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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
costa from base to a little before middle edged witii orange-yellow ; 
an elongate blackish spot on costa a little beyond middle ; spots at 
extremities of nervules indistinct or almost obsolete, but nervules 
themselves black or blackish close to hind-margin. 
^ White of a more ydloivish tint than in $ ; the apical patch hright- 
orange. Fore-ioing : disco-cellular spot larger and rounder than in 
$ ; orange apical band divided lengthwise by a row of four rather 
large wedge-shaped black spots, the black bands bordering it broader 
than in $, and extending to posterior angle ; a large subquadrate 
blackish spot on disc, immediately above submedian nervure ; basal 
clouding much darker and more extended than in ^, usually filling 
basal half of cell, and extending rather widely along inner margin as 
far or nearly as far as black quadrate spot. Hind-wing: on costa 
beyond middle a blackish streak commences, narrowing and gradually 
disappearing towards centre of wing ; hind-margin broadly black, 
emitting deep acute dentations on nervules. Under side. — 3fo7^e deeply 
tinted tha7i in hind-iving and apical patch of fore-wing externally 
didl lemon-yelloiv. Fore-wing : inner portion of apical patch tinged 
w^ith ochrey-orange and traversed (as on upper side) by a series of 
black spots ; disco-cellular and inner-marginal spots as on upper side. 
Hiiid-iving : a narrow black spot, immediately surmounted by a white 
one at extremity of cell ; transverse blackish stripe from costa beyond 
middle strongly marked as far as third median nervule, and beyond 
its extremity a blackish spot below that nervule ; a second blackish 
spot below first median nervule. 
Second {^Dimorphic) Forra of 5. — Orange at apex of fore-ioing wholly 
tuanting, but to some extent replaced by three or four rather small, 
rounded, separate whitish spots ; black markings generally broader 
and somewhat diffused on their edges. 
This form is in the male sex readily separable from its near allies 
by the great development and intensity of the apical black of the fore- 
wings, which forms a broad inner margin to the violet band, much 
reducing the width and more or less the length of the latter. The 
outer black margin of the violet also wholly wants (or has only very faint 
traces of) the pale-grey clouding conspicuous in lone. The decidedly 
yellow colouring of the under side is further a very characteristic feature, 
and is pronounced in both sexes. The two forms of $ present on the 
upper side no salient points of distinction from those of lone (varying 
in the dusky clouding of basal areas, and to a less extent in yellowish 
tinting, much in the same way), but in the red-tipped $ the black 
spots traversing the red seem to be invariably much larger and nearer 
to its inner edge, while the red itself occupies a smaller space, scarcely 
extending below third median nervule. In several $ s (of both forms) 
the angulated blackish discal ray of the under side of the hind-wings 
is completed by a variably-developed spot between second and first 
median nervules. 
