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wing. Underside. — Varied with ferrnginoiis-brown and 

 pale oclire-yellow ; a conspicuous "patch of the latter in 

 foreiving on costal border beyond middle ; the sub-marginal 

 lunulated stria lilac-white, suffused ; the small black spots 

 of discal row all white-centred except the 4th and 5th of 

 the forewing ; a dark -brown streak curving inwardly, 

 commences suffusedly on sub-apical projection of forewing 

 and runs to anal-angular projection of hindwing. 



? . Closely resembles $ . Forexoimj : costa narrowly 

 suffused with ochreous throughout, the ferruginous-rufous 

 towards base and in disco-cellular strife more distinct than 

 in S; 3rd spot of discal row (as well as 1st and 2nd) 

 white-centred. Hindxcing : 3rd spot of discal row 

 minutely Avhite-centred. Underside. — That of one 

 example marked as in ^, and with the pale-ochreous 

 patch of forewing very conspicuous, but ivith bronzy 

 f/recnish-yrey replacing the ferrugiiious-broicn, and the 

 common dark stripe very strongly marked ; while that of 

 a second example is loholly j)ale-ferrngino7is with violace- 

 ous and bronzy reflections, with the common streak and 

 the discal spots faintly marked in dull cream-colour. In 

 outline of forewing the sub-apical projection is very long, 

 and dusted with bluish-white, while in the $ it is quite 

 short and without irroration. 



In colouring and marking this species bears a very 

 strong resemblance to P. Elgiva (Hewits.), but is at once 

 distinguishable ( 1 ) by the hindwings presenting a row of 

 simple black spots of small size on the upperside instead 

 of the multicoloured ocelli; and (2) by the deep indenta- 

 tion of the ochre-yellow band of the forewing on its inner 

 side. In outline, P. Tugela has the projections of the 

 wings in both sexes (I ^^ particidarly in the $ as regards 

 the forewings) very much longer. The species to which 

 Tugela seems actually most nearly allied (setting aside 

 the colour of the transverse band) are P. Pelarga (Fab.) 

 and P. Koicara (Ward) from West Africa ; both of 

 which present almost the same outline of Avings, descrip- 

 tion of spots in discal row, and inner indentation of the 

 band on the forcAvings. 



I know of only three examples of this butterfly, viz., 

 a $ taken by myself in Natal (at Krantzkop, Tunjumbili, 

 in 18G7), and two ?s from the TransA-aal (Leydenburg 

 District), in a fine collection formed by j\Ir. T. Ayres, and 

 lately acquired by the South African iMuseum. It is 

 probable that the species is not so rare as it might appear 



