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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
which become merged in the blackish bands on inner margin and hind- 
margin (the latter of which is broader than in J) near anal angle. 
Under side. — Like that of Fore-iuing : apical marking yellower, and 
more broadly red inwardly, than in $ ; the black spots dividing it 
larger, sometimes contiguous ; basal grey mixed with lemon-yellow. 
Hmd-iving : yellowish, darker than in $ ; row of spots beyond middle 
larger. Cilia of fore-wing reddish-grey, but white or whitish near 
posterior angle ; of hind- wing white, mixed with reddish in 
Variety A. $ and — Usually smaller ; exp. al.^ {$) i in. 9I- 
10^ lin. ; ($) I in. 8^ lin. — 2 in. 
(J Basal grey much fainter and less developed, especially in fore- 
wing, where it is sometimes almost obsolete ; hind-marginal border of 
hind-wing broken up into completely separate spots, except near apex. 
$ More or less tinged with lemon or ochreous-yellow ; basal suf- 
fusion not nearly so dark, mixed with ochreous-yellow scales ; apical 
patch of fore- wing usually larger and of brighter red, its inner border 
being narrower and in the upper part more or less diffused ; hind- 
marginal border of hind-wing narrower, radiating little or not at all on 
nervules. 
Under side in both sexes of a deeper creamy-tint in hind-wing and 
at apex of fore-wing ; spots of discal series (especially in hind-wing 
and in ^) more rounded and sub-oceliate, with centres more or less 
glistening. 
{Hah. — Kaffraria Proper, Natal, North- West Transvaal, and Eastern 
Tropical South Africa.) 
Of this variety, which links the typical Annm to Wallengrenii, 
Butl., I possess a dwarf ^, taken in some part of Kaffraria by Mr. H. 
J. Atherstone, which expands only I in. 6 lin. 
Wallengren's reference of his Annce to the Oriental genus Tliestias, 
and his description of its apical patch as " rufo-fulva," for long puzzled 
me ; and it was not until I 88 I, when Mr. Aurivillius kindly sent me 
a typical specimen from the Stockholm Museum, that I was enabled to 
identify it as the large African form of Danae,'' figured by Doableday 
and mentioned by Boisduval in 1847, separated by Mr. Butler in 
1873 as Cinerescens. 
Annce is well distinguished from the Indian Danae, Fab., by its 
larger size, much greater development of the basal dusky clouding in 
both wings, and hind-marginal blackish border in the hind-wing. In 
the too, the apical patch is redder (not so thoroughly crimson), with 
a broader blackish border on its inner edge, while in the $ the same 
marking is altogether different alike in its duller tint and the far 
greater development of its dark borders and intersecting macular ray. 
On the under side there is a closer resemblance, but Annm has all the 
markings stronger, a wider red flush on inner side of the apical 
patch, and in the fore-wing a distinct blackish streak bounding the 
basal grey. The true Danae is intermediate in characters between 
