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extending far below or beyond median nervure. With one exception 

 — a $ — the five examples (3 c? s, 2 ? s) I have examined presenting 

 this variation are unusually small, 



Var. a ($ and $). 



Hxp. al, ($) 3 in. ; (?) 3 in. 6 lin. 



Fore-wing : two spots of median oblique row much enlarged (especially 

 that in discoidal cell), almost touching. Hind-iving : basal patch iri- 

 descent-ivhite, only slightly tinged with ochreous-yellow on its edge. 

 Under side. — In ^ with a slightly rufous tinge in the brown portions. 



Hab.—t, Natal (? local.) ; %, D'Urban {J. H. Bowher). 



This Euralia is the Southern representative of E. duhia (Palis, de Beau v.) 

 of Western Africa. It differs with apparent constancy in the following parti- 

 culars, viz., in i\\e fore-wing : (i) the two spots of the median oblique row are 

 much smaller and far apart ; (2) the subapical oblique white band is narrower, 

 and divided into three quite distinctly separate spots ; (3) the white spots of 

 the submarginal row are smaller ; (4) the ochreous scaling or suffusion on the 

 inner margin is altogether wanting ; and (5) the white spot near base, in dis- 

 coidal cell, is obsolete ; while in the hind-ioing (6) the basal patch is broader 

 and uniformly yellow-ochreous. The under side differs correspondingly, and 

 (7) the white spots at the bases of the wings are smaller. 



The small Variety A. above characterised decidedly inclines in the direction 

 of E. dubia, as far as the enlarged median spots of the fore-Aving and the white 

 patch of the hind-wing are concerned, but in other respects retains the distinc- 

 tive features of E. mima.'^ 



A very fine $, taken at D'Urban by Colonel Bowker in March 1879, is 

 remarkable for possessing a gloss of indigo-blue over the black ground in the 

 apical half of the fore- wings, and also for having all the spots in those wings 

 very distinctly ringed with bluish on the upper as well as on the under side. 



E. mima was very rare on the coast of Natal in the summer of 1867, and 

 I only met with two specimens — one at DUrban and the other near Verulam, 

 both during February. On each occasion I at first mistook the butterfly for 

 Amauris Echeria, until I noticed its more active flight. The late Mr. M. J. 

 M'Ken and Colonel Bowker, during their long residence in the Colony, often 

 took specimens, and about twenty examples have been received from them. 

 Among the latter gentleman's captures was a pair taken iji copula in the Park, 

 D'Urban, on the nth February 1881. These individuals were unusually 

 small — the $ expanding only 2 in. 11 lin., and the 9 3 in. 4 lin. — and much 

 alike, both presenting the variation above mentioned, viz., the much-reduced 

 yellow patch of the hind-wing, and having also the spots of the fore-wing 

 smaller and less distinct than usual, especially in the $ . This close resem- 

 blance of the paired sexes is of interest, seeing that (as noted under E. Waldhergi) 

 the $ Mima has on one occasion been taken in copnld with the $ Waldhergi. 



Localities of Euralia mima. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Little Umhlanga [H. C. Harford). 

 Verulam. 



^ This small variety appears to approach very closely E. {" Panopea") Drucei, Butler, 

 from Madagascar (to judge from the description and figure in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, 

 p. 426, pi. vi. f. 3), differing chiefly in the less regular macular bars of the fore- wing, and in 

 the smaller and less ochre-tinged patch of the hind-wing. 



