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the upper ; and two, smaller than the two central ones, still more 
obliquely placed at outer end of cell, the lower being on second disco- 
cellular nervule ; two small black spots just below cell, one at base, 
immediately preceded by a white dot, the other about as far from base 
as second cellular spot ; a bluish-bronzy gloss along costa and over 
basal and inner- marginal region, strongest on inner-marginal edge. 
Hind-wing : a rather broad, central, transverse band, rather straight, 
and of even width except near costa, where it is rather narrowed and 
obscured ; a good-sized black spot at base, marked (on origin of median 
nervure) with a whitish dot, and surmounted towards costa by a whitish 
spot ; two black spots obliquely placed in discoidal cell near base ; 
two above cell, one on each side of first subcostal nervule ; one imme- 
diately below cell, close to base ; one (small and thin) on the almost 
atrophied nervule closing cell ; and one (minute) just outside cell above 
the radial nervule ; the two spots last mentioned are within the white 
transverse band. In both wings inter-nervular black rays extend from 
hind-marginal edge to exterior of white band, in Idnd-iving piercing 
the band to some depth. Under side. — Much 'pcder ; outer halves of 
wings ochreous-grey ; spots near base as on upper side, but much more 
conspicuous ; pale bands with less distinct outline, that of hind- wing 
narrower ; in each wing an additional white spot at origin of costa. 
Fore-ioing : inner-marginal whitish space more apparent, but still ill- 
defined ; a faint basal tinge of fulvous below cell. Hind-wing : all the 
basal ground-colour before transverse band fcrrnginous-fidvous^ with a 
faint violaceous gloss. 
Aidcnnoi black ; j^^^^pi black above, laterally and beneath yellow ; 
head, thorax, and base, broad dorsal line, and segmental incisions of 
abdomen black. Head with six white spots (two on front, two on 
summit, and tAvo behind the eyes) ; collar with two ; thorax with 
eight ; base of abdomen with two ; breast with one central white spot, 
and two yellowish spots on each side ; legs brown, with a white spot at 
base of each femur, except first aborted pair, which are yellowish. 
Abdomen with sides and under-surface ochre-yellow. 
The species is nearly allied to P. Hiree, Drury. (See Mr. Hewit- 
son s figure of the typical form of the $ Hiree (Eui^ytus, Clerck), from 
Calabar.^) It may, however, be readily distinguished from the latter 
by the absence in the fore-wings of the conspicuous white band which 
in the $ Hiree extends from the inner margin towards the subapical 
band ; and by the fuscous base of the hind-iuings, which in the $ Hiree 
is occupied by the white of the band. In P. imitator the subapical 
band of the fore-wings is much longer and narrower, and the second 
and third cellular spots are in all the wings nearer to the base. 
The above description was made from the only two specimens (both ? ) 
then known to me. I have since received from Colonel liowker the follow- 
ing Natalian examples, viz., a 9 in 1878, whose locality was not recorded, it 
^ Exot. Butt., iv. Diadeina, iii. f, 11 (Part 66, April 1S6S). 
