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mostly rather ill-defined, glistening sub-metallic spots lolth dark edges. 

 Fore-wing : three disco-cellular spots, one below cell ; an irregular, 

 bi-angulated, oblique discal row of six, all black with brilliant silvery- 

 white centres ; a submargiual regular row of six spots, of which the 

 three superior are small and indistinct, but the three inferior large and 

 black, occasionally with minute silvery dots on their inner side. Hind- 

 %ving : three rather ill-defined transverse rows of small sub-metallic 

 spots, — the first of four or five before middle including a terminal 

 disco-cellular lunule, — the second of eight or nine discal, sinuate, irre- 

 gular, — the third submarginal, regular, but becoming obsolete supe- 

 riorly ; near base three glistening small spots, viz., one close to costa 

 and two in discoidal cell. 



$ Similar ; darJc borders broader. Fore-wing : border more deeply 

 excavating orange-yellow immediately beyond extremity of discoidal 

 cell, and sometimes emitting an ill-defined suS'used ray across median 

 nervules. Hind-wing : apical dark patch larger, usually a little suf- 

 fused ; anal-angular projection blunter. Under side.— As in $, but 

 all the spots usually better defined. 



In a $ which I captured at Knysna, in the Cape Colony, tlio dark border 

 of the fore-wing is so enlarged as to occupy the outer two-thirds of the whole 

 area, with the exception of a small indistinct discal orange-yellow spot ; and 

 the costal-apical patch of the hind-wing is much larger than usual, as well as 

 the spot near anal angle. ^ 



Specimens from the Basuto Territory and the Transvaal exhibit in both 

 sexes a narrower dark border, especially near the apex of the fore-Aving, where 

 it is, moreover, usually penetrated (in some cases almost divided) by an upward 

 projection or short ray from the discal part of the orange-yellow.- Examples 

 from tlie Coast of Natal resemble these, and some of the ^ s have the costal 

 part of the border of the fore-wing still narrower, Avhile in both sexes the anal- 

 angular projection of the hind-wing is longer. 



In colouring and in the extent of the orange on the upi>er side, Aranda 

 much resembles tlie Eastern specimens of Tliijra, Linn., but the under-side 

 markings, particularly those of the hind-wings, and the greater proportion 

 of silvery - centred spots on the fore-wings, show that it is more nearly 

 allied to Pierus, Cram., Tailwsama, Wallengr., and Almeida, Fekl, though 

 differing from all of these in the entire absence of the row of fuscous spots 

 close to the hind-margin. The anal-angular projection of the hind-wing is 

 much acuter and longer in Aranda than in its near allies ; the butterfly is also 

 the smallest of the group. 



I met with this species pretty commonly at Knysna in 1858-59 from the 

 middle of October to the middle of January, and again from the beginning of 

 IMarch to that of April. It was almost confined to the hills, frequenting dry 

 sandy spots, and in habits did not differ from its near congeners. In Feb- 



^ There are two similar but larger 9 s (unfortunately without locality) in the South 

 African Museum ; they have the bases, however, much suffused with fuscous-grey, so that 

 the orange is greatly obscured or obsolete on costa, and in the hind-wing as well as in the 

 fore-wing a more or less marked fuscous discal ray divides the orange. Two i s accom" 

 panying them have the orange redder, and reduced by wider dusky bases and dark boi'ders ; 

 in both there is an indication of the dark discal ray across the orange of each wing. 



- Of two 9 s from Kaflfraria Proper, one possesses and the other (the largest specimen I 

 have seen) does not possess this short orange ray. Both have the border of fore-wing 

 broadly developed, especially on costa beyond middle. 



