238 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
ones divided by inter-nervular folds). Hind-iving : median stripe 
variable in width, running obliquely from costa about middle across ' 
outer third of cell to beyond first median nervule, a little before and ' 
above anal angle, — its inner edge almost straight (only slightly in- | 
dented on nervures), its outer edge emitting more or less prominent 
nervular dentations ; commencement of stripe, above first subcostal 
nervure, very much narrower than rest of it, — middle part of stripe 
extending beyond extremity of discoidal cell, — termination below first 
median nervule elongate, narrow, more or less acuminate inferiorly, not 
approaching near inner margin ; submarginal series of inter-nervular 
spots lying between apex and submedian nervure, the spots below 
radial nervule in pairs (of which that between second and third median 
nervules is usually more or less enlarged), while those above it are 
almost always single ; a small anal-angular white marginal lunule very 
near termination of median stripe. Under side. — Hind-ioing and- 
cqncal area of fore-wing dark-broion {sovictimes with more or less of a 
reddisli-ochrcoiis tinge), nearly ahoays - clouded mcsially with shining pale- 
greyish ; neuration black ; inter-nervular rays indistinctly hlackish ; in 
hind-wing a consjncuous suh-marginal, suh-metallic, very pale creamy stripe. 
Fore-iving : dull brownish-black ; brown of apical area clouded with 
pale-greyish costally, both a little beyond extremity of discoidal cell 
and a little before apex, — the two clouds, in the best-marked examples, 
indistinctly converging on radial nervules ; hind-marginal series of very 
small spots usually better developed than on upper side, seldom alto- 
gether absent, but sub-metallic pale-creamy instead of greenish-blue. 
Hind-ioing : submarginal stripe rather variable in width, and more 
perceptibly submacular when narrower; it occupies a corresponding 
position to that of the series of spots on upper side, and, like it, begins 
marginally at apex, and ends marginally between first and second 
median nervules ; basi-costal space strongly tinged with reddish- 
ochreous above costal nervure ; three longitudinal black streaks in dis- 
coidal cell from a common stem, — the upper one much shorter than | 
the others ; anal-angular marginal lunule rather larger than on upper 
side, and metallic-creamy instead of white ; a larger spot of the same 
tint, variable in size and form, but usually sub-lunulate, at some dis- 
tance before anal angle, above submedian nervure, close to inner 
margin ; median shining-greyish fascia sometimes faint or partly eva- 
nescent, rarely almost wholly obsolete except for a pale scaling about 
bases of median nervules, — when best developed, extending slightly 
before middle from costa to inner margin, and externally somewhat 
diffused and radiating on median nervules (and rarely on subcostal 
nervule). Head black, with two white spots in front, two at bases of 
antennae, and two (wider apart) behind these on vertex ; palpi black 
with a white spot at base and a white tip ; an outward and inferior half- 
ring round eyes white. Thorax black, with three successive pairs of 
well-separated small white spots dorsally on the fore part ; breast with 
