SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
rather diffused, and near base extending a little into discoidal cell, its 
extremity broad and more or less truncate. Hind-wing : base rather 
widely blackish except on inner-marginal border ; a wide costal black 
stripe, a small downward projection of its extremity marking commence- 
ment of discal ray ; this ray linear or obsolete as far as radial nervule, 
but inferiorly broad, black, diffused internally, but externally more or 
less completely confluent with a wide hind-marginal black border radi- 
ating deeply on nervules, so as to leave nothing more than four nar- 
row white rays or white lines on inter-nervular folds. Under side. — 
Fore-iving : base sometimes slightly tinged with sulphur-yellow ; apical 
orange well developed, rarely with the faintest trace of inner dark spot, 
externally bordered (very broadly apically) with pale sulphur-yellowish ; 
disco-cellular terminal dot always distinct ; inner-marginal stripe grey, 
with extremity blackish. Hind-iving : white, yellowish-white, or dull- 
creamy ; costa conspicuously orange-edged from base to beyond middle; 
a disco-cellular terminal black dot, in contact anteriorly with a much 
larger pointed orange spot ; a very faint shade indicating position of 
costal stripe of upper side ; discal ray and hind-marginal border also 
usually scarcely indicated, but the former sometimes better expressed 
(especially at its costal origin), and in a few specimens diffusedly marked 
in brownish-red or pale-ferruginous. In both wings a terminal nervular 
series of minute but very distinct black dots. 
$ White, or yellowish-white ; orange of apical patch exceedingly vari- 
able in extent,~in some examples almost as in except for a very faint 
and nctrroio traversing scries of dushy nervular marks, — more often 
reduced to a narrow curved hand only partly invading a hroad inner 
Uackish border, — still more diminished to a central series of three to five 
separate very didl pale-orange, yellowish, or even ivhitish, spots in a black 
apical patch, — rarely wholly obsolete, leaving thepcdch dusky -blackish only. 
Fore-wing : disco-cellular terminal spot much larger than in and 
almost always touching inner-marginal black stripe, which is broader, 
and almost fills discoidal cell, — its superior terminal portion projecting 
so as to join inner border of apical patch on second median nervule. 
Hind-ioing : basal blackish extending thinly beyond cell as far as lower 
part of discal ray ; costal stripe as in J ; a small, but usually quite 
distinct, terminal disco-cellular black dot ; discal ray complete from 
its costal origin, and usually more distinguishable from hind-marginal 
border than in J, the white inter-nervular rays being broader, and 
sometimes themselves confluent. Undee side. — Much duller and deeper- 
tinted than in $ ; hincl-iving and apex of fore-iuing varying from dull 
greyish-creamy or yelloiuish- creamy to reddish-creamy, sparsely irrorated 
with dark-grey ; markings similar to those of but stronger. Fore- 
wing : apical orange very variable, usually much narrower and fainter 
than in ^, never wholly absent ; a dusky streak traversing it near its 
inner border. 
A typical specimen {$) of Wallengren's Fhlegetonia, kindly lent 
