266 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. | 
$ Paler, duller ; the costal Uach of fore-iolng and the hasal Uach of 
hind-wing replaced hij suffused fuscous, except the strice and spots respec- 
tively. Fore-iuing : submarginal band united to outermost costal stria ' 
or dentation, so that in all eight instead of six spots of the ground- 
colour are enclosed ; inner-marginal marking much attenuated. Hind- 
wing : a fuscous streak a little before submarginal band and united to 
it by blackish on the nervules so as to enclose seven small spots of the 
ground-colour. Under side. — As in 
Var. a. (Achelo'ia, Wallengr.) 
J Barker, more inclined to rufous. Fore-wing : costal Uach broader, 
especially its doiuniuard ray beyond discoidcd cell, which is very wide and 
sharply dentated externally, the outermost dentation usually joining, 
or almost joining, the top of submarginal band on second radial ner- 
vule ; ground-colour beyond the wide downward ray extends all but to 
costal edge, so as to isolate subapical extremity of costal band ; lower 
part of submarginal band much thickened at posterior angle, so as 
almost to obliterate the lowest enclosed spot of the ground-colour. 
Rind-wing : no spots before middle ; submarginal band and hind-marginal 
border more developed, and united by wider nervular rays, so that spots 
of ground-colour are smaller. Under side. — Like that of typical 
form, but even more variable, the hind-wing and apex of fore-iving being 
often of a pale creamy-yellowish, in which the luhitish or creamy bands 
are indistinguishable, but all the black markings very conspicuous; 
while in others every grade of deepening coloration is found as far as 
the same deep-ferruginous as the typical form sometimes exhibits, or 
even rather darker. 
$ Differs quite in correspondence with the characters just given, 
but is very commonly duller and more suffused in markings than the 
typical ^. 
[Plate Y. fig. 4 (?). 
Pupa. — Dull greenish-grey, antennas-cases pale-yellowish. Attached 
to middle of a leaf. 
Description of a living specimen sent to me from D' Urban, Natal, 
by Colonel Bowker, and received on 9th December 1878. The imago 
emerged the next day, so in all probability the colour of the pupa was 
duller than at an earlier date ; it was a of the Achelo'ia variety that 
emerged. 
Wallengren's Illithya and Achelo'ia both belong to the variety just described, 
as I have ascertained from drawings of his types which Mr. W. F. Kirby 
showed me in 1881 : the former being an example of the medium under-side 
coloration, and the latter one of the deep-ferruginous hue. The differences 
})ointed out enable nie to distinguish the variety from the typical form, but I 
think it best not to separate it as a species, for the present at any rate, as I 
liave seen so few Hypanis specimens from Tropical Africa, and both forms are 
so extremely variable both in size and marking. It is Ilithyia proper which 
(in a smaller form with thinner black markings) extends to Ceylon and India ; 
