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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
but especially in fore-wing, indistinct traces of a submarginal row 
of small dull- whitish spots ; cilia with minute inter-nervular white 
spots. Under side. — Ground-colour pale oclireous-brown, except discal 
area of fore-wing, which is brownish-black. Fore-iuing : a small white 
spot at origin of subcostal and median nervures ; a fulvous-ochreous 
streak along costa for a little distance from base ; a longitudinal black 
ray in discoidal cell, at extremity joining the discal black ; white band 
and spots larger than on upper side, especially spot at apex, which is 
widely suffused inwardly ; sometimes a third spot, narrower and usually 
much smaller than the other two, at lower end of subapical bar ; four 
or five small white spots in a submarginal row between third median 
nervule and anal angle. Hind-iving : base, as far as inner edge of 
central band, dull fulvous-ochreous, marked with eight black spots, 
viz., one on costa at base, one on each side of precostal nervure, three 
in discoidal cell, and one on each side of first subcostal nervule ; four 
of these are on the edge of central band, which is broader than on 
upper side ; a more or less complete submarginal row of small white 
spots arranged in pairs between nervule s (wanting in one example) ; 
inter-nervular rays more conspicuous than on upper side. 
Head and thorax black ; head with a large white spot in front 
and four small ones on summit, — the palpi black above, with white 
black- edged sides ; thorax with four small white spots on each side 
above, and seven large ones on each side beneath. Abdomen black 
above, with a row of five small white spots on each side ; creamy 
beneath. 
$ Ground-colour hrowncr tlicui in ^ ; all the markings of forc-iving 
smaller, more yellowish, and more or less obscured by some greyish 
scaling ; band of hind-wing pale ochreous-yellow ; submarginal row of 
small whitish spots much better marked m both wings, but especially 
in hind- wing. Fore-wing : apical white spot wanting, but adjacent 
cilia white as in Under side. — Ochreous-brown duller than in $. 
Fore-iving : bands yellower, narrower, more distinctly macular ; basal 
fulvous-ochreous streak and apical white spot wanting. Hind-wing : 
basal colouring duller, browner. 
Apical portions of fore- wings much more elongated in the 
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This species is closely allied to P. Lucretia (Cram.), but, as far as the male 
sex is concerned (I have not seen the 9 Lucretia), presents the following dif- 
ferences, viz. : In fore-wing (i) the two spots of subapical bar are more or less | 
quadrate, and do not radiate towards hind-margin ; (2) the inner-marginal patch | 
is yellower and much smaller; (3) the white costal edging and apical spot are 
characters wanting in Lucretia ; while in hind-wing (4) the band is yellowish 
and much broader. On the under side, in fore-wing (5) the whitish scaling in I 
discoidal cell and the conspicuous white radiation from subapical bar are both ! 
wanting; (6) the median band is wider; (7) the submarginal spots are smaller 
and fewer ; while in hind-wing (8) the basal ochreons is broader ; (9) the sub- 
marginal spots are smaller; and (10) the inter-nervular streaks fainter. The 
abdominal white spots are smaller than in Lucretia. 
