178 SOUTH- AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



subcostal nervure more strongly clouded with red. Under side. — 

 As in ^ ; but subapical bar of fore-wing pure white, rather wider than 

 on upper side (its edges somewhat suffused), occasionally less distinctly 

 prolonged as far as first median nervule. 



In a ^ captured by Colonel Bowker at Inchanga, Natal, the sub- 

 apical bar of the fore-wing is of the same ochre-red as the rest of the 

 markings on the upper side. 



The red of the hind-wings is in both sexes variable in extent, 

 sometimes extending to hind-margin near anal angle, and in the 

 ^ occasionally covering all the wing, except some narrow fuscous 

 clouding towards apex. 



Var. A. ($ and g). 



$ Bed of both ivings rejjlaced hy the same joale-yclloiu as that of 

 subapical bar of fore-wing. Fore-wing : inner-marginal patch much 

 smaller, only occupying middle portion of inner margin, and rarely 

 rising above first median nervule. Hind-icing : basal blackish much 

 more developed, sometimes quite broad ; hind-marginal border con- 

 stantly wider and more even throughout. Under side. — Fore-wing : 

 inner-marginal patch and subapical bar pale-yellowish. Hind-wing : 

 basal spots larger, rounder ; central area occupied by a broad, ill- 

 defined, dusky-yellowish band ; base tinged with brownish-ochreous. 



$ Like $, but subapical bar of fore-wing {and sometimes all the broad 

 markings) pure white. Forc-iving : inner-marginal patch smaller, its 

 edges suffused. 



It is the $ of this variety which is figured by Hewitson (I. c, 

 fig. I 2) as that of the red-marked $ ; but (as described above) there 

 is a red-marked $, which much more closely agrees with his type 

 of the ^, and which is figured as " Var. B." in my work above quoted. 



In a few aberrant examples {$ and three $ s) of this variety the 

 markings are reduced in size, the inner-marginal patch of the fore- 

 wing especially being almost obsolete. In the $ the markings are 

 almost, and in the $ s quite white. In both sexes, on the under side 

 of the hind-wing there is a faintly indicated row of four inter-nervular 

 fuscous dots just beyond discoidal cell. (These examples are respec- 

 tively from King William's Town, the Coast of Natal, and St. Lucia Bay.) 



Larva. — About i \ inches long. Pale ochreous-brown ; each 

 segment (except head and segment next to it) banded transversely 

 and centrally with a black streak edged on both sides with a pale- 

 yellow streak. A lateral stripe of the same pale-yellow. Head black. 

 Second, twelfth, and thirteenth segments each with two black spines ; 

 third and fourth segments each with two pairs of black spines ; each 

 of the remaining segments with four black spines springing from 

 central black streak, and two lateral pale-yellow spines. On a species 

 of Fleurya, in February and March. 



Plate I. figf. 2. 



