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. Fuscous -brown, with a very slight purplish gloss, 

 fore-wing : a faint indication of a darker spot at end of cell. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Much paler. Fore-wing: a row of very 

 brilliant steely dots along costa, larger and dark-edged beyond 

 middle ; on hind-margin a row of five larger steely spots, 

 inwardly black-edged, between apex and third median nervule; 

 spot at end of cell large, ill-defined, dark-brown ; a little 

 beyond it a similar larger, subquadrate mark on discoidal 

 nervules, usually marked with some steely scales ; costa near 

 base and hind-marginal edge tinged with golden-ochreous. 

 Hind-wing : a central transverse band of glossy ochrey-brown, 

 of unequal width, marked on both its edges with steely 

 points (of which there are also a few in middle of stripe) ; a 

 good-sized similarly-hued spot in cell and two others on costa 

 before middle ; beyond middle, a row of five contiguous, 

 pale-edged, steely-centred ochrey spots, obsolete above second 

 subcostal nervule ; hind-marginal spots as in fore-wing, but 

 more conspicuous and occupying the whole length ; inner" 

 marginal and discal region thickly irrorated with violaceous- 

 white scales. Cilia greyish. 



? . Bases with bluish-grey hairs and scales ; in each wing 

 a discal space of white outwardly ill-defined. Cilia paler, 

 nearly white in hind-wing, inconspicuously interrupted with 

 fuscous. UNDER-siDE.-^Markings similar to $ , but white 

 occupies the ground, except on hind-margins and on costa of 

 fore-wing. Fore - wing : discal and cellular spots very 

 conspicuous, the latter confluent with a brownish space on 

 median nervure from base. Hind-wing : markings very 

 conspicuous on white ground. 



Many $ specimens taken by Mr. D'Urban are very much paler than 

 above described, while ? s corresponding with them have no white patch, 

 but a very pale greyish disc, gradually shading off into the narrow marginal 

 brownish in both wings. Beneath, in both sexes, the central band of hind^ 

 wing is more macular, it and all the spots being of the same golden-ochreous 

 as hind-marginal edge of fore-wing. In the latter wing the costal steely 

 dots are often inconspicuous or partly obsolete, and the large cellular and 

 discal spots not strongly marked. Mr. D'Urban, who was inclined to 

 consider this variety (often much smaller than the type) as a distinct 

 species, informed me that it occurred earlier in the season than the dark 

 specimens. 



" Abundant. Larva probably feeds on Theodora speciosa" D*Urban, 

 in litt. 



" September, October, and March to June." Id. 



"Among long dry grass, keeping a long time on the wing, and difficult 

 to take." J. H. Bowker, in litt. 



King William's Town (W. D'Urban). Coll. Tri. 

 Butterworth and Pashce River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker).. 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



