iQo SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



verse black streaks in cliscoidal cell, tliat nearer base very short, tlie other 

 considerably longer, but not reaching median nervure ; at extremity 

 of cell, two transverse similar streaks, one outwardly, the other inwardly 

 bordering the disco-cellular nervules ; on costa, a little beyond cell, 

 commences a row of seven spots, very sharply elbowed on lower radial, 

 of which the first three are contiguous, and form a short irregular bar ; 

 the fourth is rather farther from base, and lies between lower radial 

 and third median nervules ; while the fifth, sixth, and seventh, widely 

 separated, follow a line below median nervure in the direction of the 

 inner margin near base ; the seventh spot is often small and indistinct, 

 and sometimes obsolete ; beyond middle, a rather suffused macular 

 black streak from costa to lower radial, occasionally extended to third 

 or second median nervule by one or two small, separate, ill-defined 

 spots ; parallel to hind-margin a row of five spots between upper radial 

 and sub-median nervure, all of which are small and rounded, except 

 the fifth, which is large and sub-quadrate, and nearer hind-margin 

 than the others ; from costa to sub-median nervure, a strongly-marked 

 sub-marginal festooned line, connected at extremities of nervules with 

 a row of contiguous sub-triangular markings on hind-marginal edge ; 

 a distinct thin black line from costa traverses the points of junction of 

 the festooned streak and the markings of hind-marginal edge. Hind- 

 wing : on costa, a little beyond middle, a- linear black mark, rarely con- 

 tinued by another similar mark towards extremity of discoidal cell ; 

 beyond middle, a row of four spots, rather larger than the corresj)ond- 

 ing spots in fore-wing, between upper radial and first median nervules ; 

 festooned and other hind-marginal markings, much as in fore-wing, 

 but the festooned line not so regularly connected with the markings of 

 hind-marginal edge, and the thin traversing middle streak not straight, 

 but lunulated. Under side. — Much paler, rather glossy, varied ivith 

 violaceous clouding ; Mack niarlcings mostly replaced hy indistinct brownish 

 or grey ones. Fore-wing : violaceous clouding in discoidal cell and 

 over central portion of hind-marginal area ; cellular streaks much 

 thinner than on upper side, but well defined ; elbowed transverse 

 macular row indistinct, except the two last spots (which are them- 

 selves sometimes reddish-brown instead of black) ; costal macular streak 

 beyond middle reddish-brown, the spots continuous of it forming a 

 row extending to beneath first median nervule, and all reddish-brown 

 except the lowest, which is usually black; spots of outermost trans- 

 verse row obsolete, except the fourth and fifth, of which the latter is 

 larger than on upper side, and very conspicuous ; hind-marginal mark- 

 ings all brownish, and indistinctly marked. Hind-wing : an irregular, 

 interrupted, reddish-brown, thin streak from costa before to inner 

 margin beyond middle ; in discoidal cell, a short, transverse streak of 

 the same colour ; a more continuous, less irregular streak than the 

 •interrupted one, crossing middle a little beyond the latter, from costal 

 nervure to inner margin ; space between it and festooned streak (which, 



