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ill-defined whitish lunuleSj between second median nervule and anal 
angle ; an indistinct fuscous lunule at extremity of discoidal cell ; 
inner-marginal fold grey, clouded with whitish ; tails black, with white 
tips and edges. Cilia of fore-wing fuscous-grey mixed with white, 
the latter predominating near anal angle; of hind-wing white, with 
small black marks at extremities of nervules. Under side. — White ^ 
with ochreous- and rufous-hroiun irregular transverse stria3 ; in each 
wing, commencing on costa, a stria before middle, an elongate sub- 
lunulate mark closing discoidal cell, a broad stria beyond middle, a 
snbmarginal linear streak, and a hind-marginal linear edging. Fore- 
wing: close to base, a short broad transverse marking, between sub- 
costal and submedian nervures ; outer transverse stria more irregular 
and much dentate on both edges. Hind-iving : costa at base narrowly 
edged with brownish-ochreous ; inner transverse stria much narrower 
than in fore-wing ; both striae very acutely angulated on submedian 
nervure, and thence diverted, the inner quite, the outer very nearly, to 
base ; sub-marginal linear streak adjoins two black spots (the lower 
larger) close to costa, is there, as well as on submedian nervure, inter- 
rupted, and from the latter point diverted, edging inner margin to 
before middle ; black spots at and near anal angle inwardly scaled with 
bluish-silvery — the middle one often obsolete, and represented by some 
fuscous and bluish-silvery scales. 
$ Similar ; the blue duller and its area more restricted ; all the 
white markings larger and almost wholly free from any blue suffusion, 
especially in hind-wing. Under side. — As in ^, but the strige (espe- 
cially the sub-marginal and hind-marginal linear ones) of a decidedly 
clearer, more fulvous tint. 
Aberration (or Variety ?). 
A $ from Springbokfontein, in Little Namaqualand, has in the 
fore-wing the white mark just beyond disco-cellular lunule obsolete, 
the two upper white spots of discal row quadrate, and the third and 
fourth entirely wanting ; while in the hind-wing the white markings 
are even fainter than is usual in the and the sub-marginal lunulate 
blackish streak is obsolete. On the under side the principal strise are 
greatly widened and of a duller brown ; the space between the sub- 
marginal and hind -marginal streaks is filled with paler-brown mixed 
with grey, and in the hind-wing the space before middle is similarly 
but more thinly obscured. (In the South-African Museum, presented 
by Mr. G. A. Keynolds, who took the specimen at Matje's Kloof in 
i873-y 
^ In 1867 I made a note of an apparent aberration of /. Bowlceri in the remains of the 
Burchell Collection at the Oxford Museum, which seems closely to resemble that described 
in the text. In Burchell's MS. list, kindly lent to me by Professor Westwood, I found the 
locality of this specimen, which was taken in the year 1814, given as " Chue Spring, on 
Maadje Mountains ; lat. 26° 18' li", long, about 24°," — in the territory now known as 
Bechuanaland. 
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