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subcostal nervure more strongly clouded with red. Under side. — i 
As in ^ ; but subapical bar of fore-wing pure white, rather wider than l 
on upper side (its edges somewhat suffused), occasionally less distinctly ; 
prolonged as far as first median nervule. 
In a ^ captured by Colonel Bowker at Inchanga, Natal, the sub- 
apical bar of the fore-wing is of the same ochre-red as the rest of the 
markings on the upper side. 
The red of the hind-wings is in both sexes variable in extent, 
sometimes extending to hind-margin near anal angle, and in the 
^ occasionally covering all the wing, except some narrow fuscous 
clouding towards apex. 
Var. A. ($ and $). 
$ Bed of both ivings reijlaced hy the same ]3cd<i-y'il^ow as that of 
suhapical har of fore-wing. Fore-wing : inner-marginal patch much 
smaller, only occupying middle portion of inner margin, and rarely 
rising above fiirst median nervule. Hind-iving : basal blackish much 
more developed, sometimes quite broad ; hind-marginal border con- 
stantly wider and more even throughout. Under side, — Fore-wing : j 
inner-marginal patch and subapical bar pale-yellowish. Hind-iuing : 
basal spots larger, rounder ; central area occupied by a broad, ill- 
defined, dusky-yellowish band ; base tinged with brownish-ochreous. ' 
$ Like $, hut suhapical har of fore-wing {and sometimes all the hroad 
marhings) pure white. Fore-wing : inner-marginal patch smaller, its j 
edges suffused. 
It is the ^ of this variety which is figured by Hewitson 
fig. I 2) as that of the red-marked ^ ; but (as described above) there j 
is a red- marked ^, which much more closely agrees with his type 
of the ^, and which is figured as " Yar. B." in my work above quoted. 
In a few aberrant examples (J and three % s) of this variety the 
markings are reduced in size, the inner-marginal patch of the fore- 
wing especially being almost obsolete. In the $ the markings are 
almost, and in the % s quite white. In both sexes, on the under side 
of the hind-wing there is a faintly indicated row of four inter-nervular 
fuscous dots just beyond discoidal cell. (These examples are respec- 
tively from King William's Town, the Coast of Natal, and St. Lucia Bay.) 
Larva. — About i \ inches long. Pale ochreous-brown ; each 
segment (except head and segment next to it) banded transversely 
and centrally with a black streak edged on both sides with a pale- 
yellow streak. A lateral stripe of the same pale-yellow. Head black. 
Second, twelfth, and thirteenth segments each with two black spines ; 
third and fourth segments each with two pairs of black spines ; each 
of the remaining segments with four black spines springing from 
central black streak, and two lateral pale-yellow spines. On a species 
of Fleurya, in February and March. 
Plate I. fig. 2. 
