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anal angle, is the largest, and lias its outer half pale-blue), — the third 

 of more or less rhomboidal spots on nervules, generally united by their 

 lateral angles ; fringe as in fore-wing. Under side. — Much j^ctlcr than 

 upper side ; the Jiind-ioing exquisitely marbled. Fore-icing : base and 

 costa whitish, the former with a single blackish dot, the latter with 

 numerous short, minute, blackish, transverse stria3 as far as black spot 

 in discoidal cell ; salmon-red much paler than on upper side, particu- 

 larly near hind-margin, but next base suffused with a soft pale-carmine 

 tint ; a whitish space in cell beyond black spot, and an indistinct 

 greyish-white costal cloud beyond cell, which is closed by a broad 

 black stria ; white spots as on upper side, but apical black replaced hy 

 ycllow-ochreous, which extends along hind-margin ; two blackish spots 

 on hind-margin close to anal angle ; and a more or less distinct row 

 of blackish, outwardly white-edged, lunules parallel to hind-margin. 

 Hind-ioing : varied loith white and various shades of ycllow-oehrcovs ; 

 ncrvures white ; a conspicuous white space immediately beyond ex- 

 tremity of discoidal cell ; and three irregular whitish markings on 

 costa, two before and one about middle ; a transverse, ochre-brown, 

 white-edged mark in discoidal cell ; and near it, outside cell, a larger 

 similar mark, divided into three by nervules, — its lower portion on 

 disco-cellular uervule ; near, and parallel to hind-margin, a row of five 

 round ocellated spots, situated between nervules from first subcostal to 

 first median, and variously coloured, viz., the first, nearest costa, a 

 simple, ovate whitish spot, containing an ochreous dot ; the second, 

 blackish-centred, with sometimes a small blue pupil, ringed with yellow 

 and black; the third and fourth black, with a large metallic-greenish 

 lunule, and ringed with pale yellow ; the fifth larger than the rest, 

 with a black, blue-lunuled centre in red, yellow, and black rings; 

 beyond these spots a row of narrow violet-blue lunules, the largest 

 next anal angle and edged with black internally ; succeeded by a 

 parallel white stripe ; the hind-mai'ginal border yellow-ochreous. 



Aherration. — Fore-iuing suffused with hlaclcish, to the confusion of 

 the ordinary markings ; large apical white spot obliterated ; blackish 

 border at anal angle broad and suffused. Bind-ioing : hlackish suffu- 

 sion over the whole costal region as far as apex ; row of black spots 

 faint, whitish-centred ; hind-marginal rhomboidal spots not contiguous. 

 Under side. — Similarly suffused. Fore-wing : large apical spot want- 

 ing ; anal angle varied with whitish. Hind-wing : blackish suffusion 

 obliterating costal and disco-cellular white markings; ncrvures yellow- 

 ish-white ; first, third, and fourth ocelli whitish, indistinct, merged in a 

 white and greyish band immediately succeeding them. 



Hah.—l^mg William's Town (W. S. M. D' Urban). 



This aberration closely resembles that figured by Herrich-Schacffer 

 (loc. cit.) 



Another aberrant example, taken by the Rev. H. Wilson near 

 Cape Town in 1877, i^ also very near Herrich-Schaeffer's figure, but 



