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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
band narroiver than in fore-wing, irregularly dentate on nervules on its 
inner edge, gradually diminishing as far as first median nervule, where 
it ends ; a clothing of pale-yellow hairs on the dusky portion of wing 
near base and inner margin ; yellow field generally more or less finely 
irrorated with blackish. Under side. — Fore-wing : pale ochreous- 
yellow, almost cream-colour on inner margin ; costa rather narrowly 
from base, and broad hind-marginal border, of a lighter or darker 
greenisli-ijellow ; disco-cellular spot black and conspicuous ; along inner 
edge of hind-marginal band, and marking its separation from the yellow 
ground-colour, is a row of sub-triangular dusky-blackish spots, com- 
mencing on costa (in the hind-marginal band), with some ferruginous- 
blackish, often half-obsolete spots, but below third median nervule, 
where the band narrows, marking its internal edge. Hind-wing: 
wholly of the same greenish-yellow as border of fore-wing : disco- 
cellular spot bright silvery in a ferruginous ring, usually with a 
smaller, similar, but duller spot touching its upper edge ; near hind- 
margin, and parallel to it (as if continuous of the transverse row in 
fore-wing), a row of seven more or less conspicuous ferruginous spots, 
commencing with a rather larger spot on costa, and extending to 
immediately above submedian nervure, 
$ Ground-colour much the same as in $, sometimes rather darker, 
the pink lustre much fainter ; hind-7)iarginal hands spotted with yellow. 
Fore-iuing : basal blackish much broader than in shading off into 
dusky-greenish, which extends along costa to hind-marginal band and 
to before middle of inner margin ; disco-cellular spot rounder and 
usually rather larger ; hind-marginal band usually rather broader and 
blacker, containing six or seven sidphur-yelloiv spots, five of which form 
a curved row near apex, from costa to third median nervule (the first 
three of these are elongate, the two others rounded) ; another, always 
present, between second and first median nervules ; and the seventh 
spot, generally indistinct, and often wanting, immediately below first 
median nervule. Hind-iving : wholly suffused with dusky-greenish ; 
disco-cellular orange spot more conspicuous than in $ ; hind-marginal 
black band not so dark as in fore-wing, not well-defined on its inner 
edge, in some specimens extending almost to submedian nervure, in 
others only to second median nervule, often spotless, but sometimes con- 
taining on its inner side from three to five pale-yellow spots (those 
nearer anal angle becoming merged with the ground-colour). Under 
SIDE. — Usually somcivhat deeper in colour. Fore-wing : ochreous-yellow 
ground-colour darker, not paler, on inner margin. Hind-iving : trans- 
verse row of ferruginous spots not so conspicuous. In both sexes, 
down on forehead and front of thorax, antennse, legs, and costal edges 
of a reddish-pink colour ; fringes varied with pink above, wholly pink 
beneath. 
Dimorphic formof^. — Orange-yellow ground-colour replaced hj greyish- 
ivhite. Fore-wing : dusky-grey suffusion from base forms a conspicuous 
