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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
vaguely with a greyish-white shade along its upper half ; sometimes 
a ray of chrome-yellow along submedian nervure from base. 
Variety of — (Yar. Flavkla, Grandidier.) — More or less tinged 
with lemon-yellow, especialli/ near margins : Imid-marginal blackish 
border much narroiver {especially in hind-iving) and more sharply den- 
tated inwardly ; basal blacJdsh of fore-wing all luanting excepit a narrow 
faint basi-costal border^ which scarcely enters discoidal cell (except 
very slightly and diffusedly at base and along its upper edge), and 
terminates somewhat truncately a little before extremity of cell. 
Fore-iuing : subapical spots in border yellowish. Hind-ioing : basal 
irroration wanting or very slight and restricted ; hind-marginal border 
less than half as wide as in typical its inner edge much better 
defined, and prominently (in one example acutely) dentating the ground- 
colour on nervules. Under side. — Hind-wing and apex of fore-wing 
more creamy in tint ; blackish border considerably narrower and duller 
in fore-wing, and scarcely perceptible in hind-w^ing. Fore-iving : no 
cellular blackish (except, in one specimen, the very faintest trace along 
upper part of cell). 
In this butterfly the dissimilarity of the sexes is so extreme that 
one cannot w^onder at Boisduval's treating them originally (1833) as 
distinct species. The variety of the $ just described was, however, at 
first regarded by that author as the ^ of the typical ^, w^hich he 
named Malatha ; but this was rectified in the Species General (1836), 
which recognised that Orbona and Malatlia were $ and $ of one 
species, and noted the so-called $ of Malatha as a form of the 
I have examined the type of Saba in the Banksian Collection at 
the British Museum. It is a small but broadly black-marked ^ from 
" Sierra Leone." The $ figured by Cramer as Epap^hia (stated to be 
from the same locality) is very broadly black-marked, and is repre- 
sented as possessing an orange basal suffusion in discoidal cell of the 
fore-wing, and also a broad orange suffusion (outwardly fading into 
yellow) between the nervures in the basal half of the hind-wing. 
Drury's Hypatia is also a " Sierra Leone " $ ; it is larger than Cramer's 
specimen, and is figured as having a tinge of yellow over the basi- 
inner-marginal part of both wings on the upper side, and the border 
of the hind-wing narrower than in Cramer's figure ; while, on the 
under side, the suffusion of the cell in the fore-wing is pale ochreous- 
yellow, and there is scarcely a trace of the orange and yellow rays 
in the hind- wing. Godart's description of a likewise from Sierra 
Leone, accords better with Drury's than with Cramer's figures. Neither 
of the figures just mentioned exhibit the junction in the fore- wing of 
the disco-cellular with the hind-marginal blackish (on third median 
nervule), which usually occurs in the Natalian and Delagoa Bay speci- 
mens of the typical 
I do not remember to have seen, nor have I found any record of, 
any $ examples linking the variety Flavida with the typical $ ; but 
