at Hex River 

 IMountain in the Worcester District, where the red is much more restricted than in any Cape 

 Town example that I have seen, forming in the fore-wing only a narrow discal ray, and in 

 the hind-wing only a discal patch wholly beyond middle. 



^ Very near these, but paler and duller generally, and with the whitish cloud much less 

 apparent, are a ? from Basutoland, and another (with border of fore-wing broader than 

 usual) from Griqualand West, both taken by Colonel Bowker. Two larger ? s from Little 

 Namaqualand are similar, but have the lake coloration on the under side. A small S from 

 the Eastern Transvaal has the fore-wing border remarkably narrow, and the striie of the 

 under side (lake) of the hind- wing glistening and unusually regiilar.__ 



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