2i6 SOUTII-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



Transvaal exhibit an intermediate dcvelopnicut/ the spots in the fore- 

 wing of the ^ being enlarged and elongated, while those of the hind- 

 wing form a confluent band as broad as in the typical ^ ; and the same 

 markings in the $ are much widened, and in the fore-wing connected 

 with the base by a partly interrupted broad inner-marginal orange ray. 

 The examples in which these markings attain their utmost expansion 

 are from near Grahamstown and other localities in the Albany District, 

 where in the ^ the hind-wing band is sufFusedly extended towards base, 

 and in the ^ really occupies all the area except a more or less suffused 

 central costal patch and rather narrow hind-marginal border ; while 

 in the fore- wing the spots of the ^ are not much enlarged, but in the 

 ^ the inner- marginal orange is broad and uninterrupted almost to 

 base. 



In some examples of both sexes the whitish spots of the discal 

 row on the under side of the hind-wings are outwardly marked with 

 red. 



Larva. — Ashy-grey ; a dorsal central darker line bordered on each 

 side by a row of rather ill-defined whitish spots ; on each side infe- 

 riorly a row of round red spots — those along auterior half of body with 

 white marks between them. Head red. Rather sparsely set with 

 moderately-long ashy-grey hairs, and (apparently) with a shorter closer 

 clothing of ochrey-yellow hairs along the back and on each side ; 

 the long hairs apparently springing from series of tubercles. Length, 

 6 lin. " On a common species of grass, AntMstiria ciliafa." — M. E. 

 Barber. Plate II. ff. 2 (from drawings by Mrs. Barber). 



Pupa. — Pale-brown ; some darker lines indicating outline of limbs. 

 Under side smooth : a flat silken coating: covering most of abdominal 

 surface (only basal segment bare). Back and sides very hairy ; the 

 thorax and basal half of abdomen with tufts of short sandy and longer 

 whitish hairs; the terminal half with four rows (two dorsal and two 

 lateral) of tubercles supporting fascicles of very long bristly brown and 

 whitish hairs, the lateral tufts being the longest. Length, 5—6 lin. 

 — Plate II. flp. 2a (from my own drawings). 



The above descriptions are made from drawings (of the larva) and 

 specimens (of the pupa) received froin Mrs. Barber, who wrote that 

 these earlier stages of Amakosa were discovered by Miss Fanny Bowker 

 at Pembroke, near King William's Town. The caterpillars were feed- 

 ing on the grass above named, and were gregarious ; on a flat rock 

 beneath the grass numerous chrysalides were attached in a group, five 

 or six within a square inch, by a slight silken web ; and among several 

 of the butterflies close at hand there were some quite fresh from the 

 chrysalis and unable to fly. Mrs. Barber notes that the chrysalis state 



^ Two S s and a ? from the high country near the source of the Kraai River, in the 

 extreme north-east of Cape Colony, are smaller than usual ; in the cJ the hind-wing spots 

 are confluent, but form a very narrow stripe, and in the ? the orange is of considerable 

 width, but has scarcely any baseward extension in fore-wing, and none in hind-wing. 



