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extending far below or beyond median nervure. With one exception 
— a $ — the five examples (3 $ 2 $ s) I have examined presenting 
this variation are unusually small. 
Var. a ($ and 
Hx^). al, Q) 3 in. ; (?) 3 in. 6 lin. 
Fore-wing : tivo spots of median oblique roio much enlarged (especially 
that in discoidal cell), almost touching. Hind-iving : basal patch iri- 
descent-white, only slightly tinged with ochreous-yellow on its edge. 
Under side. — In ^ with a slightly rufous tinge in the brown portions. 
Hab.—$, Natal (? local.) ; D'Urban {J. H. Boivker). 
This Euralia is the Southern representative of E. dubia (Palis, de Beau v.) 
of Western Africa. It differs with apparent constancy in the following parti- 
culars, viz., in the fore-wing : (i) the two spots of the median oblique row are 
much smaller and far apart ; (2) the subapical oblique white band is narrower, 
and divided into three quite distinctly separate spots ; (3) the white spots of 
the submarginal row are smaller ; (4) the ochreous scaling or suffusion on the 
inner margin is altogether wanting ; and (5) the white spot near base, in dis- 
coidal cell, is obsolete ; while in the hind-wing (6) the basal patch is broader 
and uniformly yellow-ochreous. The under side differs correspondingly, and 
(7) the white spots at the bases of the wings are smaller. 
The small Variety A. above characterised decidedly inclines in the direction 
of E. dubia, as far as the enlarged median spots of the fore-wing and the white 
patch of the hind-wing are concerned, but in other respects retains the distinc- 
tive features of E. mima.^ 
A very fine taken at D'Urban by Colonel Bowker in March 1879, is 
remarkable for possessing a gloss of indigo-blue over the black ground in the 
apical half of the fore-wings, and also for having all the spots in those wings 
very distinctly ringed with bluish on the upper as well as on the under side. 
E. mima was very rare on the coast of ISTatal in the summer of 1867, and 
I only met with two specimens — one at D'Urban and the other near Yerulam, 
both during February. On each occasion I at first mistook the butterfly for 
Amauris Echeria, until I noticed its more active flight. The late Mr. M. J. 
M'Ken and Colonel Bowker, during their long residence in the Colony, often 
took specimens, and about twenty examples have been received from them. 
Among the latter gentleman's captures was a pair taken in copula in the Park, 
D'Urban, on the nth February 1881. These individuals were unusually 
small — the expanding only 2 in. 11 lin., and the $ 3 in. 4 lin. — and much 
alike, both presenting the variation above mentioned, viz., the much-reduced 
yellow patch of the hind-wing, and having also the spots of the fore-wing 
smaller and less distinct than usual, especially in the ^ . This close resem- 
blance of the paired sexes is of interest, seeing that (as noted under ^. Wahlbergi) 
the ^ Mima has on one occasion been taken in copidd with the $ Wahlbergi. 
Localities of Eitralia mima. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Little Umhlanga {H. C. Harford). 
Verulam. 
^ This small variety appears to approach very closely E. (" Panopea ") Drucei, Butler, 
from Madagascar (to judge from the description and figure in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, 
p. 426, pi. vi. f. 3), differing chiefly in the less regular macular bars of the fore-wing, and in 
the smaller and less ochre-tinged patch of the hind-vi^ing. 
