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indistinct whitish fulvous line, and externally by dull-greenish ; two 

 tails ferruginous-fulvous, — that on first median nervule in both sexes 

 long, rather wide, somewhat spatulate at the tip, and curving upward 

 towards apex, — while that on third median nervule is in the ^ short, 

 straight, and acuminate, but in the $ of the same form as the other 

 tail, only straight instead of curved ; cilia whitish. Under side. — 

 Hind-iving and apiccd hind-margindl area of fore-iving pale soft 

 ycUoivisJi-hroivn {sometimes inclining to ferruginous), towards hind- 

 margin with a surface-gloss of violaceous-whitish ; neuration throughoiU 

 hright-grcen. Fore-wing : space between costa and costal nervure 

 green, transversely striated with fine white lines ; basal area pale- 

 yellowish ; in discoid al cell, a basal blackish spot and three widely- 

 separated thin blackish streaks (of which the outermost is prolonged 

 below the cell) ; at extremity of cell, a sliort, irregular, brownish- 

 ferruginous fascia, externally bounded by a blackish line, ending 

 between second and first median nervules ; a curved discal transverse 

 ferruginous-brown fascia from costa to inner margin, becoming blackish- 

 violaceous in its lower portion, which is also edged with black exter- 

 nally ; an indistinct pale submarginal lunulate band, inwardly bounded 

 by dusky spots, of which only the two lowest are well-defined and 

 subocellate with bluish. Hind-iving : before middle, an irregular ferru- 

 ginous-brown fascia, thinly black-edged and more or less completely 

 white-bordered on both sides ; a narrow, discal, strongly lunulated ferru- 

 ginous-brown (inwardly yellow-edged) stripe from costa to anal angle ; 

 a more or less indistinct series of submarginal whitish spots, and another 

 of hind-marginal whitish lunules ; between these series one of small 

 black violaceous-scaled spots (surrounded by greenish irroration), only 

 distinct between radial nervule and anal angle ; at base, between costa 

 and subcostal nervure, a smooth greenish space almost bare of scales. 



There is much variation in the distinctness of the under-side 

 markings, which are sometimes obscured by a pale-ferruginous suffusion 

 and sometimes by the extension of the violaceous-whitish gloss. 



The sexes do not differ except in the form and size of the superior 

 tail of the hind-wing, and in the rather paler colouring of the $. 



This species bears considerable resemblance to C. Varanes, (Cram.), but is 

 readily recognised by the absence of white at the base of the hind-wing, the 

 conspicuous green of the nervures, and the presence of two tails, instead of 

 one only, on the hind-wing ; the under-side pattern is also widely different.^ 



I did not meet with Candiope during my stay in Natal, but Mr. W. Morant 

 and Colonel Bowker have both found it not rarely at Pinetown and D'Urbau 

 respectively. Tlie first South-African specimen I received was from the late 

 Colonel H. Tower, who took it at St. Lucia Bay in 1867. Colonel Bowker's 

 examples were captured in August 1878 ; but Mr. Morant informed me that 



^ There is a very near ally of Candiope in Madagascar, in which the neuration is much 

 less green ; the basal yellow duller, as well as the spots of the fore-wing ; and the dark 

 outer area of the fore-wing extending quite up to the extremity of the cell ; while, on the 

 under side, the striiB in basal area are very well marked and edged with white. 



