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Locality of Crenis Moraniii. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal, 



a. Coast District. — Piuctowa ( W. Morant). 



83. (4.) Crenis Rosa, Hewitson. 



Crenis Rosa, Hewits., Eat. M. Mag., xiv. p. 82 (1877). 



Uxp. al, 2 in. 5^ lin. 



^ Bluish-violaceous, unth fuscous spots and borders. Fore-wing : 

 between extremity of discoidal cell and apex two oblique fuscous bars 

 crossing from subcostal nervure to near third median nervule ; a 

 moderately- wide hind-marginal border of fuscous, radiating rather 

 broadly along the nervures, and forming a suffused cloud between 

 second and first median nervules ; a row of spots near and parallel to 

 hind-marginal border, of which only the three upper ones are distinct ; 

 just below third median, a small isolated spot in a line with the inner 

 oblique bar. Hind-wing : duller than fore-wing ; hind-marginal border 

 ill-defined, traversed by a light-blue streak, brightest and widest near 

 anal angle ; submarginal row of spots continuous of that of fore-wiug, 

 but the spots much larger, rounder, and relieved by an outer ring of 

 somewhat paler blue. Nervules generally defined with reddish-fuscous. 

 Cilia dull-white, mixed with fuscous at extremities of nervules. Under 

 SIDE. — IVarm ochrc-ycllow, with greenish- white and hIacJc marldngs. 

 Fore-wing : costa very narrowly, apex and hind-margin narrowly, 

 bordered with greenish-white ; a fine extreme hind-marginal edofinsr of 

 black, preceded by a similar black line broken into eight inter-nervular 

 lineola3 ; inner oblique bar only represented, and that much attenuated, 

 but spot below third median nervule larger than on upper side ; a sub- 

 apical row of four black spots, representing submarginal row of upper 

 side, of which the upper three are small and in greenish-white rings, 

 while the fourth is much larger. Hind-wing : a pre-median, a median, 

 and a hind-marginal band, and also a narrow costal edgfiner, of ofreenish- 

 white, each traversed by a black streak interrupted on the nervures 

 — that traversing the middle band being highly irregular; midway 

 between median and hind-marginal bands, a row of seven conspicuous 

 black spots in broad greenish- white rings ; hind-margin itself finely 

 edged with black. 



Allied to 0. Bengnehv, Chapman, from the Congo, but the upper- 

 side colouring much brighter than in the $ of that species (being, 

 indeed, bluer than in the ^ Bcngucloi), which is greenish-grey, clouded 

 from bases with dull-fuscous. The under side is remarkably different, 

 especially as regards the ochre-yellow of the fore-wing, which in botli 

 sexes of Benguelw is restricted to a small basal patch, leaving the discal 



