86 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



margin. Forc-ioing : a deep fulvous patch occupies, and sometimes 

 extends a little below, discoidal cell, and is usually confluent at inser- 

 tion of median nervules with a larger patch of the same colour, lying 

 between fifth subcostal and third median nervules, and defined, partly 

 internally and wholly externally, with a line of dark-brown, the external 

 line commencing on costa and slightly inclining inwards as far as first 

 median nervule ; black apical ocellus touching outer fulvous, ovate, 

 bipupillate with bluish, and with an incomplete, indistinct, yellowish- 

 grey ring. Hind-ioing : an indistinct dark-brown line near and parallel 

 to hind-margin ; touching its inner edge, between first and third median 

 nervules, a small fulvous patch, enclosing two small, black, white uni- 

 pupillate ocelli, very variable in size, and all but obsolete in some 

 examples. Under side. — Costal and ajncal area of fore-wing indis- 

 tinctly, whole of hind-wing conspicuously, ivhitish-grey, hatched with 

 short dark-brown lines. Fore-wing: fulvous paler, the two patches 

 more completely confluent, but the inner brown edging of tlie outer 

 patch often well-marked; ring of ocellus more distinct and complete. 

 Hind-wing : three irregular, transverse, hrow^i streaks, — one crossing 

 cell between middle and base, occasionally rather indistinct, — one 

 median, much zigzagged, always strongly marked, — the third regularly 

 dentate, near hind-margin, sometimes a good deal obscured by the 

 brown hatching, which is densest along hind-margin ; between median 

 and outer streak (but nearer the latter) three ocelli, usually with 

 suffused brownish clouding, two answering to those on upper side, the 

 third between two subcostal nervules ; the latter ocellus often, and all 

 three occasionally, quite wanting. 



This species differs from P. vigilans, Trim., in its double fulvous patch, 

 much smaller, incompletely-ringed ocellus, and dark-brown line of fore-wing, 

 and much smaller fulvous marking of hind- wing ; and beneatli, in its triple- 

 streaked whiter hind-wing. The antennae have a more slender, gradually- 

 formed club, and are much more conspicuously white-ringed, especially beneath. 

 The 5 s as a rule are smaller than the $ s, and the fine dark-brown striolse are 

 much closer and more evenly distributed all over the hind-wing. 



Yar. a. (^ and $). 



Larger (exp. al, i in. 8-10 lin.) Forc-iuing : ocellus propor- 

 tionately smaller. Hind-wing : ocelli larger, but their fulvous rings 

 narrow, not confluent. Under side. — Hind-wing : whiter, shining ; 

 the first and second transverse brown streaks strongly marked, and so 

 clouded with brownish (the first exteriorly and the second interiorly) 

 as to form a median irregular fascia, more or less white mesially ; the 

 third (submarginal) streak better marked, more dentate, usually inter- 

 rupted with white on the nervules; ocelli very much larger (their 

 pupil often obsolete) and the suffused brown clouding surrounding 

 them much darker and broader ; in some examples, a minute additional 

 ocellus close to anal angle. 



Hah. — Eastern South Africa. 



