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SIDE. — Considerably paler ; darker spots of fore-wing scarcely perceptible, 
Eind-wing : darker spots less indistinct, occasionally pretty well de- 
fined, especially the large first spot in discal row and the spot preced- 
ing it between costal and subcostal nervures. 
Head above almost black, with a frontal transverse ochre-yellow 
streak and also a vertical one ; on inner edge of each eye a small 
ochre-yellow spot; yalpi above with mixed black and ochre-yellow 
hair, beneath all ochre-yellow with a tinge of rufous ; antennm black, 
with the club creamy-yellow beneath. Body above black, beneath 
ashy-grey ; front of thorax beneath dull ochre-yellow in the middle ; 
legs ochre-yellow with tarsi rather paler. 
$ Very much pcder, dull pale reddish-brown ivith a slight violaceous 
gloss ; fore-iuing luith large disco-celhdar and disced vitreous spots. Fore- 
wing : two subterminal disco-cellular vitreous spots obliquely placed, 
contiguous, the lower and outer one larger ; above first of these spots 
a smaller subcostal one ; small vitreous spots at beginning of discal 
row larger than in three or four in number ; vitreous spots of lower 
part of discal row four — the first rather small, between third and 
second median nervules, the second very large between second and 
first median nervules and just below lower disco-cellular spot, and the 
third and fourth very small, one above the other, between first median 
nervule and submedian nervure ; all these vitreous spots more or less 
edged narrowly with blackish. Hind-wing : spots as in but more 
distinct on the paler ground-colour. Under side. — Faler ; vitreous 
spots of fore-wing without dark edges ; darker sp)ots of hind-iving itsually 
less distinct ; in both luings a dull-iuhitish linear hind-marginal edging. 
Hind-iving : inner-marginal area paler, inclining to dull-whitish. 
Head and body very much paler than in greyish- white beneath ; 
palpi beneath and legs merely tinged with ochre-yellow. 
This species is closely allied to P. Sahadius, (Boisd.), of Mauritius, 
but differs, as far as the ^ sex is concerned, in its much darker and 
less rufous colour, very much larger black spots (two good-sized ones 
instead of a single small one in discoidal cell of fore-wing), and fuscous 
instead of yellow-ochreous cilia ; as well as in the possession of two 
small vitreous spots at the beginning of the discal row of the fore- 
wing. I have not seen the $ Sabadius, but judging from Boisduval's 
figure and description {Faune Ent. de Madag., &c., p. 62, pL 9, f. 2), 
the cellular and lower discal vitreous spots in the fore-wing of JS^ot- 
toana ^ are considerably larger, and the two lowest of the latter are 
only represented by a fuscous mark in Sabadius. 
I found this butterfly rarely in the Kiiysna district of the Cape Colony, 
firstly in October and November 1858, and again from the middle of February 
to April 1859. I did not meet with it at all numerously in Natal, but cap- 
tured occasional s about D'Urban during February and at the beginning of 
April 1867. Colonel Bowker has taken several examples in the same neigh- 
bourhood in August ; and Mr. A. D. Millar informs me that the butterfly is 
found numerously at Sydenham near D'Urban. It is quite a woodland species, 
