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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
(one along costal edge, the other more transverse) ; two hind-marginal 
spots (being the last of the row) conspicuous, black, ringed with brilliant 
bluish- or greenish-silvery, and in a more or less complete circle of orange 
or ochreous-yellow. 
$ Greyisli-brown, shot with vivid blue from bases over discs; the 
white-edged stria closing cell, with the confluent stria beyond it, more or 
less distinctly mar'ked (less apparent in hind- wing) ; submarginal lunular 
stripe and row of spots very indistinct in fore-wing, well marked in 
hind-wing : two black spots of hind-wing larger than in J. Under 
SIDE. — More conspicuously marked, especially submarginal lumdar white 
stripe, which is much broader, particularly in hind-wing, and is some- 
times more or less confluent in parts with outer white edging of discal 
stria. 
In a $ from D'Urban, Natal, taken by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken, 
the dark discal fascia and the row of whitish marks beyond it are both 
enlarged and more continuous than usual, and this is shown with con- 
siderable distinctness even on the upper side. In another, captured at 
King William's Town by Colonel Bowker, the same dark marking in 
both wings is completely confluent with the disco-cellular stria (and 
partly so with the sub-basal one), forming one very broad dark-brownish 
fascia, more broken in the hind-wing.^ 
Larva (European). — " Purplish-red, the narrow oblique lines and 
the dorsal streak darker. On the flowers of Lythrum salicaria!' — W. 
F. Kirby, from Be Villiers and GueiUe, " Tab. Synopt. Lep. d'Eur.^' 
1835. 
If Herrich-Schaeffer's figure of the Variety A. actually represents the 
Hoffmannseggii of Zeller, this form must be regarded as differing from the 
European type-form in its smaller size, and, on the under side, in the sharp 
definition of the markings, the more macular discal stria of the hind-wing, 
and in having the second of the hind-marginal row of white-ringed spots 
no larger than the rest ; whereas in Telicanus it is much larger, rounded, 
and sub-ocelliform. Herrich-Schaeffer gives the under side only, and repre- 
sents no tail on the hind-wing ; but doubtless this appendage had been lost 
in the specimen figured. He does not record the locality ; but while Stau- 
dinger {Cat. Lep. Europ. Faunengeb., 187 1, p. 9) merely says of Hoffmann- 
seggii, "Species est Americana" (Hopffer, loc. cit), while expressing great 
doubt as to the locality of Portugal originally assigned to Zeller's species, 
states that the butterfly is an African variety of Telicanus, and that his 
specimens from Nubia and the Cape are referable to it. 
The South-African specimens (as above described) all more or less approxi- 
mate to the West- African Variety B. named Pulchra by the Rev. R. P. 
Murray ; but in none of the $ s that I have seen is there so much white 
on the upper side as shown in his fig. 8. Mr. Murray notes the " constant 
smaller size" of the specimens; but the measurements he gives, viz., "(^ 
i" : ? 1" 2'";' of three ^ and two $ examples, are not 
(except in the case of the smallest $ ) below the average size. 
^ An interesting specimen, exhibiting the conjunction of the features of both sexes in a 
.'ingle individual, was presented to me in 1883 by Mr. W. Billinghurst, who took it near 
Grahamstown. In this example the wings on the right side are of the (5 coloration on the 
upper side, while those on the left side are of the 9 coloration and pattern. 
