314 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



hind-marginal spots more conspicaous than in $. Under side. — 

 Pale hrownish-grcij tinged with ferruginous ; discal area with a lilacine 

 gloss ; the white markings as on upper side, but duller ; other mark- 

 ings in basal area as in ^ ; common discal brown streak better marked. 



One ^ specimen from the Knysna District of the Cape Colony has 

 the under side almost as pale as the wpi^er side, with all the streaks 

 (except the common discal one) better defined. 



Var. a. 



Uxpl. al., Q) I in. 1 1 lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. ; (^) 2 in. 3-7 lin. 



$ Paler ; in fore-wing the marhings in and about discoidal cell 

 wanting, as well as all but the lowest portion of the inner sub- 

 marginal lunulate streak ; in hind-wing the same streak is often 

 obsolete in its middle portion. Under side. — Paler (like the Knysna 

 specimen just mentioned, but with the common discal hroion streak 

 strongly marked), with all the markings more distinct; in some 

 examples the darker parts in basal half, as well as a hind-marginal 

 suffusion, are ivarm-ferruginous. 



$ Transverse white hand broader, especially in hind-wing ; sub- 

 marginal blackish spots considerably larger and more distinct. Fore- 

 iving : disco-cellular white stria attenuated, more angulated; costal 

 white stria beyond cell distinctly broken into three spots and continued 

 inferiorly by two more or less distinct small spots, between third and 

 first median nervules, immediately before transverse band. Under 

 SIDE. — Markings more distinct; colouring varying from that nearly 

 resembling the type-form to almost general warm-ferruginous, — inter- 

 mediate examples occurring only variegated with ferruginous. 



Aberrant $ s of this large variety occur having the common trans- 

 verse band ochre-yclloio instead of white. In one specimen, taken by 

 Colonel Bowker in Kaffraria, the yellow band is much obscured and 

 partly obliterated by dull-brownish suffusion. 



This smallest of the genus Harma is allied to H. Ccenis, Dru., from West 

 Africa, but very much less in size. The $ is distinguished also by the fore- 

 wings being more produced apically, and the hind-wings much more at anal 

 angle ; by the possession of orange-ochreous hind-marginal spots ; and (on the 

 under side) by the absence of the greenish tint so pronounced in Ccenis, and by 

 the common transverse brown streak not being nearly so straight. The $ of 

 Coenis appears to be Althaea, Cram., and from this the ? Alcimeda differs in 

 possessing a conspicuous disco-cellular white mark ; in presenting, immediately 

 beyond common Avhite band, a series of small white spots instead of one of 

 large suffused sub-hastate marks, and in having bright orange-ochreous hind- 

 marginal spots. 1 



I have regarded as the type-form the smaller race found in the south of the 

 Cape Colony, because Godart describes the $ as being only about two inches 

 in expanse of wings. The $ belonging to this is that figured by AVestwood 



^ I have not seen any specimens of H. Amphiceda, Cram. (Pap. Exot. , ii. t. cxlvi. fif. D, 

 e), but, from the figure, it seems in size and pattern to be nearly related to H. Alcimeda, 

 var., but has in both wings the submarginal markings very much darker and much more 

 sharply dentated. Its locality is given as the Coast of Guinea. 



