322 SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Nymphalis Varcmes, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix, p. 364, n. 48 (1819). 

 Philognoma Varanes, Westw., Gen. D. Lep., ii. p. 311, n. 2 (1850). 



„ ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 181, n. 105 (1862). 



Exp. al., 3 in. 2-9 lin. 



Rich-ferruginous, spotted with luarm orange-ochreous ; hasal portion 

 of fore-wing pale-yellowish shading into orange-ochreous, of hind-wing, 

 silky-ivhite. Fore-wing: narrowly white on inner margin, gradually 

 shading through dull-yellow into orange-ochreous, which latter colour 

 occupies middle ; three short, transverse, ferruginous marks on the 

 ochreous portion, — one just beyond extremity of discoidal cell, — another 

 between third and second median nervules, helow, and slightly leyond., 

 the first mark, — the third between second and first median nervules, 

 vertically in a line with the first mark ; outer half of wing dark-ferru- 

 ginous, which colour commences abruptly just beyond the three marks 

 described, indenting the orange-ochreous between median nervules ; 

 beyond middle, two transverse rows of orange-ochreous spots, the outer 

 row parallel to hind-margin, the inner somewhat sinuate, — the spots of 

 the outer row thinner and more lunular than those of the inner ; neither 

 row extending below submedian nervure, and hoth with the spot next 

 costa often indistinct ; between the two rows is another of dark spots, 

 more apparent in $ (whose ground-colour is paler). Hind-iving : basal 

 portion, to beyond extremity of discoidal cell, glistening-white ; along 

 submedian nervure, from base, a dense clothing of silky, white hair, 

 not extending to anal angle ; rest of wing ferruginous, inclining to 

 ochreous near costa and next basal white ; two rows of ochreous spots 

 in fore-wing indistinctly continued in this wing, the row of dark spots 

 distinctly so, diminishing in size from subcostal nervure as far as second 

 or first median nervule ; bordering hind-margin, a row of thin, dull- 

 blue lunules, of which the three next anal angle are the most con- 

 spicuous, being outwardly very thinly white-edged ; tail at extremity 

 of third median nervule brownish-ferruginous, slightly widened at its tip, 

 from two to three lines in length. Under side. — Very variable; dull 

 greyish-hrown, inclining to ferruginous, with pale-green nervures ; outer 

 portions of goings more or less glistening. Fore-tving : crossing discoidal 

 cell, three transverse, more or less distinct, strongly waved and angu- 

 lated grey lines, sometimes defined with glistening-silvery outwardly, 

 the third extending almost to submedian nervure ; a little beyond cell, a 

 fourth, similar, longer, interrupted line, about middle, also nearly reach- 

 ing submedian nervure ; beyond middle, a slightly-curved, transverse, 

 continuous, dark-grey streak, glistening -silvery externally, from costa to 

 below first median nervule ; beyond this, the surface is more or less 

 washed with glistening-silvery, which does not, however extend to 

 hind- margin, except at apex and at anal angle ; parallel to hind- 

 margin, a row of more or less indistinct, dark- grey spots, from costal 

 edge to submedian nervure. Hind-iving : before middle, three trans- 

 verse, much-angulated, zigzag grey lines, similar to those in for c-ioing, 



