350 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
colouring nearer apex itself pale-ferruginous, enclosing a short vitreous 
streak of four spots on costa, and two pale indistinct lines, hind- 
marginal and submarginal ; a wavy streak of fuscous-ochreous reaches 
inner margin, leaving anal angle white ; on costa, between apical and 
central vitreous some ill-defined, elongate, blackish marks ; continuous 
of transverse line of apical vitreous, three or four blackish spots. Hind- 
wing : basal fuscous-ochreous as in fore-wing ; first subvitreous band of 
fore-wing continued to submedian nervure or almost to inner margin ; 
outer band irregular, narrow, merged with inner on costa, and only 
reaching first median nervule ; cell closed by a fuscous-ochreous streak, 
succeeded by a transverse macular row of the same hue quite across 
wing to inner margin, where it much widens, and is sometimes joined 
to an outer, parallel, incomplete, ochreous shade ; inner-marginal region 
densely fringed with long hairs ; a hind-marginal fuscous-ochreous 
bounding line from second median nervule to anal angle. Cilia in 
fore-wing brownish as far as first median nervule, thence white to pos- 
terior angle, with fuscous spots at ends of nervules ; in hind-wing 
broader (especially long about anal angle) white, with small fuscous 
spots at ends of median nervules only. Under side. — White purer ; 
basal colouring wliolly absent. Fore-wing : apical colouring very much 
paler, obsolescent on inner side, not varied with dark spots. Hind-' 
iving : vitreous markings indistinct ; ochreous stripes almost obsolete, 
but a conspicuous round black sjjot in fold of inner margin near anal 
angle, marking termination of outer one. 
Antennae white, with black club. Body above blackish, clothed 
with mixed ochreous-yellow and greyish hairs, beneath white ; abdomen 
above with thin white incision rings, a white anal tuft, and thin erect 
tufts of hairs. 
$ Quite like ^, except for its somewhat paler basal patches and 
larger apical patch in fore-wing. 
The peculiar and strongly-contrasted colouring and marking of this 
species at once distinguish it from its dull-tinted congener, C. Pil- 
laana^ and a further character of distinction is its much less excised 
inner margin of the fore-wings. 
Colonel Bowker discovered this beautiful Caprona in Kaffraria Proper in 
the year 1863, and forwarded several fine specimens to the South- African 
Museum. On the coast of Natal it is by no means rare : I took my first speci- 
men at D'Urban on 23rd June 1865, and subsequently (February and March 
1867) became well acquainted with the insect in that neighbourhood. It is 
not a rapid flyer, but has a rather fluttering motion on the wing ; it frequently 
lights on flowers, and sometimes on the under side of leaves, holding all the 
wings expanded. It seems to appear throughout the year, as Colonel Bowker 
took several in August 1878, and CajDtain Goodrich others in Zululand during 
October and November 1886. As noted in my former book (ii. p. 310), Colonel 
Bowker observed that, when in flight, this butterfly made a sharp creaking or 
buzzing noise. I failed to detect any sound of the kind in the living examples 
to which I listened in Natal ; but Colonel Bowker's observation is confirmed 
by his niece, Mrs. Bailie, who informed me that in 1869 she was attracted to 
