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SOUTH-AERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
to hind-margin a row of six round spots between nervules, tHe upper 
two generally merged in apical blackish, but quite perceptible ; inner 
margin very thinly edged with blackish. Hind-iuing : arrangement of 
spots very similar to that of fore- wing ; two rounded spots above sub- 
costal nervure before middle ; three in discoidal cell, the outer one at 
extremity ; between cell and inner margin about six spots ; a trans- 
verse sinuous row of eight spots beyond middle, continuous of that 
in fore-wing, from costa to inner margin ; parallel and near to hind- 
margin a row of six rounded spots between nervules, also continuous 
of that in fore-wing ; a blackish hind-marginal border, broader than 
that of fore-wing, and forming rounded projections on ground-colour 
hctwcen nervules. Under side. — Paler, with a slightly glistening sur- 
face ; position and number of spots precisely as above. Fore-wing : 
no basal blackish ; apical blackish limited to a faint and narrow border ; 
hind-marginal border also wanting, but its projections represented by 
separate spots between nervules. Hind-wing : spots on hind-margin 
as in fore- wing. 
Except in being larger, and having the spots and other dark 
markings more strongly developed, the ^ does not differ from the 
The South-African variety is rather larger, darker in ground- 
colour, and with considerably larger spots ; it also almost always 
presents an additional (seventh) spot in the irregular discal row of 
fore- wing on the inner- marginal edge. When I was only acquainted 
with the type-form in the shape of Boisduval's figure of a small and 
faintly -marked example, I was disposed to regard the variety Stictica 
as distinct ; but, since comparing the latter with specimens from 
Madagascar, I consider that it cannot be separated as a species, every 
spot (with the exception noted) corresponding in the two forms. In 
the British Museum I examined two imusually small examples, taken 
by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton beween ISTatal and Delagoa Bay, which 
nearly approach the type-form, especially in the smallness and separate- 
ness of the hind-marginal spots. These examples expand only I in. 
3 lin. ; and two others (with the spots comparatively larger) sent from 
D'Urban by Colonel Bowker in 1879 and 188 1 expand respectively 
I in. 3 lin. and I in. 4 lin. 
A similar individual was sent to me by Mrs. Monteiro from 
Delagoa Bay in 1884 ; but in it the spots are all very small, and that 
below median nervure of fore- wing is wanting ; the abdomen, too, is 
more evenly ochre-yellow, as in the Malagasy type. 
A specimen from Zanzibar in the British Museum, also below the 
usual size, has the fore-wing spots rather small, but the apical fuscous 
very well developed, while the hind-wing spots are tolerably large. 
This butterfly was not uncommon in the neighbourhood of D'Urban, Port 
Natal, from the beginning of February to the beginning of April 1867, but 
it was nowhere numerous. Its flight is very low and weak, and it is scarcely 
ever to be seen away from wooded spots. I met with a few examples in the 
