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nearly to, anal angle; cellular spot and discal row as in 

 Pyroeis, but the spots squarer ; a rather wide black costal 

 border from end of cell to apex, marked with three white 

 dashes between nervules ; joining it, a hind-marginal border 

 of variable width, sometimes entire up to cilia, but often with 

 an external lunulate orange edging. Hind-wing : blue not 

 extending beyond diseal row of spots, which are arranged as 

 Pyroeis; costal and hind-marginal border very much narrower 

 than in fore-wing, its latter portion often reduced to a row of 

 dots at ends of nervules j anal-angular projection long and 

 rather acute. Cilia white, interrupted with blackish mixed 

 with orange on dentations of margin. UNDER-S-TDK. 

 Fore-wing : orange-yellow ; eosta narrowly, apex broadly, 

 hind-margin rather widely bordered with pale creamy-ochreous, 

 the nervules crossing border being ferruginous, with short 

 white dashes from margin between them ; spots as in Pyroeis 

 (occasionally two first of discal row silvery-centred) ; submar- 

 ginal streak as in Pyroeis, of variable intensity. Hind-wing ? 

 pale brownish-ochreous, clouded with darker-brownish, and 

 spotted with silvery liturce edged with ferruginous " r two 

 elongate Iitura9 between costal and subcostal nervures, 

 another (sometimes like a V reversed) closing and piercing 

 far into cell, occasionally a small silvery dot below this 

 mark, and a discal row of three double ones, very singularly 

 shaped (more or less resembling reversed Ws) > hind-margin 

 varied as in fore-wing. No black in cilia. 



$ . Wings more rounded, not so dentate. Similar to , 

 but blue of much less extent and duller, being mixed with 

 blackish ; ground-colour rather paler and duller ; spots 

 larger. UNDER-SII>E. As in $ . 



Var. $ and ? (Palmus, Cram.). Without any trace of 

 blue gloss (except, perhaps, a few bluish hairs on a narrow 

 basal black suffusion, which extends along greater part of 

 inner-margin of hind-wing} ; ground-colour redder, more 

 glistening. UNDER-SIDE. As in typical specimens, perhaps 

 a little darker. 



I possess a very interesting $ of the Variety, taken near Cape Towi. 

 which has a faint but distinct blue lustre over the basal region of hind-wing 

 but is in every other respect completely Palmus. Some typical specimens 

 from Kaffraria show a very pale under-surface of hind-wing, the brown 

 clouding much tinted with bright-ferruginous, and the silvery markings 

 broad and blunted. From what I know of the distribution and localities of 

 the species, Palmus appears to be a distinct race. Near Cape Town, where 

 Thysbe proper does not occur, Palmus is by no means uncommon; at 

 Knysna both forms are found, but Thysbe proper is very much the rarer ; 

 while in Kaffraria, on the contrary, Palmus does not. seem TO exist, but 

 Thysbe (slightly differing from the Western examples) is often met with. 



