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and with more or less of a violaceous gloss. Fore-wing : on inner mar- 
gin, from base to about middle, a dull-whitish space, not rising above 
first median nervule. Hind-wing : hefore anal angle, hekveen first 
median nervule and submedian nervure, om orange-red marking, divided 
ly a transverse Mack streak ; below this mark an orange spot on inner 
margin ; orange cilia as above. 
Jfead and body above much darker and browner than in Forestan 
or Pisistratus ; the spots of head as in Forestan, but with an additional 
median frontal spot, and all orange-red ; dbdonien with thin whitish 
median rings and orange-yellow incision rings. Beneath, palpi, median 
front of thorax, spots and tufts of legs, and median stripe of abdomen 
all orange-red. 
$ Like $, but slightly paler. 
This very handsome and distinct species is readily known by its 
want of any white band on the under side of the hind-wings and by 
the presence there of the vivid orange-red spots near the anal-angular 
lobe. In the former respect it is allied to the Malagasy Eatek, (Boisd.),-^ 
but this species has the under side of the hind-wings without marking 
of any kind. Perhaps the nearest known ally of Keithloa is the Soco- 
tran species named Jucunda by Butler (Froc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 
p. 179, pi. xviii. f. 8). This is very like Keithloa on the upper side, 
but wants the orange discal pubescence in the hind-wings ; and on the 
under side of the same wings it has, in addition to two orange-red 
marks near anal angle, some median marks of the same colour, the 
lowest and largest of which bears a black spot. 
I have the skins of two pupse sent to the Museum by Colonel 
Bowker from D'Urban in August 1881, from one of which the imago 
emerged in the following October. They are very like the pupa of 
Forestan^ being covered with a dense white efflorescence, but their 
colouring beneath this is dark-red instead of pale-greenish. 
Unlike its two South-African congGiiers, Forestan and Pisistratus, this 
butterfly has rather a limited range, and I have not found any record of its 
occurrence in Tropical Africa ; from its presence, however, at Delagoa Bay, it 
is very likely to extend into Mozambique. It is numerous on the Natal Coast, 
where its habits quite agree with those of its congeners just mentioned. I 
took many specimens about D'Urban in February 1867 ; and met with the 
species singly at Port Elizabeth in January, and at King William's Town in 
February 1878. Colonel Bowker, writing from D'Urban on 24th May 1887, 
observed : " Keithloa is very common here now, and I have been noticing the 
curious behaviour of the sexes. The $ darts away from a flowering-tree the 
species frequents and settles on the ground, closely followed by the ^ ; after a 
little she rises slowly, keeping her wings constantly fluttering, while the ^ 
circles round her ; and when they reach about a yard above the ground, off they 
^ This species was, I believe, erroneously catalogued as South-African in my earlier work 
(ii. p. 317). The specimen then described was ticketed "Natal" on the authority of Mr. 
E. L. Layard ; but I have little doubt that it was actually taken in Madagascar, and after- 
wards by accident was misplaced among the South-African allied species. 
