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less distinct in the smaller, paler specimens^ Fore wing : costa 

 edged with creamy ia basal fourth, and beyond that by a very 

 slender black line ; a small black mark on costal nervure at base ; 1st 

 discocellular spot close to base, 2ad about middle of cell ; a small 

 extra-cellular spot occurs immediately below the middle cellular spot 

 in both wings of one of the larger examples, and (minutely) in the 

 left wing of the two smaller examples ; 6 spots in oblique discal row, 

 of which the 6th (wanting in one of the larger examples) is consider- 

 ably before and smaller than the rest and situated just below 1st 

 median nervule, while the 4th and 5th are slightly before the upper 

 three. Hind wing : ground-colour paler than that of fore wing, but 

 in the two large examples much clouded toith pinkish red, most 

 developed beyond discal series of spots (in which part there exists a 

 faint tinge of the colour in the smaller examples) ; 1st discocellular 

 spot at base, 2nd nearer to it than to terminal spot (which is slender 

 and sublunular) ; three other sub-basal black spots, one immediately 

 above, the others immediately below discoidal cell ; discal series 

 consisting of 8 small spots, of which the 1st is considerably the 

 largest, close to costa, and (as well as the 8th, on inner margin) 

 situated far before the rest, and the 6th (between 1st median nervule 

 and submedian nervure) is sublunular, elongate, and a little before 

 the 5th and 7th ; neuration between sub-maiginal and hind-marginal 

 black streaks more or less defined with black. Cilia as on upper- 

 side. 



Head fuscous above, creamy, or creamy and fulvous-ochreous, 

 frontally ; a white line round the eyes ; palpi fuscous above, ochreous- 

 creamy beneath ; antennse fuscous above, creamy-whitish beneath, 

 the tip and the underside of the elongate incrassation chestnut-red. 

 Thorax black above, with fulvous-ochreous collar and creamy- 

 ochreous pterygodes — creamy-ochreous mixed with white beneath. 

 Legs creamy-ochreous throughout. Abdomen above and laterally 

 paler or deeper fulvous-ochreous, beneath paler ; an inferior lateral 

 black line, bordered on each side by a series of white marks. 



2 . Like S • Fore wing : upper three spots of discal series of 

 underside well represented and completely united, so as to form a 

 conspicuous, transverse, fuscous streak, about midway between 

 terminal discocellular spot and hind-marginal border ; base with a 

 moderate fuscous suffusion ; inner edge of iiind-marginal border more 

 deeply indenting ground-colour on nervules. Hind wing : a moderate 

 basal fuscous suffusion ; spots of underside better indicated than 

 in male ; apical fuscous and submarginal streak well-developed. 

 Underside. — As in larger males ; but silvery-marked submarginal 

 streak broken in fore wing into six quite separate spots, and pinkish- 

 red clouding of hind wing, though generally diffused, not so bright, 

 especially just before submarginal streak. 



2 S (smaller and paler), Orarora, November. 



2 S (larger and brighter), Okavango River, December. 



1 $ , Otiembora, between 20th November and 2nd December. 



The amount of variation in so small a number of specimens is very 

 noteworthy, and indicates the unstable condition of a species to all 



