LYa^XID^. 2i9 



Localities o^ D^Urhania Iwibaia. 



I. South' Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt and Bushman's River (./. M, Ilutcluu- 

 son). 



230. (3.) D'Urbania saga, Trimeu. 



<^ UUrhania saga, Trim., Trans. Eiit. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 354. 



Exp. al., {$) I in. 1-5 lin. ; (^) i in, 6 lin. 



^ Dark-broiv% ; a disced row of dull pale ochreous-yellotv elongate 

 spots in each vAng. Forc-vjing : discal row of five spots strongly in- 

 curved, so that the last spot (between first and second median nervules) 

 is rather nearer base than the first spot (immediately above first radial); 

 a faint indication of a sixth spot just below first median nervule; a 

 row of three small and very indistinct spots of the same colour a little 

 beyond and parallel with upper part of discal row ; at extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell a scarcely perceptible ochreous-yellow spot, preceded by a 

 similar not quite so indistinct marking in the cell not far from its 

 extremity. Hind-u-ing : discal row of five spots usually not so dis- 

 tinct as in fore-wing, not curved, but rather irregular, — the first and 

 second spots sublinear and rarely confluent, — the second being much 

 longer than any of the others, — the last (below first median nervule) 

 minute. Cilia of both wings dark-brown, conspicuously interrupted 

 with white between the nervules. Under side. — Dark-brown, varie- 

 gated with whitish. Fore-iving : first spot of discal row small, white, — 

 the remainder larger than on upper side, acuminate exteriorly, and of a 

 paler yellow ; in discoidal cell a longitudinal whitish streak from base 

 and a terminal whitish spot ; between end of cell and discal spots h 

 transverse row of three short whitish rays ; spots beyond discal row 

 distinct, white ; three or four small white marks between nervules on 

 costal edge beyond middle. Hind-icing : a conspicuous irrcgidar discal 

 white stripe, well defined internally, but not externally, and very sharply 

 angidated on radial nervule ; the following whitish marks before discal 

 stripe, viz., one on costa at base, one in discoidal cell at base, and another 

 just before extremity of cell, confluent with one immediately above it 

 on costa ; between white stripe and hind-margin a row of thin inter- 

 nervular lunules, inwardly bordered by dark sagittiform marks. 



^ Similar, larger ; spots on upper side larger and deeper in colour. 

 Under side. — Duller ; all the whitish markings much reduced, espe- 

 cially the stripe in hind-wing, which is not nearly so widely sufiused 

 exteriorly. 



Though a close ally of the very variable D. Amahosa, Trim., this 

 species may at once be distinguished by the conspicuous sharply-angu- 

 lated white stripe on the under side of its hind-wings. The under side 



