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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
very sharp nervular dentations, — superiorly the band consists of two 
very narrow attenuated rather indistinct separate sagittate marks, but 
from lower radial nervule is continuous, widening on inner margin ; 
upper three of succeeding series of spots subapical, slightly diffused, 
not lunulate. Hind-wing : discal band much narrowed on costa, but 
broader than in fore-wing from costal to submedian nervure, — its inner 
edge even but somewhat convex inwardly, its outer edge not nearly 
so sharply dentated as in fore-wing; white spots of succeeding series 
much smaller than in fore-wing, scarcely lunulate, except the upper two, 
which are almost obsolete. On the fuscous ground there are darker 
traces of the submarginal markings and (in the fore-wing) of disco- 
cellular ones. Under side. — Area before median streak very pale- 
greyish (becoming whitish along inner-marginal border of hind-wing) ; 
beyond median streak follows whitish, representing band of upper side, 
but its external edge and the succeeding white spots very vague ; hind- 
marginal border rather widely pale-greyish tinged (more decidedly in 
fore-wing) with ochrey-yellow ; fine lineolar markings before middle 
much as in but broader in figure, and much less conspicuous. Fore- 
wing : costal bar whitish, immediately before transverse median streak, 
which is not nearly so dark as in Eind-iving : median streak with 
a distinct curve inward superiorly. 
This Harma combines many characters of H. Alcimeda, (Godt.), 
Variety A., and S. Ccenis^ (Drury), the ^ being on the whole nearer to 
that sex of the former, while the $ is distinctly intermediate between 
those of the two species named. The J Coranus is on the upper side 
very near Var. A. of the $ Alcimeda, both in tint of ground-colour 
and in markings, but it has much less grey suffusion at the bases ; 
presents no trace (except in one example the faintest indication near 
inner margin of hind-wings) of the inner submarginal lunulate or 
dentate black streak ; and wants altogether the hind-marginal orange- 
ochreous spots ; on the under side the resemblance to Yar. Alcimeda 
is also close, but difference is observable in the paler ground before 
middle with more defined linear black figures ; the darker (and in hind- 
wings straighter) median transverse streak ; the very much broader 
and better defined brownish-grey fascia immediately succeeding the 
median streak; and the very much fainter ochrey-red tinge on the 
hind-margins. The much larger size and considerably less prominence 
of the apical production of the fore-wings and the anal-angular one of 
the hind-wings, readily distinguish the $ Coranus from its smaller ally, 
and approximate it to the $ Cmnis, to which it is further related by 
the absence of the hind-marginal orange-ochreous spots. It is sepa- 
rated from the latter by its want of the inner submarginal dentate or 
lunulate streak, and the more repjular and less strong: dentation of the 
outer one ; while on the under side it has no trace of the peculiar 
very pale greenish tint of Cmnis; the common median streak is de- 
flected inwardly near the costa of the fore-wings, instead of running 
