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costa about middle, reaching first subcostal nervule ; a small, 

 rounded spot in discoidal cell near base, and another close to 

 it, outside cell, below median nervure ; a very small disco- 

 cellular spot ; and two spots, forming one elongate transverse 

 mark, between second median nervule and submedian nervure, 

 in a line with the large projection from hind-marginal band. 

 Fringe of fore-wing brownish both above and below ; of 

 hind-wing, white above, greyish below. 



A female, in the collection of the South African Museum, is pale lemon- 

 yellow instead of white, with the inner edge of the hind-marginal bands 

 more deeply excavate than usual. On the under-side, also, the yellow is 

 deeper and richer than in other specimens, and the ferruginous spots broader. 



The following description of the male Cleodora is made 

 from two damaged specimens forwarded to me by Mr. 

 D'Urban, the only examples of this sex I have seen.* 



$ . Yellowish-white ; the hind-marginal black bands paler 

 and very much narrower than in ? . Fore-wing : hind mar- 

 ginal band not reaching to anal angle, diminishing to a point 

 at extremity of submedian nervure (projection on its inner 

 edge much more acute than in ? ), in its broadest portion, 

 from costa close to apex, an irregular, oblique patch of the 

 ground-colour. Hind-wing : hind-marginal band diminishing 

 to a point on submedian nervure, very much narrower than 

 in ? , the projection on its inner edge much sharper and 

 narrower. UNDER-SIDE. Quite like that of ? , excepting 

 the greater narrowness and shortness of the hind-marginal 

 bands : the silvery grey more apparent in the ferruginous 

 markings. 



" Abundant over the whole country (British Kaffraria) but flies so fast 

 that I have not been able to take as many as I wanted. September to 

 June." If Urban, in litt. 



This is a highly beautiful insect, the soft rich colouring of the under 

 surface being especially remarkable. It appears hitherto only to have been 

 found in the Colony of Natal.f M. BoisduvaPs note on this species, in the 

 Appendix to M. Delegorgue's work, states that K Cleodora is "very com- 

 mon in Mimosa woods." 



D'Urban, Natal (R. C. Jones). Coll. mihi. 

 Natal. Coll. S. A. Mus., and Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 Kingscote, near Bodiam, British Kaffraria. Coll. W. S. M. 

 D'Urban. 



" Bay of Port Natal."- Boisd. 



* Mr. J. H. Bowker has also taken a $ Cleodora in Kaffraria. This spe- 

 cimen is now in the South African Museum. 



f Since found in British Kaffraria, by Mr. D'Urban, who also saw it in 

 abundance at the Maitland Mines, near Port Elizabeth. 

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