NYMPHALIN^E. 
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anal angle, is the largest, and has its outer half pale-bkie), — the third 
of more or less rhomboidal spots on nervules, generally united by their 
lateral angles ; fringe as in fore-wing. Under side. — Much 'pcdcr than 
upper side; tlic hind-iving exquisitely marUecl. Fore-wing: base and 
costa whitish, the former with a single blackish dot, the latter with 
numerous short, minute, blackish, transverse striae as far as black spot 
in discoidal cell ; salmon-red much paler than on upper side, particu- 
larly near hind-margin, but next base suffused with a soft pale-carmine 
tint ; a whitish space in cell beyond black spot, and an indistinct 
greyish-white costal cloud beyond cell, which is closed by a broad 
black stria ; white spots as on upper side, but apical black replaced hy 
yelloio-ochreous^ which extends along hind- margin ; two blackish spots 
on hind-margin close to anal angle ; and a more or less distinct row 
of blackish, outwardly white-edged, lunules parallel to hind-margin. 
Hind-wing : varied luith luhite and various shades of yelloiu-ochreous ; 
nervures white ; a conspicuous white space immediately beyond ex- 
tremity of discoidal cell ; and three irregular whitish markings on 
costa, two before and one about middle ; a transverse, ochre-brown, 
white-edged mark in discoidal cell ; and near it, outside cell, a larger 
similar mark, divided into three by nervules, — its lower portion on 
disco-cellular nervule ; near, and parallel to hind-margin, a row of five 
round ocellated spots, situated between nervules from first subcostal to 
first median, and variously coloured, viz., the first, nearest costa, a 
simple, ovate whitish spot, containing an ochreous dot ; the second, 
blackish-centred, with sometimes a small blue pupil, ringed with yellow 
and black ; the third and fourth black, with a large metallic-greenish 
lunule, and ringed with pale yellow ; the fifth larger than the rest, 
with a black, blue-lunuled centre in red, yellow, and black rings; 
beyond these spots a row of narrow violet-blue lunules, the largest 
next anal angle and edged with black internally ; succeeded by a 
parallel white stripe ; the hind-marginal border yellow-ochreous. 
Aberration. — Fore-ioing suffused luith hlacJcish, to the confusion of 
the ordinary markings ; large apical white spot obliterated ; blackish 
border at anal angle broad and safFused. Hind-wing : hlaekish suffu- 
sion over the whole costal region as far as apex ; row of black spots 
faint, whitish-centred; hind-marginal rhomboidal spots not contiguous. 
Under side. — Similarly suffused. Fore-wing : large apical s^oot want- 
ing ; anal angle varied with whitish. Hind- wing : blackish suffusion 
obliterating costal and disco-cellular white markings ; nervures yellow- 
ish-white ; first, third, and fourth ocelli whitish, indistinct, merged in a 
white and greyish band immediately succeeding them. 
Hah.— King William's Town (W. S. M. D'Urban). 
This aberration closely resembles that figured by Herri ch-Schaeffer 
{loc. cit.) 
Another aberrant example, taken by the Rev. H. Wilson near 
Cape Town in 1877, is ^^so very near Herrich-Schaeffer's figure, but 
