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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
$ Ground-colour much paler, sometimes nearly white ; orange apical ' 
patch paler and duller, ivith very slight pink gloss. Fore-wing : a I 
rather large, black, disco-cellular spot ; beyond it a curved discal trans- | 
verse row of five good-sized blackish spots crossing the orange, — the 
first and second respectively above and below first discoidal nervule, — 
the third and fourth respectively above and below second median 
nervule, — the fifth and largest between first median nervule and sub- 
median nervure ; base and costa greyish ; apical patch margined out- 
wardly with blackish, which slightly indents the orange on nervules, 
sometimes forming a large blackish mark at posterior angle, below and 
touching the orange. Hind-iuing : along hind-margin a row of large, 
ill-defined, blackish spots at extremities of nervules, but not reaching 
farther than extremity of second median nervule. Under side. — 
Fore-iving : white, or very pale-yellowish ; disco-cellular spot and row 
of spots as on upper side, but not so strongly marked ; costa and apex 
darker than in ^, the former faintly irrorated with brown, the latter 
more widely so than in $ ; hind-marginal dots as in <J. Hind-wing : 
clearer in tint than in $, not so reddish, irrorations darker ; a conspi- 
cuous, shining-white, disco-cellular spot ; a distinct angulated, brown, 
transverse discal stripe or shade, the edges of which are not clearly 
defined ; hind-marginal dots as in $ between nervules. A^kx of fore- 
wing more rounded than in 
In some specimens of the the discal blackish spots on the upper 
side are considerably smaller and fainter than as above described, and 
occasionally they are all but obsolete. 
Larva. — When first hatched, bright-orange ; afterwards brownish- 
green ; finally, dull glaucous bluish-green, with a darker median dorsal 
stripe, and a pale-yellow (almost white) stripe on each side above the 
legs. Food-plant, Cadaha Natalensis (Capparidcce). 
Pupa. — Bright-green, with a thin yellow lateral line. 
Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale, to whom I owe the above note of the 
larva and pupa, mentioned in a letter to me (and has also recorded in 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1877, pp. 273-275) that the <J Keiskamma 
( = Topha, Wallengr.) laid her small, fluted orange-coloured eggs singly 
on the summit of the flower-buds of the food-plant, and that the young 
larva penetrates the bud, where it passes its first stage. The latest 
colouring of the caterpillar assimilates so nearly to that of the leaves 
that it is difficult to discover the insect, and Mr. Weale obtained most 
of his specimens by beating the shrub. Finding that the pupae varied 
a good deal in colour when developed in confinement, Mr. Weale tried 
the effect of rearing some specimens " in glass test-tubes exposed on 
coloured cards, in which they were partially enveloped," with the result 
that on a vermilion card one pupa was pale-ochreous and another pale 
bluish-green ; on a gamboge-yellow card, bright-green ; on green card 
(cobalt and gamboge), ochreous ; on cobalt-blue card, greenish-white. 
Exposed on the food-plant in nature, the pupa was bright-green ; on 
