266 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



$ Paler, duller ; the costal Uach of fore-wing and the basal Mack of 

 hind-wing replaced hi/ suffused fuscous, except the striae and spots respec- 

 tively. Fore-ioing : submarginal band united to outermost costal stria 

 or dentation, so that in all eight instead of six spots of the ground- 

 colour are enclosed ; inner-marginal marking much attenuated. Hind- 

 wing : a fuscous streak a little before submarginal band and united to 

 it by blackish on the nervules so as to enclose seven small spots of the 

 ground-colour. Under side. — As in ^. 



Var. a. {Achelo'ia, Wallengr.) ^, $. 



^ Darker, more inclined to rufous. Fore-ioing : costal black broader, 

 especially its dowmoarcl ray beyond discoidcd cell, which is very wide and 

 sharply dentated externally, the outermost dentation usually joining, 

 or almost joining, the top of submarginal band on second radial ner- 

 vule ; ground-colour beyond the wide downward ray extends all but to 

 costal edge, so as to isolate subapical extremity of costal band ; lower 

 part of submarginal band much thickened at posterior angle, so as 

 almost to obliterate the lowest enclosed spot of the ground-colour. 

 Hind-ioing : no spots before middle ; submarginal band and hind-marginal 

 border more developed, and united by wider nervular rays, so that spots 

 of ground-colour are smaller. Under side. — Like that of typical 

 form, but even more variable, the hind-wing and apex of fore-wing being 

 often of a pale creamy-yellowish, in which the whitish or creamy bands 

 are indistinguishable, but all the black markings very conspicuous ; 

 while in others every grade of deepening coloration is found as far as 

 the same deep-ferruginous as the typical form sometimes exhibits, or 

 even rather darker. 



$ Differs quite in correspondence with the characters just given, 

 but is very commonly duller and more suffused in markings than the 

 typical $. 



[Plate V. fig. 4 (?). 



Pupa. — Dull greenish-grey, antennae-cases pale-yellowish. Attached 

 to middle of a leaf. 



Description of a living specimen sent to me from D'Urban, Natal, 

 by Colonel Bowker, and received on 9th December 1878. The imago 

 emerged the next day, so in all probability the colour of the pupa was 

 duller than at an earlier date ; it was a ^ of the Achclo'ia variety that 

 emerged. 



"' AYallengren's Illitliija and Acheldia both belong to the variety just described, 

 as I have ascertained from drawings of his types which Mr. "VV. F. Kirby 

 showed me in 1881 ; the former being an example of the medium under-side 

 coloration, and the latter one of the deep-ferruginous hue. The differences 

 pointed out enable me to distinguish the variety from the typical form, but I 

 think it best not to separate it as a species, for the present at any rate, as I 

 have seen so few Hypanis specimens from Tropical Africa, and both forms are 

 so extremely variable both in size and marking. It is lUihyia proper which 

 (in a smaller form with thinner black markings) extends to Ceylon and India ; 



