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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
some very indistinct indications of a submarginal row of fuscous spots. 
Hind-wing : a very indistinct (often all but obsolete) small fuscous 
hind-marginal spot between first and second median nervules ; in some 
of tbe paler examples faint indications of two or three similar, exter- 
nally finely whitish-edged spots along lower hind-margin. Under 
SIDE. — Broivnish-grey {or greyish-hrown in the darker specimens) with 
white-edged darker markings^ in arrangement and character like those of 
Ortygia^ Trimen. Fore-wing: terminal disco-cellular mark not very 
broad, reniform ; discal row more or less curved inward to first median 
nervule, and then outward at its extremity, — commencing with a minute 
spot on costa ; occasionally the third and fourth spots of this row, or 
one of them, elongated inward so as to touch disco-cellular spot ; others 
of the row sometimes much diminished or wanting altogether ; in one 
specimen the lowest spot but one is prolonged inward ; inner sub- 
marginal row of white lunules as in Ortygia, but occasionally indistinct ; 
outer row forming with hind-marginal white line rings, whose outer 
edges (opposite the white parts of the cilia) are usually widened and 
conspicuous, much as in Astcris, Godt. Hind-iuing : short basal streak, 
usually well develojDed ; three round, black, white-ringed spots in sub- 
basal row ; two similar spots respectively at beginning and end of 
discal row, but separate from it ; second spot of same row small, shaped 
(and sometimes coloured) like the first ; fourth spot almost always 
(third spot more rarely) confluent with terminal disco-cellular marking ; 
inner row of acutely sagittiform white lunules usually well developed ; 
outer one forming with white hind-marginal line larger, and usually 
more complete rings than in fore-wing ; hind-marginal black spot small, 
obscure, its bluish- silvery dots and yellow ring very faint or obsolete. 
^ Similar, and equally variable in tint of brown. Fore-ioing : in 
a few of the largest and darkest examples, on disc, between second 
median nervule and submedian nervure, the faint imperfect bluish 
linear outline of two elongate darker spots like those sometimes found 
in Asieris. Hind-iuing : hind-marginal fuscous spot often more dis- 
tinct, — in two of the larger specimens rather conspicuously blue-centred 
and very faintly yellow-edged inwardly, and in another slightly blue- 
dusted and faintly bluish-edged inwardly. Under side. — As in ^, but 
discal row in fore-wing more often imperfect or deficient in parts ; 
outer submarginal row of lunules sometimes very faintly marked, 
while inner row is occasionally suff*used in both wings ; and sub-basal 
row in hind-wing sometimes with four instead of three spots, — the 
additional one being situated just below the second spot. Hind-wing : 
often some whitish suffused scaling near base. 
This species is widely spread in South Africa ; it is readily recognised by 
both sexes being of the same uniform brown on the upper side, and by its 
being rather smaller in the 9 > and much smaller in the $ , than the nearly 
related Ortygia and Asteris. The darkest (and also the largest) examples I 
have seen are found in the Cape Peninsula, but some of these have a rufous 
