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SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTP:RFLIES, 
dotj and by a short upward diffused projection meeting very broad 
inner border of apical patch on second median nervule ; in specimens 
where inner-marginal black extends to posterior angle a white or yel- 
lowish spot is isolated just below lower extremity of apical orange. 
Hind-iving : upper part of discal ray prolonged to angulation on radial 
nervule, lower part very much broader than in $, — the whole ray more 
or less confluent broadly on nervules with hind-marginal macular black 
border. Under side. — Hind-wing and ajncal horder of fore-iuing more 
or less strongly tinged with creamy yellow ; indication of dark upper-side 
markings not so pronounced as in ^, except termination of inner-mar- 
ginal band of fore-wing, which is blackish. Fore-wing : basal area 
widely suffused with pale-yellow. Hind-iving : ferruginous discal ray 
more strongly marked. 
Variety A. $ and $ {Omphalo'ides, Butler). 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 5I-8 lin. ; ($) I in. 5-8 lin. 
$ All the Uach markings more or less reduced^ but especially the 
lower portion of discal ray of hind-wing, which is never broad, often 
diffused, and sometimes obsolescent.^ Under side. — Hind-iving and 
anneal larder of fore-wing more or less tinged ivith creamy-pink, — in the 
darker specimens sparsely irrorated with brown atoms. 
$ Black markings similarly reduced, as a rule, but variable ; in 
some examples as strongly developed as in type-form. Under side. — 
Pinkish tinge usually deeper but duller than in ^ ; in some examples re- 
placed by pale creamy-brownish ; hind- wing faintly striolated with brown. 
{Hah. — Cape Colony and Delagoa Bay.) 
I am unable to separate from this variety a series of still smaller 
specimens which I captured at Kobertson, Western Cape Colony, in 
January of 1 876 and 1877. The <J s expand only I in. 3^—6 lin., 
and the $ s i in. 5 lin. The former exhibit a complete gradation, from 
one with black and well-developed longitudinal bands and a thin discal 
ray in the hind-wing, to an individual in which all these markings are 
wholly absent. Two similarly unbanded $ s have reached me from 
Namaqualand District and one from Carnarvon District. The $ s do 
not differ in marking or colouring from the smaller ordinary ones of the 
variety.^ 
The Exole $ of Eeiche {o]p. cit.) seems to me identical with the 
larger and darker examples of the J Om2)hale. My conclusion from 
Wallengren's description (loc. cit.), that his Achine $ was referable to 
the ^ Omphale, has been confirmed by the loan of a typical example 
from the Stockholm Museum. After a careful comparison of the types 
of Mr. Butler's Omphalo'idcs and Hyhridus — the $ of the latter being 
one of my own captures at Plettenberg Bay — I was unable to keep 
^ In a single i which I captured at Plettenberg Ba}' all the black markings but the 
borders of apical patch are wanting. 
^ I believe that the only Teracolus I ever saw on the wing at Cape Town was a $ of this 
variety. It was flying in the Cathedral enclosure on the 14th December 1S78 ; but my 
attempts to capture it M'ith a pith helmet were without success. 
