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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
nervure ; immediately before cilia a partly obsolescent series of inter- i 
nervnlar white dots. Hind- wing : usually a wMtish spot in discoidal j 
cell towards extremity ; a discal row of two or three (usually rather ; 
indistinct) spots between second subcostal and first median nervules; 
two or three indistinct pre-ciliary whitish dots near apex. Under 
SIDE. — Dark-brown, with all the horders of hind-iving and costa and apex 
of fore-wing densely hut tmcqually irrorated with whitish ; hind-wing \ 
luith two very narrow transverse stripes sharply defined by blacJdsh edges. 
Fore-wing : base of cell irrorated with whitish ; costal dashes repre- 
sented by more distinct small spots ; a good-sized quadrate white spot 
on costa before middle ; a faint transverse whitish streak at extremity 
of discoidal cell ; other spots larger and better defined than on upper 
side ; ground-colour paler near inner margin. Hind-wing : base 
whitish ; sub-basal stripe from costa to submedian nervure, angulated 
and more slender inferiorly ; discal stripe widely interrupted on first 
subcostal nervule, irregularly dentate on its inner edge, more regularly 
and acutely on its outer edge, attenuated inferiorly and ending on sub- 
median nervure. 
$ Like but all the white markings (except discal spots of hind- 
wing) better developed and more sharply defined, especially transverse 
stripes on under side of hind-wing, the edgings of which are quite 
black. 
This is a very distinct species, differing from all its congeners in 
its very small white spots, and (on the under side) in its dark ground- 
colour and very narrow sharply-defined black-edged transverse stripes 
of the hind-wings. 
Only ten specimens (tliree $ s) have come under my notice. The first was 
taken near Murraysburg, about the centre of the Cape Colony, in 1864, by 
Dr. J. J. Muskett ; three were captured by Mrs. Barber on the Fish River in 
November 187 1. On the i8th and 20th August 1873 I met with three 
examples in Little Namaqualand ; and Colonel Bowker took three at Uitenhage 
on the 6th October 1879. 
I took all the few examples that I saw in Namaqualand ; they settled on 
the ground in dry stony places, and were not easily taken. Mrs. Barber wrote 
that it was very numerous at Fort Brown on a particular hillock covered with 
Barleria shrubs, but that she did not notice it elsewhere in the vicinity. Colonel 
Bowker found his Uitenhage specimens " at the foot of stony hills." 
Localities of Pyrgus Bandaster, 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony, 
a. Western Districts. — Oograbies, and between Komaggas and Spec- 
takel, Namaqualand District. 
b. Eastern Districts.— Uitenhage {J. H. Boivker). Murraysburg 
{J. J. Muskett). Fort Brown, Fish River, Albany District 
{Mrs. Barber). 
