278 SOUTH- AFEICAN BUTTERrLIES. 



margin. Under side. — Fore-ioing : large white markings as on upper 

 side, bub not violet -ringed ; costa thinly dusted with white as far as 

 larger white marking ; three small white spots immediately below 

 subcostal nervure ; a space of rich chocolate-red, from base, occupies 

 nearly whole of cell, extending a little below it ; apical portion shining 

 brownish-ochreous ; white spot at apex commencing a row of white 

 dots, parallel to hind-margin, only a few of which are apparent ; two 

 parallel rows of conspicuous white lunules along hind-margin, which is 

 black ; immediately before larger white marking, and sometimes touch- 

 ing it, is a small, narrow, irregularly-shaped white mark on costa. 

 Hind-iviiifj : shining brownish-ochreous ; tinged with chocolate-red near 

 anal angle, and on costa near base ; large central spot extended into a 

 very broad, white, median band, from costa to inner margin, edged 

 with black inwardly from costal nervure, and containing an elongate 

 black spot, close to costa a little beyond middle, and a black streak on 

 inner margin before anal angle ; hind-marginal black broader than in 

 fore-iving, its two rows of white lunules larger and more conspicuous ; 

 parallel to hind-margin a row of rather distinct white dots. 



$ Dull reddish-ochreous. Fore-iving : apical half of wing blackish, 

 narrowing to a very thin bordering at base and anal angle, containing 

 an oblique pure-white stripe from costa, consisting of four moderate- 

 sized spots (of which the lowest is separate from the rest), and almost 

 reaching hind-margin ; two rows of whitish lunules border hind-margin, 

 as on under side of ^, but not so distinct ; close to apex, a narrow 

 white stripe, composed of three small spots, almost parallel to the 

 larger stripe, with a white dot a little heloio it. Hind-wing : a dusky- 

 blackish spot on costa, a little beyond middle, as in ^ on under side, 

 but much broader ; a rather narrow, blackish border to hind-margin, 

 containing a row of more or less distinct, whitish lunules, and the 

 indications of a similar row before the outer one ; faint-bluish tinge at 

 anal angle as in ^. Under side. — Considerably like that of ^, parti- 

 cularly the fore -wing. Fore-wing : white stripes as on upper side ; 

 white spots below subcostal nervure as in ^ ; dull-red from base much 

 paler than in ^, tinged with ochreous, and occupying whole of inner 

 margin (where it is very pale), only leaving a narrow band of blackish, 

 from base to anal angle, before larger white stripe ; apical portion, 

 beyond larger stripe, shining yellow-ochreous ; hind-marginal lunules 

 as in ^. Hind-iving : shining yellowish-ochreous ; a whitish central 

 shade indicates position of white transverse band ; blackish costal spot 

 as on upper side ; a blackish mark at base, on costal nervure ; and 

 another, larger, irregular, blackish mark at extremity of discoidal cell 

 on discoidal nervure ; hind-marginal border as in ^, as well as row of 

 white dots parallel to it. 



Var. $ {D. Inaria, Cram.) — A suffusion of the reddish-ground- 

 colour covers apex, only leaving costa and hind- margin blackish ; tlie apical 

 and siibapical ivhite stripes being also obliterated with the same hue. 



