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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
nate ; base with a white suffusion over the black extending into 
discoidal cell nearly as far as, or sometimes a little beyond, first spot. ' 
Hind-iuing : white patch occupying all basal half of wing, except a ' 
strongly white suffused, narrow, blackish base, and streak along sub- | 
median nervure, its outer edge rather irregular crossing discoidal cell | 
very near extremity, slightly impinging narrowly and diffusedly on the | 
black between nervules, and dentated by the black on nervules ; close 
to hind-margin, a series of seven rather small spots, of which the first is 
very small, often indistinct, and sometimes wanting, — the second and 
third rather broad sub-lunulate, — the fourth thin and lunulate, — the fifth 
and sixth thin and sagittiform, — and the seventh minute and linear, close 
to anal angle ; midway between outer edge of white patch and hind-mar- 
ginal series of spots, a row of three rather small rounded spots (inter-ner- 
vular) from radial to first median nervules, — rarely a minute fourth spot 
above radial nervnle ; at anal angle, usually a very indistinct ochreous- 
yellow spot. Cilia white, interrupted with black at the end of the 
nervules. Under side. — Pattern similar, hitt apical area of fore-iuing 
and outer area of Mnd-icing ochreous-yellow^ and bases of both tvings lake- 
red ; many of the white markings rather enlarged. Fore-wing : basal red 
fills discoidal cell as far as origin of first median nervule, and extends 
superiorly as far as third cellular spot ; apical ochreous-yellow enters 
cell as far as the third spot, and extends narrowly along costa as far as 
first spot ; second cellular spot produced by an incurved greyish pro- 
longation quite across cell ; sixth spot of discal series enlarged by a 
greyish ring ; black of ground limited to a small basal space below 
median nervure, the lower part of outer half of discoidal cell, and a 
space bounded by third median nervule, hind-margin, and outer edge 
of white patch. Hind-iuing : neuration and costal edge of white 
patch ochreous-yellow ; basal red narrow, outwardly black-edged, ex- 
tending very narrowly along inner margin ; patch externally with a 
black edging ; strongest from second subcostal nervule to anal angle, 
and along that inferior half immediately bounded by a series of four 
small lunulate white marks ; of the seven spots near hind-margin, 
the upper three are inwardly, the lower four both inwardly and out- 
wardly, black-edged; anal-angular spot large, ovate, of a brighter tint 
than the adjacent ochreous-yellow. 
Head black, with two large white spots on front, two smaller ones 
on vertex, a white outer fringe bordering the eyes, and white palpi. 
Thorax blaek, clothed above with white hair, except on collar, which 
liears two white spots; beneath with two large median and seven 
good-sized lateral white spots on each side. Legs white, with the. 
femora above black. Abdomen above mesially black, relieved on each 
side with white ; a conspicuous lateral band of ochreous-yellow from 
close to base almost to extremity ; beneath white, with a gradually- 
narrowing median black streak, the segmental incisions also marked 
with well-defined transverse black streaks in basal half. 
