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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
hoary towards base ; sexual badge near base conspicuous, consisting of 
a fuscous spot in a shining grey ring. Under side. — Soft pale-grey^ 
with thin feiTuginous-oclireoiis strice ; in both wings a short stria closing 
discoidal cell, and two long ones beyond middle, of which the inner is 
continuous and well defined, the outer sub-lunulate and rather faintly 
marked ; hctween these two strice some white suffusion^ in fore-wing only 
towards inner margin, but in hind-iving from costa to inner margin. 
Hind-wing : before middle a third stria, irregular and angulated, well 
defined, extending from precostal to submedian nervure ; first stria 
beyond middle very irregular, almost meeting the outer one between 
first median nervule and submedian nervure, where it is sharply deflected ; 
a little before its inner-marginal extremity a small detached marking of 
the same ferruginous-ochreous ; between the two hind-marginal spots 
some rather conspicuous greenish-silvery scaling. 
$ Very similar to $ ; the blue scarcely didler ; the fuscous bordering 
rather darker, and in parts broader or narrower. Fore-wing: costal 
grey less pronounced, mixed with fuscous ; apical border not so wide, 
not reaching to extremity of cell ; hind-marginal border rather wider, 
especially at anal angle. Hind-iving : costal and apical border darker 
and considerably broader; a sub-marginal and hind-marginal row of 
faintly marked fuscous spots, the latter row in line with the usual three 
black spots, which are more strongly marked than in the Under 
SIDE. — Quite as in ^, but slightly duller in tint, inclining to brownish, 
and wdth the white clouding beyond middle less distinct. 
This species should be placed next to /. Ceres (Hewits.) On the 
under side it differs from that species in being wholly devoid of any 
rufous tinge or brown basal clouding ; in having the transverse striae 
beyond middle more regular and closer together; in wanting altogether 
the conspicuous lunular streak iii the discoidal cell of the fore-wings ; 
in possessing a continuous transverse stria before the middle of the 
hind- wings, instead of one broken into six or seven portions ; and in 
wanting the conspicuous orange lunule which adjoins the upper hind- 
marginal spot of the hind- wings. 
' Mr. Henry I. Atherstone sent me two females of this butterfly as long 
ago as the end of 1863, having taken them at Rockdale and New Year's 
River, near Grahamstown, in August and November of that year. From 
the circumstance of finding one of them in company with /. Boiokeri, mihi, 
Mr. Atherstone imagined the two to be sexes of one species. In 1865 Mr. 
J. H. Bowker sent a male from the neighbourhood of the Tsomo River, in 
Kaffraria Proper, and noted it frequenting J cac /a trees, and, like /. Bowlieri, 
having the habit of lighting in among the branches and settling on dry 
twigs, where it was easily taken with the fingers. This is the only ^ of the 
insect that I have seen,i but three others, $ s, have reached me from Mrs. 
^ I have since received another taken in 1884 by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson near 
Estcourt, Natal. This example differs from Colonel Bowker's in being of a brighter blue 
above. I have also seen a third, from " Kaffraria," belonging to Mr. H. Grose Smith, and 
a fourth, taken by Mr. F. 0. Selous, a little N. of Bamangwato (River Tauwani). 
