1 84 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



to hind-margin a row of six round spots between nervules, tlie upper 

 two generally merged in apical blackish, but quite perceptible ; inner 

 margin very thinly edged with blackish, Hind-iving : arrangement of 

 spots very similar to that of fore- wing ; two rounded spots above sub- 

 costal nervure before middle ; three in discoidal cell, the outer one at 

 extremity ; between cell and inner margin about six spots ; a trans- 

 verse sinuous row of eight spots beyond middle, continuous of that 

 in fore-wing, from costa to inner margin ; parallel and near to hind- 

 margin a row of six rounded spots between nervules, also continuous 

 of that in fore-wing ; a blackish hind-marginal border, broader than 

 that of fore-wing, and forming rounded projections on ground-colour 

 het'wccn nervules. Under side. — Faler, with a slightly glistening sur- 

 face ; position and number of spots precisely as above. Forc-iving : 

 no basal blackish ; apical blackish limited to a faint and narrow border ; 

 hind-marginal border also wanting, but its projections represented by 

 separate spots between nervules. Hind-wing : spots on hind-margin 

 as in fore- wing. 



Except in being larger, and having the spots and other dark 

 markings more strongly developed, the $ does not differ from the ^. 



The South-African variety is rather larger, darker in ground- 

 colour, and with considerably larger spots ; it also almost always 

 presents an additional (seventh) spot in the irregular discal row of 

 fore-wing on the inner-marginal edge. When I was only acquainted 

 with the type-form in the shape of Boisduval's figure of a small and 

 faintly-marked example, I was disposed to regard the variety Stictica 

 as distinct ; but, since comparing the latter with specimens from 

 Madagascar, I consider that it cannot be separated as a species, every 

 spot (with the exception noted) corresponding in the two forms. In 

 the British Museum I examined two unusually small examples, taken 

 by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton beween Natal and Delagoa Bay, which 

 nearly approach the type-form, especially in the smallness and separate- 

 ness of the hind-marginal spots. These examples expand only i in. 

 3 lin. ; and two others (with the spots comparatively larger) sent from 

 D'Urban by Colonel Bowker in 1879 and 1881 expand respectively 

 I in. 3 lin. and I in. 4 lin. 



A similar individual was sent to me by Mrs. Monteiro from 

 Delagoa Bay in 1884 ; but in it the spots are all very small, and that 

 below median nervure of fore-wing is wanting ; the abdomen, too, is 

 more evenly ochre-yellow, as in the Malagasy type. 



A specimen from Zanzibar in the British Museum, also below the 

 usual size, has the fore-wing spots rather small, but the apical fuscous 

 very well developed, while the hind-wing spots are tolerably large. 



This butterfly was not iincommon in the neighbourhood of D'Urban, Port 

 Natal, from the beginning of February to the beginning of April 1867, but 

 it was nowhere numerous. Its flight is veiy low and weak, and it is scarcely 

 ever to be seen away from wooded spots. I met with a few examples in the 



