254 SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



colour ; submarginal row of seven small fuscous spots ; a little before 

 it, near costa, a curved row of three black dots. Hmd-7ving : three 

 transverse thin brownish-rufous strias, the first and second (respectively 

 before and about middle) very irregular and interrupted, the third 

 (near hind-margin) regular and lunulated ; between the second and 

 third striae a row of seven contiguous ocelli, centred with a black and 

 yellow dot, and ringed with brownish rufous ; of these, the middle 

 (fourth) one is smallest and more indistinct than the rest ; a small 

 lirownish-rufous striola at extremity of discoidal cell ; between it and 

 the first ocellus some slight fuscous irroration. 



This species is nearly allied to both C. ncdalensis, Boisd., and C. 

 madagascariensis, Boisd. From the former it differs, on the upper 

 side, in its very much darker colouring and exceedingly ill-defined 

 marking, wanting alike the warm yellow-ochreous ground-colour in 

 both wings, and the black spots and lunules in the hind-wings ; while 

 on the under side it is cream-colour, with rufous markings, instead of 

 hoary, clouded with fuscous-grey and with fuscous markings ; and the 

 fore-wing altogether wants the suffused spot near posterior angle, so 

 conspicuous in C. natalensis. 



From C. iiiadcujascariensis it diverges almost similarly, as regards 

 the upper side, in its want of warm ochreous colouring ; and its vague 

 fuscous-brown space (enclosing an ochreous spot) is altogether different 

 from the broad dark apical area, which in C. madagascariensis is only 

 varied by the bar of three small indistinct ochreous spots from costa, 

 not far from apex. On the under side, C. Morantii has none of the 

 hoary colouring of the Malagasy species, and all its strios and ocelli 

 are much more distinct, besides being rufous instead of dull grey ; 

 while in the hind-wing the central and submarginal striae are more 

 irregfular and dentated. 



The only example of this insect tliat I have met with is the female above 

 described, which was taken at Pinetown (Natal) in April or May 1869, by 

 Mr. Walter Morant, an able observer and collector, after whom I have named 

 the species. Mr. Morant wrote that the specimen in question settled on the 

 trunks of trees, with closed wings, in the same manner as C. nataleims, and 

 that he believed he had seen, if not taken, a male nearly resembling it.^ 



1 Colonel Bowker has since taken three examples near Pinetown, viz., a (J on 26th July 

 1884, and two 9 s in July and December 1SS4 respectively. The 9 s are on tiie upper side 

 of a rather warmer, more rufous tint, with the spots about the fuscous cloud of the fore-wing 

 of a deeper ochre-yellow ; and one of them expands 2 in. 4 lin. The i is much smaller, 

 expanding only I in. 1 1 lin. ; the fore-wings are more produced apically, and the upper 

 side generally appears to be unicolorous dull ochreous-brown of the same tint as prevails in 

 the 9 discovered by Mr. Morant, with the exception of a small paler marking in fore-wing 

 midway between discoidal cell and apex, and in hind-wing between discoidal cell and hind- 

 margin (these markings are in this specimen much enlarged and blurred in the left-hand 

 wings). The under side does not differ from that of tlie 9 except in the markings generally 

 being less clearly defined. 



Colonel Bowker wrote that the few specimens of this insect he met with flew higher than 

 either Natalensis or Boisduvali, and that the i just described fluttered down from a tree 

 and settled on a stcme in the bed of the Umbilo. 



