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base, and the zigzag one crossing cell, both edged ouhvardly with 

 whitish scales, — the- zigzag one about middle similarly edged inwardly ; 

 a dark line closing cell ; ocelli in row seven, brown, with white-pupilled 

 black centres, and narrowly ringed with yellow and brown, two first on 

 costa out of line with the rest, the last larger than on upper side, often 

 bipupillate, — all of them bounded by confluent rings of whitish scales. 

 Both above and below, a paler border on hind-margin of both wings, 

 divided longitudinally by a dark line, straight or slightly waved on 

 upper side, waved near apices on under side. 



The sexes do not differ appreciably, except that in the ^, on the 

 under side, the creamy-yellow band almost always extends brokenly 

 below third median nervule, and as far as first median nervule, and 

 the white scaling in the hind-wing is more pronounced. 



Pupa. — Dull brownish-grey, speckled with fuscous. On back of 

 abdomen, a transverse row of thin small indistinct fuscous spots occupy- 

 ing middle line of each segment ; on under side of abdomen fuscous 

 irroration close and thick, leaving two convergent clear streaks of 

 ground-colour from ends of wing-covers to anal point. Central line of 

 breast covering haustellum defined by two fuscous longitudinal streaks. 

 Neuration of wings distinctly defined with brown on wing-covers. 



The pupa here described was found by Mr. T. D. Butler, the taxi- 

 dermist of the South-African Museum, on the 26th March 1873, under 

 a large stone on the ascent of the Devil's Peak, Cape Town. It was 

 lying perfectly free, without attachment of any kind. The imago, a 

 fine ^, emerged on 8th April. 



Var. a. (Grahamstown, Cape Colony). 



Exp. al, 2 in. 6-y lin. 



^ Considerably larger ; rings of ocelli in hind-wing paler, yellower. 



Aberr. $ (Cape Town). 



Fore-wing : a reddish-ochreous transverse meso-cellular fascia, in- 

 wardly ill-defined, outwardly bounded by dark-brown streak ; a little 

 scaling of the same colour between extremity of cell and pale creamy- 

 yellow stripe. Hind-iving : some similar, but more conspicuous scaling 

 between extremity of cell and first two ocelli of submarginal row. 

 (Taken by R. Trimen, loth April 1874.) 



The large Grahamstown variety occurs freely at Highlands, whence 

 Mrs. Barber sent me several specimens 5 but I have not seen the ^ of 

 it. It manifestly inclines towards the more eastern and still larger 

 form L. Oxylus, mihi. 



The ^ aberration shows in its ill-defined imperfect upper-side 

 fasciae some indication of an approach to the colouring of the curious 

 form L. Mintha, Geyer, but exhibits no trace of the latter's peculiar 

 pale neuration, &c., of the under side. 



In a cj captured near Seymour, in the Stockenstrom District, by Mr. Scully, 

 the upper part of the fore-wing ocellus is reduced to a very small separate 

 ocellus, which on the under side becomes quite obsolete. 



