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inner portion, powdered with grey atoms ; disco-cellular dot 

 distinct; no trace of inner-marginal band. Hind-wing : pale 

 creamy-ochreous, thickly irrorated with grey atoms ; disco- 

 cellular dot smaller than in Achine, less distinct, barelv tinged 

 with orange-yellow ; costa not edged with orange so far as in 

 Achine. 



$ . " Often rather smaller ; orange patch more sharply 

 indented outwardly, more broadly margined with black, 

 traversed in its broadest part by a sinuate black band ; base 

 of both wings powdered with dusky atoms; hind-wing 

 traversed by an arched sinuate band, commencing, as in allied 

 species, with a blackish spot on inner-margin of fore-wing. 

 UNDERSIDE. Fore-wing : white ; fulvous patch slightly 

 tinged with violet-grey ; base tinged with sulphur-yellow ; 

 a black spot on inner-margin. Hind-wing : reddish-grey, 

 with thinly-scattered brownish atoms ; and traces of the trans- 

 verse band on upper-side." JBoisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 572. 



Borders of woods. 



Xovember. 



The habits of the $ insect entirely correspond with those of A. Achine, of 

 which latter I am strongly disposed to consider it a variety. As far as 

 the $ insect is concerned, the only great difference between it and the same 

 sex of Achine, is the total absence of the longitudinal blackish bands. The 

 other slight differences noted are only of that nature which indicates 

 individual variation. With regard to the description of the ? , given by 

 Boisduval, there is nothing in it that will not apply to the ? of Achine, 

 excepting the character of the red being "more sharply indented than in the 

 $ , on its outer edge" the reverse of which is true in all the female 

 specimens of Achine that I have seen. His statement of the red being 

 " traversed " by a black band may refer to a specimen in which the red 

 extends within the inner black border, which, as I have noted in my 

 description of A. Achine, is not of rare occurrence in the finer specimens of 

 the ? of that species. As, however, it is impossible to decide in cases like 

 the present, without further knowledge of the several species of the Genus, 

 I think it only right to leave the doubtful Antevippe as a species; commending 

 the subject to the investigation of South African Collectors.* 



Knysna. Coll. mini. 



British Kaffraria. Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban. 

 Butterworth, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker) Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 Natal. Senegal. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



* Since the above was written, I have seen two indubitable specimens of 

 the $ , one captured by Mr. D'Urban, and the other by Mr. J. H. Bowker. 

 In both instances the sexes were taken in copula, and the # preserved as 

 well as the $ . Mr. D'Urban's specimen in no respect differs from ordi- 

 nary $ specimens of A. Achine ; but in Mr. Bowker'a example, the black 

 bands usually so predominant are very indistinct. A specimen intermediate 

 between these two examples is in Mr. D'Urban's collection. Little doubt 

 now exists in my mind as to Antevippe being simply a variety of the variable 

 Achine. I may add that Mr. D'Urban's observations have convinced him 

 that Antevippe is not distinct. 

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