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colour ; submarginal row of seven small fuscous spots ; a lifcfcle before 
it, near costa, a curved row of three black dots. Hi)id-wing: three 
transverse thin brownish-rufous strige, the first and second (respectively 
before and about middle) very irregular and interrupted, the third 
(near hind-margin) regular and lunulated ; between the second and 
third striae a row of seven contigaoas ocelli, centred with a black and 
yellow dot, and ringed with brownish rufous ; of these, the middle 
(fourth) one is smallest and more indistinct than the rest ; a small 
brownish-rufous striola at extremity of discoidal cell ; between it and 
the first ocellus some slight fascous irroration. 
This species is nearly allied to both C. natalensis^ Boisd., and C. 
madagascar lends, Boisd. From the former it differs, on the upper 
side, in its very much darker colouring and exceedingly ill-defined 
marking, wanting alike the warm yellow-ochreous ground-colour in 
both wings, and the black spots and lunules in the hind- wings ; while 
on the under side it is cream-colour, with rufous markings, instead of 
hoary, clouded with fuscous-grey and with fuscous markings ; and the 
fore-wing altogether wants the suff'tised spot near posterior angle, so 
conspicuous in C. natalcmis. 
From G. viadagascariensis it diverges almost similarly, as regards 
the upper side, in its want of warm ochreous colouring ; and its vague 
fuscous-brown space (enclosing an ochreous spot) is altogether different 
from the broad dark apical area, which in 0. madagascariensis is only 
varied by the bar of three small indistinct ochreous spots from costa, 
not far from apex. On the under side, 0. Morantii has none of the 
hoary colouring of the Malagasy species, and all its striae and ocelli 
are much more distinct, besides being rufous instead of dull grey ; 
while in the hind- wing the central and submarginal striee are more 
irregular and dentated. 
The only example of this insect that I have met with is the female above 
described, which was taken at Pinetown (Xatal) in April or May 1869, by 
Mr. Walter Morant, an able observer and collector, after whom I have named 
the species. Mr. Morant wrote that the specimen in question settled on the 
trunks of trees, with closed wings, in the same manner as C. natalensis^ and 
that he believed he had seen, if not taken, a male nearly resembling it.^ 
1 Colonel Bowker has since taken three examples near Pinetown, viz., a <5 on 26th July 
1884, and two ? s in July and December 18S4 respectively. The ? s are on the upper side 
of a rather warmer, more rufous tint, with the spots about the fuscous cloud of the fore-wing 
of a deeper ochre-yellow ; and one of them expands 2 in. 4 lin. The ^ is much smaller, 
expanding only I in. 1 1 lin. ; the fore-wings are more produced apically, and the upper 
side generally appears to be unicolorous dull ochreous-brown of the same tint as prevails in 
the 9 discovered by Mr. Morant, with the exception of a small paler marking in fore-wing 
midway between discoidal cell and apex, and in hind- wing between discoidal cell and hind- 
margin (these markings are in this specimen much enlarged and blurred in the left-hand 
wings). The under side does not differ from that of tlie ? except in the markings generally 
being less clearly defined. 
Colonel Bowker wrote that the few specimens of this insect he met with flew higher than 
either Natalensis or Boisduvali, and that the $ just described fluttered down from a tree 
and settled on a stone in the bed of the Umbilo. 
