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SOUTH-AFRICAIT BUTTEKFLIES. 
margin. Fore-wing : a deep fulvous patch occupies, and sometimes 
extends a little below, discoidal cell, and is usually confluent at inser- 
tion of median nervules with a larger patch of the same colour, lying 
between fifth subcostal and third median nervules, and defined, partly 
internally and wholly externally, with a line of dark-brown, the external 
line commencing on costa and slightly inclining inwards as far as first 
median nervule ; black apical ocellus touching outer fulvous, ovate, 
bipupillate with bluish, and with an incomplete, indistinct, yellowish- 
grey ring. Hind-wing : an indistinct dark-brown line near and parallel 
to hind-margin ; touching its inner edge, between first and third median 
nervules, a small fulvous patch, enclosing two small, black, white uni- 
pupillate ocelli, very variable in size, and all but obsolete in some 
examples. Under side. — Costal and apical area of fore-wing indis- 
tinctly, lolioU of hind-wing conspicuously, luliitisli-grey^ hatched with 
short dark-brown lines. Fore-wing: fulvous paler, the two patches 
more completely confluent, but the inner brown edging of the outer 
patch often well-marked; ring of ocellus more distinct and complete. 
Hind-wing : three irregulctr^ transverse, hrown streaks, — one crossing 
cell between middle and base, occasionally rather indistinct, — one 
median, much zigzagged, always strongly marked, — the third regularly 
dentate, near hind-margin, sometimes a good deal obscured by the 
brown hatching, which is densest along hind-margin ; between median 
and outer streak (but nearer the latter) three ocelli, usually with 
suSused brownish clouding, two answering to those on upper side, the 
third between two subcostal nervules ; the latter ocellus often, and all 
three occasionally, quite wanting. 
This species differs from P. vigilans, Trim., in its double fulvous patch, 
much smaller, incompletely-ringed ocellus, and dark-brown line of fore-wing, 
and much smaller fulvous marking of hind-wing ; and beneath, in its triple- 
streaked whiter hind-wing. The antennae have a more slender, gradually- 
formed club, and are much more conspicuously white-ringed, especially beneath. 
The 9 s as a rule are smaller than the ^ s, and the fine dark-brown striolae are 
much closer and more evenly distributed all over the hind-wing. 
Var. a. and $). 
Larger (exp. al., I in. 8-10 lin.) Fore-iuing : ocellus propor- 
tionately smaller. Hind-wing : ocelli larger, but their fulvous rings 
narrow, not confluent. Under side. — Hind-iving : whiter, shining ; 
the first and second transverse brown streaks strongly marked, and so 
clouded with brownish (the first exteriorly and the second interiorly) 
as to form a median irregular fascia, more or less white mesially ; the 
third (submarginal) streak better marked, more dentate, usually inter- 
rupted with white on the nervules; ocelli very much larger (their 
pupil often obsolete) and the suffused brown clouding surrounding 
them much darker and broader ; in some examples, a minute additional 
ocellus close to anal angle. 
Hah. — Eastern South Africa. 
