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markings distinct, ivith lodl-defincd ivhite edges. Fore-uing : no sub- 
basal spots ; terminal disco-cellular lunule scarcely darker than ground- 
colour ; discal row of six black spots, only slightly curved superiorly, 
the first and fifth spots partly before the rest ; two submarginal rows 
of almost straight white lunulate marks ; a white hind-marginal line 
immediately succeeded by a thin terminal black one. Hind-wing : 
sub-basal row of four round black spots ; terminal disco- cellular 
lunule, and all the spots of irregular discal row except the first and 
last (eighth) — costal and inner-marginal respectively, which are black, 
— of the ground colour ; lunules of two submarginal rows more acute 
than in fore-wing, those of outer row forming imperfect rings with 
hind-marginal white line ; three hind-marginal black spots marked 
outwardly with a semicircle of brilliant greenish-golden, the orange 
lunules preceding them usually well- developed ; usually the nucleus of 
a fourth spot in the form of greenish-golden scales, between third 
median nervule and radial nervule. 
^ Similar, usually darker. Hind-iving : hind-marginal black spots 
and adjacent orange-yellow lunules larger, the lowest lunule better 
developed, and rarely a fourth small lunule just above third median 
nervule; in some European examples a row of small white lunules 
precedes the orange ones. Under side. — As in ^J, but all the mark- 
ings better developed, especially (in hind-wing) the hind-marginal spots 
and adjacent orange lunules. 
On the upper side this species, especially its $ , has much the appearance 
of the $ L. Mahallokooena, Wallengr., but the row of from three to five 
jewelled spots on the under side of tlie hind-wings constitutes an unmistake- 
able distinction in Trochilus. The Rev. K. P. Murray {loc, cit.) has 
separated a South- African example, under the species name of L. parva, 
distinguishing the new form from Trochilus " on account of its much smaller 
size, and also from its presenting in both wings a series of white markings 
immediately beyond the discal row of spots." But I find that not only is an 
expanse of eight lines (which is that given by Mr. Murray for L. jjarva) the 
minimum size in South- African specimens of the ^ , but that European 
examples of Trochilus are often no larger, and sometimes smaller (seven 
lines) ; and indeed, on the whole, taking a series of both sexes, the South- 
African insect appears to be decidedly the larger of the two. The second 
distinction is not to be found in any South- African specimen that I have 
seen, the inner of the two ordinary submarginal rows of white lunules 
succeeding the discal spots, as in typical Trochilus, in every case. 
When comparing South- African with Northern specimens in 1881, I 
thought, at first, that I had discovered a difference in the former as regards 
both the smaller number of jewelled spots (three instead of four or five) and 
the better developed adjoining orange lunules, but I found that the Northern 
examples varied much in these very , particulars, — two Egyptian ones not 
differing from South-African individuals in which those characters are best 
expressed. 
An aberration from the White Nile, in the Hewitson Collection of 
the British Museum, has an orange-yellow bar in the fore-wings near the 
posterior angle. 
The only example that I met with in Natal was flitting about grass in a 
valley of the Great Noodsberg, on the i8th March 1867. The species has 
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