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prolonged, \Yitli an inward curve, to first median nervule ; cellular grey 

 marks indistinctly prolonged below median nervuro ; costal spots of the 

 ground-colour distinct ; apical grey border intersected by two macular 

 streaks of tlie ground-colour from costal edge, joining the ground- 

 colour at their lower extremity ; the outer of these rows is the longer, 

 composed of more lunulate, often united spots, and situated immediately 

 before the hind-marginal narrow grey edging. Hind-vAng : reddish- 

 ochreous spots arranged in five transverse rows at about equal distances 

 apart, viz., the first, near base, of five minute elongated spots ; the 

 second, before middle, of five or six linear more or less united sjDots ; 

 the third, about middle, conspicuous, very irregular, of eight elongate 

 spots touching each other and edged with blackish (which is suffused 

 exteriorly) ; the fourth and fifth each of seven separated sagittiform 

 spots, the outermost row corresponding with that on hind-margin of 

 fore-wing ; a spot at extremity of cell ; three spots at base, Antennce 

 ringed alternately with black and white. 



$ Ground-colour the same, hut costal Uctckish hordcring of fore- 

 wing to hcyoncl middle reduced to three or four small duslii/ spots on edge 

 of costa, the outermost and darhest of uiliich rcjyrescnts the cthrupt ter- 

 mination of the border ; apical portion of border narrower and duller 

 than in ^, and usually terminating hind-margiually on second median 

 nervule. Under side. — As in ^. 



There is a little variation as regards the reddish-fuscous hind- 

 marginal edging on the upper side of the hind-wing, which in both 

 sexes is sometimes slightly widened and with more or less marked 

 inward projection on nervules. Two specimens from Zanzibar iu the 

 Hewitson Collection are rather paler than the typical examples. 



This very distinct little species appears to have no near congener. The 

 pattern of the upper side and its colouring are not dissimilar from those of the 

 5 s of Z). Amaliosa, Trim., in which the orange is more than usually developed, 

 but the under side is very different from that of any other D'Urhaiiia. 



I originally described Aslauga from a $ lent to me in 1869 by Mr. W. 

 Morant, who took it in his garden at Pinetown, Natal, on the 19th May in 

 that year. Mr. W. D. Gooch informed me that he had noticed it near D'Urban 

 very rarely, but I did not receive any more specimens until the end of 1878, 

 when Colonel Bowker sent seven $ s and three $ s, captured near that town 

 on the 30th November and ist December. The latter observer wrote that the 

 butterfiy was local, but of sociable habits, frequenting dry vine-stems and 

 dead branches and twigs at about ten feet from the ground, and settling in 

 little groups, repeatedly opening and closing the wings towards the sunshine. 



Localities oi UUrlania Aslauga, 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal 



a. Coast Districts. D'Urban (/. //. BowJcer). Pinetown (TF. Morant). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



b. Eastern Coast. — Zanzibar. — Hewitson Coll. 



