T32 
SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEKFLTES. 
discoidal cell to near costa, and its outer extremity usually united to 
inner black border of apical marking, on third median nervule, by a 
narrow, upward, blackish streak. Ilind-iuing : grey at base and costal 
band similar to the same in J, but broader and darker ; from extremity 
of band a more or less marked blackish streak extends almost to middle 
of hind-margin, where it unites with a broad diffused submacular blackish 
border, and from whence it turns off at right angles to beyond middle 
of inner margin, this latter portion being very much broader than the 
rest. Under side. — Duller in colour than in and usually more or 
less tinged with yelloiv. Fore-nnng : a blackish streak bordering inner 
side of apical marking ; inner- marginal band greyish, ending in a well- 
marked black spot, which is often united by a thin, faint, blackish streak, 
to the inner border of apical marking, as on upper side ; base some- 
times tinged with pale yellow. Hind-vjing : greyer in tint than in J, 
but marked similarly, excepting more or less indistinct pale-brownish 
traces of the angulated band of upper side. 
The apical red in the ^ presents various gradations through orange 
to dull-yellowish, and is rarely wanting altogether, being replaced by 
whitish spots. 
The $ varies considerably, not only in the tints of the under side 
above mentioned, but in the development of the black markings, more 
especially as regards the inner edging of the apical patch, the longi- 
tudinal blackish band in both fore and hind wings, and the hind- 
marginal spots of the hind-wings.-^ The $ also presents much variation 
in her considerably heavier black markings, which are sometimes so 
enlarged as to leave only isolated patches of the whitish or yellowish 
ground-colour. 
The T. Hero of Butler (the types of which, a $ and a I have 
examined) is founded upon a $ which presents these very strongly 
developed blackish markings in conjunction with a dull-yellowish 
ground-colour and a scarcely brighter apical patch ; and upon a ^ in 
which the blackish markings of the fore-wings are reduced, — the inner- 
marginal band being dusky-grey and becoming obsolete beyond middle, 
and the inner edging of apical patch being also almost obsolete. Butler's 
T. Trimeni (of which I have also examined the types) is founded 
on specimens identified with Htibner's figures above cited (including 
some taken by myself in the Knysna District of Cape Colony), which 
cannot, in my opinion, be held distinct from typical AcJiine. Htibner's 
figures represent a $ and $ in which the upper-side black markings 
are, though very distinct, considerably narrowed ; but it seems to me 
impossible to separate Htibner's $ from that originally figured by 
Cramer, which only differs in its duller white ground-colour and heavier 
black markings. 
Hgperidcs, Butl., is founded on a $ and two $ s collected by 
^ In two S s among those that I captured near Grahamstown in the Cape Colony, there 
are faint blackish traces of an angulated discal ray on the upper side of the hind-wings. 
