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SOUTH AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
blackish, distinct ; blue suffusion filling cell and extending tliinly 
below and beyond it over median nervules. Under side. — Markings 
generally larger than in ^, especially the disco-cellular lunules, the 
hind-marginal spots, and in fore-wing the discal fascia. Fore-wing : a 
faint brownish suffusion basally. 
In a singular aberration of the $ taken in Natal by Colonel Bowker, 
the upper side has no white, but only a very slightly paler discal cloud 
on the dusky-brownish general ground-colour ; and with the exception 
of the indistinct terminal disco-cellular lunules, there are no dark mark- 
ings. On the under side the same lunules are conspicuous, but there 
are no discal fascia or spots ; the submarginal brown streak is, however, 
greatly widened and suffused, and there is also a brown suffusion along 
the hind-margin itself, so that only an irregular lunulate white streak 
remains between it and the submarginal streak. In the fore-wing the 
basal brown sufiusion is much darker than usual ; and in the hind- 
wing the short basal streak is confluent with the first spot of the 
sub-basal row, of which row the third and fourth spots are wholly 
wanting. 
This species is nearly allied to L. Moriqua, Wallengr., but con- 
siderably larger. On the upper side the colouring of the $ is very 
like that of the $ Moriqua, but the spots of the under side are repre- 
sented more apparently, and the much more slender hind-marginal 
edging line is like that of the ^ Jesous, Guer. ; while the colouring 
and pattern of the $ are widely different from those of the $ Moriqua 
and ^ Jeso2ts, — closely resembling, indeed, the upper side of the $ 
Hintza, Trim. On the under side both sexes approximate Moriqua, 
the chief distinctions being the whiter ground generally, the different 
colour, form, and extent of the discal fascia of the fore-wing, and, in 
the same wing, the great prolongation costally of the longitudinal 
stripe ; and, in the hind-wing, the totally different respective sizes and 
positions of the black spots of the discal row. The fore-wings are 
unusually long, not produced apically, but rather prominent subapi- 
cally ; and the hind-wings are also longer and with a straighter costa 
than in the allied species. In this respect, and in a much less degree 
as regards some of the principal under-side markings, Natalensis ex- 
hibits some indications of alliance to the beautiful West- African L. Isis 
(Drury), in which the $ has white discs on the upper side. 
I captured a of this butterfly at Hermansburg, Natal, in March 1867, 
and regarded it as possibly a variety of L. Moriqua. In 1869 a ? was sent 
from Natal, without any note of locality, by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken ; and in 
187 1 I noted two $ s and a $ ticketed " Port Natal " in the British Museum 
Collection. The more recent receipt of fine specimens of both sexes from 
Mr. J. M. Hutchinson, of Estcourt, Natal, has enabled me satisfactorily to 
describe the insect ; but I have no notes as to its special haunts or habits. 
A few examples from other parts of Natal have also reached me ; and in 1881 
I examined a $ from Delagoa Bay in the Hewitson Collection, j 
