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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Exp. al., I in. 5-9 lin. I 
^. Dull-brown, each wing with a discal transverse roio of rather ' 
dull ochrey-redj Uack-centred spots. Fore-wing : swollen base of costal 
nervure ochrey-red ; five spots of discal row confluent, forming a toler- 
ably broad band near hind-margin. Hind-wing: spots of discal row 
three to five (the two upper ones often wanting), smaller than in fore- 
wing, quite separate, the last (close to anal angle) bipupillate ; in some 
examples a more or less distinct thin white line, black-edged on both 
sides, on inner and hind margins near anal angle. Under side. — Very 
closely striated transversely with numerous irregularly-confluent, slender , 
alternate, very pale-yellowish and fuscous streaks ; spots of transverse discal 
row "bright ochrey-yellow with brilliant-silvery centres. Fore-wing : swell- 
ing of costal nervure ochrey-yellow ; all inner-marginal area below 
median nervure and first median nervule dull-fuscous without any pale- 
yellowish striolation ; band of confluent spots edged with fuscous on 
both sides ; hind-marginal border beyond spots pale-yellowish, almost ' 
free from any black striolation, but with two well-defined, almost paral- 
lel, black linear streaks from costa to a little below first median ner- 
vule. Hind-wing : transverse striolation extends to inner-marginal 
edge ; five spots of discal row much larger than on upper side, con- 
tiguous, finely black-edged ; an additional, similar, larger spot before, 
and apart from, the row of five, between subcostal nervules ; submar- 
ginal black linear streaks as in fore-wing, but the inner one slightly 
sinuate-dentate. 
Paler, the striolation of the under side vaguely 'perceptible; ochrey- 
red spots larger ; in fore-wing more suffused, and forming a broader band ; 
in hind-wing not fewer than four {usually five), sometimes contiguous. 
Under side. — Fore-wing: the general striolation extending to inner 
margin. 
Specimens of both sexes taken at Delagoa Bay by Mrs. Monteiro are smaller 
and darker than those which I met with in Natal ; and in one $ the spots of 
the fore-wing on the upper side are very small, and those of the hind-wing 
obsolete except that close to anal angle. It is very singular that in all the six 
examples (three of each sex) captured by Mr. H. Barber in the Northern Trans- | 
vaal, in a $ obtained on the Upper Limpopo by Mr. E. C. Selous, and also in 
a $ taken by the former gentleman in the Matabele country, the inner of the 
two submarginal linear black streaks is in the fore-wing rather sharply dentate 
(instead of being nearly straight), and in the hind- wing quite deeply festooned 
(instead of being sinuate-dentate). I find the same peculiarity noted as present 
in the single specimen (a ) brought by the late Mr. C. J. Andersson from 
Damaraland ; but none of the Delagoa Bay examples exhibit it, nor does it . 
appear in the figure of the female obtained at Inhambane by the Peters Expe- 
dition. I cannot discover that this feature is associated with any other dis- 
tinction in the specimens possessing it, except a slight tendency to more con- 
fluence in the black striolse of the under side generally. 
The remarkable beauty of the under side of this butterfly isin striking con- 
trast to the dull Erebia-Yik.^ colouring of the upper side, and at once distin- 
guishes Panda from all the other South-African Satyrinoe. Its only known 
congener (P. Leda, of Gerstaecker, from Mombas) is of totally different aspect, 
owing to all the field of the wings being pure white ; the upper side having an 
