ovios. 427 



tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen orange with dorsal, lateral, 

 and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing pale yellow-green : 

 a black spot at base edged with white aiid a white patch above base 

 of vein 1 ; the costa irrorated with black to beyond middle, ex- 

 panding on medial area and to middle of cell between the stigmata, 

 the lines absent; a large wedge-shaped white patch in, just below. 







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Fig. 204. — Orios capensis, (^ . \. 



and beyond the cell, extending as a fascia on costa to apex ; 

 orbicular round, deep red edged with yellowish and a few black 

 scales and with some white scales in centre ; reniform a rather 

 narrow lunule, deep red edged with yellowish, its lower part and 

 upper extremity defined by black, some white in centre and in 

 lower part; a black point below costa towards apex; a broad 

 terminal white liand with diffused lunulate black line on it before 

 termen,with red patches on it l)elow costa and above inner margin, 

 and series of large terminal red lunules beyond it slightly defined 

 by white ; cilia whitish with a black lino through them. Hind 

 wing orange-yellow with large black discoidal lunule and subter- 

 minal series of rather triangular black spots interrupted at sub- 

 median fold. Underside of fore wing yellow with the orbicular 

 and reniform black ; traces of a curved postmedial line from costa 

 to vein 2, more prominent and diffused between veins 7 and 4. 



Hah. Natal, Karkloof { Marshall), 1 c? , Durban (Gueinziits), 1 J , 

 1 $ ; Cape Cot.ony, Pondoland, Nggeleni (Swwni/), 1 § , Caffraria 

 (Sii^ A. Smith, Trimen), 3 c? , 1 J . E.vj). 44-52 millim. 



4900. Ovios septeiitrionis, n. sp. (Tlate CXLYI. fig. 8.) 



2 . Head white mixed with black ; pal[)i orange witli lateral 

 black spots on the joints ; tegulaj orange at base, deep red at tips ; 

 thorax deep red; patagia white mixed witli black and fringed with 

 orange hair, the metathorax with some orange hair ; pectus and legs 

 orange, the fore and mid tibiie and the tarsi irrorated with black and 

 white ; abdomen orange with dorsal, lateral, and sulilateral seiies of 

 black s])ots, tiie basal crest red. Fore wing pale yellow-green ; the 

 base obliquely red, edged with white from below costa to inner 

 margin ; the costa irrorated with black to beyond middle, expanding 

 on medial area and between the stigmata to middle of cell ; the 



