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spots (of which the middle one is twice as large as the others) in an 
irregular line between base of third median nervule and just below 
first median nervule; a much smaller roughly sub-triangular subcostal 
darker patch beyond middle — its base on third median nervule — out- 
wardly edged by a thin oblique slightly curved streak composed of 
three minute vitreous spots ; at apex and posterior angle a good-sized 
darker mark, with tiaces of a connecting submarginal dark fascia 
between the two ; close to hind-margin a black streak, immediately 
succeeded by an indistinct yellowish-white one. Hind-wing : an in- 
distinct broad darker fascia about middle ; beyond it traces of a more 
indistinct dark streak ; at apex a darker mark extending along upper 
third of hind-margin. Cilia blackish, with pale-greyish internervular 
interruptions, indistinct in fore-wing but well defined in hind-wing. 
Under side. — Ferruginous-orange, with hlackish striae indicating roughly 
the outline of the darker ])atches of upper side. Forc-iving : vitreous 
spots as on upper side, but with fuscous edges, rarely an additional 
small one in discoidal cell immediately below ordinary one ; a fuscous 
line marking extremity of cell; continuous of vitreous streak of three 
subcostal spots, two fuscous spots between upper radial and third 
median nervules ; inner-marginal border ashy-grey. Hind-iving : a 
thin terminal disco-cellular streak ; base ashy-grey ; an interrupted 
sub-basal stria, and a less widely interrupted but submacular and irre- 
gular discal stria from near costa to submedian nervure. 
Head (with palpi and antenna?) and hody above like upper side of 
wings; palpi beneath dull ferruginous-ochreous; antennm h^nQ^ili white, 
except black apical half of club. Thorax and ahdonien beneath dull- 
brown, legs also dull-brown, except tibia and tarsus of front pair, which 
are snoio-white cjctcrncdly ; the tibia and first joint of tarsus bearing a 
dense snoiu-iohite fringe. 
$ Like the discal spots of fore-wings rather larger. Under 
SIDE. — Orange paler. 
Antennce not white beneath, but with whitish half-rings. Fore-legs 
not white on tibia and tarsus, but wholly brown and without fringe. 
A large $, taken by Mr. C. F. Palmer near Barberton, Transvaal, 
on 1 2th April 1888, varies in having the upper side more uniformly 
dark and with a more apparent purplish gloss, while the under side is 
very much darker, the ferruginous-orange only appearing as an upper 
discal patch (small and ill defined in hind-wings), the rest of the sur- 
face being not much paler and of the same colour as the upper side.^ 
In the ordinary $ it occasionally happens that the two minute sub- 
costal spots about middle are obsolescent, or (very rarely) absent entirely. 
^ Mr. A. G. Butler {Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 81) observes that $ specimens 
received from Wadelai (about 3° N. lat. in Central Africa) " show no trace of the ochra- 
ceous colouring on the under surface vi^hich characterises the $ specimens." The ordinary 
South-African ? s that I have seen present, on the contrary, a somewhat paler (but quite 
as decided) ferruginous-orange under side than the S s. It is not impossible that the 
Tropical specimens may prove to constitute a distinct race or variety. 
