SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
close to base ; another at base below median nervure ; a fourth on 
inner margin near base ; an additional (eighth) spot at inner-marginal 
end of discal row ; hind-marginal border enclosing seven large sub- 
lunulate spots of the creamy-yellowish ground-colour ; the dull- pink 
preceding it in the form of broad inter-nervnlar discal rays. 
$ Varying from dullyale reddisli-broiun to didl dark greyisli-hrown ; 
spots larger and dark borders broader in parts; fore-wing luitli an 
oblique subapical luhite bar. Fore-wing : blackish border much broader 
at apex ; white bar variable in definition and width, but widest and 
most conspicuous in the darker individuals, immediately succeeding' 
oblique row of black spots, not extending below second median 
nervule. Hind-wing : hind-marginal border usually broader through- 
out, sometimes enclosing a row of seven very indistinct spots of the 
ground-colour. Under side. — Paler than in J. Fore-wing : apical 
pale-yellowish extending to subapical white bar, which is not nearly 
so clearly defined as on upper side. Hind.-iuing : pink variegation 
usually less pronounced, and in the darker individuals all but obsolete. 
A small ^, taken by Mr. W. Morant at Avoca, on the coast of 
Natal, has on hind-wings a limited roundish space of white between the 
median nervure and its second nervule and the inner margin. 
A small taken by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton in Swaziland, is 
very near the figure of Guerin's type, having the apical region of fore- 
wing paler, and the discal region of hind-wing redder than the rest of 
the wing ; and on the under side the inter-nervular fulvous and pink 
rays very strongly marked. 
Var. a. {Nelnska, Oberthlir). 
J Fore-wing : apical border considerably broader ; subapical inter- 
nervular black rays wanting. Under side. — Pale reddish ground- 
colour almost uniform throughout. $ Like the duskier individuals of 
the typical Doublcdagi, but in the fore-wing only one small spot of the 
subapical oblique row perceptible, and the white bar altogether wanting, 
Hab. — Zanzibar. 
Var. B. {Axi7ia, Westw.) 
$ Exp. al., I in. 8-ioJ lin. 
Brighter in colour, with a tinge of pink in hind-wing. Fore-wing : 
two small spots near posterior angle wanting ; spot in middle of cell 
larger ; below the subapical inter-nervular streaks usually a third, and 
sometimes also a fourth similar shorter streak. Hind-iuing : third spot 
(from costa) of discal row wanting. 
$ Exp. ah, I in. 7-8 1 lin. 
Paler ; differences of spots as in ^, except that one specimen 
possesses the third spot in hind-wing row. Fore-iving : subapical white 
bar very narrow, externally ill-defined ; inter-nervular rays increased 
to six, the last (near posterior angle) a double streak. 
One taken on the Marico Iliver by Mr. F. C. Selous, has nearly 
all the disc of the hind- wings suffused with white. 
