72 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Exp. al., I in. 5-9 lin. 



$. Dull-broivn, each wing tvith a discal transverse row of rather 

 dull ochrey-red, hlack-centred spots. Fore-iving : swollen base of costal 

 nervure oclirey-red ; five spots of discal row confluent, forming a toler- 

 ably broad band near liind-margin. Hind-wing : spots of discal row 

 three to five (the two upper ones often wanting), smaller than in fore- 

 wing, quite separate, the last (close to anal angle) bipupillate ; in some 

 examples a more or less distinct thin white line, black-edged on both 

 sides, on inner and hind margins near anal angle. Under side. — Very 

 closely striated transversely with numerous irregularly-conjluent, slender, 

 alternate, very pale-yellowish and fuscous streaks ; spots of transverse discal 

 row bright ochrey-yellow with hrilliant-silvery centres. Fore-iving : swell- 

 ing of costal nervure ochrey-yellow ; all inner-marginal area below 

 median nervure and first median nervule dull-fuscous without any pale- 

 yellowish striolation ; band of confluent spots edged with fuscous on 

 both sides ; hind-marginal border beyond spots pale-yellowish, almost 

 free from any black striolation, but with two well-defined, almost paral- 

 lel, black linear streaks from costa to a little below first median ner- 

 vule. Hind-wing : transverse striolation extends to inner-marginal 

 edge ; five spots of discal row much larger than on upper side, con- 

 tiguous, finely black-edged ; an additional, similar, larger spot before, 

 and apart from, the row of five, between subcostal nervules ; submar- 

 ginal black linear streaks as in fore-wing, but the inner one slightly 

 sinuate-dentate. 



$. Paler, the striolation of the under side vaguely perceptible; ochrey- 

 red spots larger ; in fore-wing more suffused, and forming a broader band ; 

 in hind-wing not fewer than four {iisually five), sometimes contiguous. 

 Under side. — Fore-iaing : the general striolation extending to inner 

 margin. 



Specimens of both sexes taken at Delagoa Bay by Mrs. Monteiro are smaller 

 and darker than those which I met with in Natal ; and in one ^ the spots of 

 the fore-wing on the upper side are very small, and those of the hind-wing 

 obsolete except that close to anal angle. It is very singular that in all the six 

 examples (three of each sex) captured by Mr. H. Barber in the Northern Trans- 

 vaal, in a $ obtained on the Upper Limpopo by Mr. E. C. Selous, and also in 

 a 9 taken by the former gentleman in the Matabele country, the inner of the 

 two submarginal linear black streaks is in the fore-wing rather sharply dentate 

 (instead of being nearly straight), and in the hind- wing quite deeply festooned 

 (instead of being sinuate-dentate). I find the same peculiarity noted as present 

 in the single specimen (a ^ ) brought by the late Mr. C. J. Andersson from 

 Damaraland ; but none of the Delagoa Bay examples exhibit it, nor does it 

 appear in the figure of the female obtained at Inliambane by the Peters Expe- 

 dition. I cannot discover that this feature is associated with any other dis- 

 tinction in the specimens possessing it, except a slight tendency to more con- 

 fluence in the black striolse of the under side generally. 



The remarkable beauty of the under side of this butterfly is'in striking con- 

 trast to the dull Urebia-like colouring of the upper side, and at once distin- 

 guishes Panda from all the other South-African Satyrince. Its only known 

 congener (P. Leda, of Gerstaecker, from Mombas) is of totally different aspect, 

 owing to all tlie field of the wings being pure white ; the upper side having an 



