3H 
SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
liind-marginal spots more conspicaous than in Under side. — 
Fale Iroivnisli-grey tinged with ferruginous ; discal area with a lilacine 
gloss ; the white markings as on upper side, but duller ; other mark- 
ings in basal area as in J ; common discal brown streak better marked. 
One ^ specimen from the Knysna District of the Cape Colony has 
the under side almost as pale as the iqjper side^ with all the streaks 
(except the common discal one) better defined. 
Var. a. 
Ux2jI. al., ($) I in. 1 1 lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. ; (?) 2 in. 3-7 lin. 
J Paler ; in fore-wing the markings in and about discoidal cell 
wanting^ as well as all but the lowest portion of the inner sub- 
marginal lunulate streak ; in hind-wing the same streak is often 
obsolete in its middle portion. Under side. — Paler (like the Knysna 
specimen just mentioned, but with the common discal hrown streak 
strongly marked)^ with all the markings more distinct; in some 
examples the darker parts in basal half, as well as a hind-marginal 
suffusion, are warm-ferruginous. 
$ Transverse white hand broader, especially in hind-iving ; sub- 
marginal blackish spots considerably larger and more distinct. Fore- 
luing : disco -cellular white stria attenuated, more angulated; costal 
white stria beyond cell distinctly broken into three spots and continued 
inferiorly by two more or less distinct small spots, between third and 
first median nervules, immediately before transverse band. Under 
side. — Markings more distinct; colouring varying from that nearly 
resembling the type-form to almost general warm-ferruginous, — inter- 
mediate examples occurring only variegated with ferruginous. 
Aberrant $ s of this large variety occur having the common trans- 
verse band ochrc-ycllow instead of white. In one specimen, taken by 
Colonel Bowker in Kaffraria, the yellow band is much obscured and 
partly obliterated by dull-brownish suflfasion. 
This smallest of the genus Harma is allied to H, Coenis, Dru., from West 
Africa, but very much less in size. The is distinguished also by the fore- 
wings being more produced apically, and the hind- wings much more at anal 
angle ; by the possession of orange-ochreous hind-marginal spots ; and (on the 
under side) by the absence of the greenish tint so pronounced in Coenis, and by 
the common transverse brown streak not being nearly so straight. The 9 of 
Coenis appears to be Althcea, Cram., and from this the ? Alcimeda differs in 
possessing a conspicuous disco-cellular white mark ; in presenting, immediately 
beyond common white band, a series of small white spots instead of one of 
large suffused sub-hastate marks, and in having bright orange-ochreous hind- 
marginal spots. ^ 
I have regarded as the type-form the smaller race found in the south of the 
Cape Colony, because Godart describes the 9 as being only about two inches 
in expanse of wings. The ^ belonging to this is that figured by Westwood 
1 I have not seen any specimens of H. Amphiceda, Cram. {Pap. Exot. , ii. t. cxlvi. ff. d, 
e), but, from the figure, it seems in size and pattern to be nearly related to H. Alcimeda, 
var., but has in both wings the submarginal markings very much darker and much more 
sharply dentated. Its locality is given as the Coast of Guinea. 
