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nervure, where it is sharply deflected; a little before its 

 inner-raarginal extremity, a small detached marking of 

 the same ferruginous-ochreous ; between the two hind- 

 marginal spots some rather conspicuous greenish-silvery 

 scaling. 



$. Very similar to $; the Mice scarcely duller; the 

 fuscous borderijiy rather darker, and in parts broader or 

 narroicer. Forewing: costal grey less pronounced, mixed 

 with fuscous ; apical border not so wide, not reaching to 

 extremity of cell; hind-marginal border rather wider, 

 especially at anal angle. Hindicing : costal and apical 

 border darker and considerably broader; a sub-marginal 

 and a hind-marginal row of faintly marked ftiscous spots, 

 the latter row in line with the usual three black spots, 

 which are more strongly marked than in the $ . Under- 

 side. — Quite as in $ , but slightly duller in tint, incKning 

 to bro^Tiish, and with the wliite clouding beyond middle 

 less distinct. 



This species should be placed next to /. Ceres, Hewits. 

 {III. D. Lep. Lyccen. ii. p. 39, pi. xvii., f. 63), recorded 

 as a native of the Zulu Country. Mr. Hewitson does not 

 figure the upperside of the species named, and his descrip- 

 tion of that surface is too brief and general to be of 

 service, but judging from his figiu'e and description of the 

 underside, /. Mimoscs differs in being whoUy devoid of any 

 rufous tinge or brown basal clouding ; in having the trans- 

 verse strife beyond middle more regular and closer together ; 

 in wanting altogether the conspicuous limidar streak in the 

 discoidal cell of the forewings ; and in possessing a con- 

 tinuous transverse stria before the middle of the hindwings, 

 instead of one broken into six or seven portions; and in 

 wanting the conspicuous orange lunule which adjoins the 

 upper hind-marginal spot of the hindwings. 



Mr. Henry I. Atherstone sent me two females of this 

 butterfly as long ago as the end of 1863, having taken them 

 at Rockdale and New Year's River, near Grahamstown, 

 in August and November of that year. From the cir- 

 cumstance of finding one of them in company with 

 /. Bowkeri, mihi, Mr. Atherstone imagined the two to be 

 sexes of one species. In 1865, Mr. J. H. Bowker sent a 

 male from the neighbourhood of the Tsomo River, in 

 Kafii'aria Proper, and noted its fi-equenting Acacia trees, 

 and, like /. Bowkeri, having the habit of lighting in 

 among the branches and settling on dry twiixs, where 



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