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portion of it always marks end of cell, where It is often 

 confluent with the more regular, broader, and better-defined 

 discal row ; two or three indistinct brownish spots near base. 

 Cilia white or whitish, interrupted with dull-blackish. 



? . Similar, but ochreous much clearer) so that the black 

 spots are more conspicuous ; borders brownish. Fore-wing : 

 spot at end of cell often divided, sometimes confluent with 

 discal row on first median ; no grey space at origin of median 

 nervules. Hind -wing : a streak closing cell sometimes 

 visible. UNDER-SIDE. As in $ , but markings of hind-wing 

 sometimes better marked. 



Var. A, $ and ? (Z. Basuta, Wlgr.). 



$ . Ochrey-fuscous throughout, the black markings incon- 

 spicuous. Fore-wing : immediately beyond spot closing cell 

 a whitish spot, and, outwardly edging very indistinct discal 

 macular row, a series of six or seven dull-whitish spots (these 

 whitish markings take the place of ochreous in typical form). 

 Hind-wing : all but spotless, only very faint traces of a paler 

 space and the usual dark spots. UNDER-SIDE. Markings 

 very thin and faint ; disc of fore-wing whitish, with all spots 

 separate and very small) and an additional spot near base in 

 cell; in both wings a submarginal row of small blackish 

 spots. Hind - wing : rows of spots very inconspicuous 

 (sometimes scarcely distinguishable) but less irregularly 

 arranged, and the spots more separate, those near base forming 

 a third, curved, transverse row. Cilia greyish, very indistinctly 

 varied with fuscous. 



? . Darker, the black spots of fore-wing very dark and 

 confluent, the pale conspicuously white ; those of hind-wing 

 more apparent. UNDER-SIDE.: Disc of fore-wing much 

 whiter, spots of hind-wing much better defined ; submarginal 

 row of dots more distinct. 



Different in aspect as the Kaffrarian variety is from the type of 

 Protumnus, it is indubitably the same species. At the Knysna, where the 

 insect is extremely abundant, a strictly intermediate form, and that only, is 

 found, in which tbe $ is almost concolourous fuscous with scarcely a tinge 

 of ochreous, and the ? exhibits pale dingy -ochreous colouration in fore-wing. 

 At Plettenberg Bay another gradation of the species, considerably nearer 

 to the type, occurs, in which the $ has markings of very dull pale-ochreous. 

 while the ? (single specimen) is coloured like the typical ? , but has all 

 hind-wing, except apical border and the usual spots, ochreous.* In the 

 Knysna form the outer macular row of under-siae of hind-wing is quite 

 regular, and the spots of the submarginal row, both in this and in the 



* This gradation of the Butterfly presents in both sexes, on the 

 under-side of hind-wing, dark macular bauds, and also a peculiar, very dark 

 longitudinal streak occupying upper region of cell and abruptly angulated and 

 terminated at its extremity. 



