LYCJEmDJE. 
along hind -margin ; tails black, white-tipped, the lower one orange at 
base. Cilia ochre-yellow. Under side. — Fale tohitish-yellow, with 
orange-ocJireous or orange, mcdally golden-s}o angled transverse st^^ij^es, 
finely hut distinctly hlach-edgcd on hath sides. Fore-ioing : three stripes 
from costal edge, viz., first short, quite transverse, before middle to 
median nervure or a little below it,— second long, oblique, fuscous 
below first median nervule, extending to submedian nervure not far 
before posterior angle, — third beyond middle, quite transverse, abruptly 
terminating (with rounded, black-edged extremity) just below third 
median nervule ; between second and third stripes a costal spot of the 
same colouring; a similar sub-basal spot in discoidal cell; two sub- 
marginal black streaks, of which the inner is thicker and more irregular 
inferiorly ; hind-margin with a very well-defined linear black edging. 
Hind-wing : base and inner margin to beyond middle rather widely 
bordered with orange-ochreous, edged outwardly by a series of five 
small black spots ; two stripes from costal edge of a brighter orange 
than those of fore- wing, viz., first very long, oblique, from before 
middle to below first median nervule, where it is sharply angulated, 
and whence its black edges only are continued to inner margin, — the 
second almost parallel from a little before apex to third median 
nervule, where (like the first at its angulation) it joins an irregular, 
inferiorly- widened, golden-spangled orange inner submarginal streak, 
terminating at anal angle ; outer submarginal black streak and hind- 
marginal linear edging as in fore-wing ; anal-angular black spot larger 
than on upper side. Cilice orange. Collar rufous. 
^ Like but blue in fore-wing occupying more of discoidal cell, 
and usually more or less obscuring first transverse ochre-yellow stripe ; 
two outer stripes of fore-wing broader, and usually more widely con- 
fluent at lower extremities. Under side. — Quite as in ^. 
Numerous specimens of both sexes collected in Basutoland by Colonel 
Bowker, as well as one which I took in Griqii aland West, are rather smaller 
than the Natal examples, and the orange of the under-side stripes, &c., is 
replaced by pale creamy-ochreous with a slight ferruginous tinge ; the tails 
of the hind-wings are also rather shorter. 
I have had great difficulty in deciding whether Westwood's Natalensis is 
the butterfly above described, or the species immediately following. There is 
no description given in the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, and only the 
upper side of an apparently worn individual (? female) is figured. The pre- 
valent form on the coast of Natal is the species {Masililxad of Wallengren, 
Natalensis of Hopffer and myself) with purple fasciae on the under side ; and 
in the British Museum Collection this was the species labelled Natalensis," 
although associated with it was the single Sierra Leone individual mentioned 
in my Rliopalocera Africre Australis (p. 228) with orange fascise. When 
in 1868 {loc. cit.) I described the orange-banded form as a distinct species 
{A. caffer), I found that He wit son {op. cit.) had figured it as Natalensis^ 
Westw., giving the upper side of a (J and the under side of a 9 • Be-exa- 
mination of Hewitson's figure of the upper side in the Genera, in com- 
parison with a large number of specimens, has led me to conclude — especially 
in view of the large size of the orange anal-angular marking in the hind- 
