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the species oiamed. Fore-iving : two basal and two sub-basal small dark- 
\ purple spots, two on costa and the other two in discoidal cell ; first 
' stripe from costa as usual ; second, about middle, wholly different, 
' being transverse instead of outwardly oblique, and not longer than the 
I first, terminating abruptly (with a dark-purple edging) just below 
' median nervure ; costal spot as usual ; third stripe from costa very 
much longer, roughly parallel with hind-margin as far as submedian 
; nervure, irregular, in some specimens even interrupted on third median 
I nervule ; inner submarginal streak commencing with a costal spot and 
widening into a similar spot on third median nervule, when it almost 
touches a projection of the third stripe ; outer streak linear, close to 
I hind-margin. Hind-wing : sub-basal row of spots as in Masilikazi, 
but the spots larger ; three smaller basal spots better marked ; long 
central oblique angulated stripe having same direction as usual, but 
irregular and more or less interrupted on second subcostal and third 
median nervules ; second stripe in usual position, but curved inwardly, 
and touching, or even occasionally confluent with, first stripe at the latter 's 
points of interruption ; inner submarginal streak replaced by a stripe 
similar to the others, which (as in Etolus, Cram.) is widened about the 
middle, and there meets both the extremity of the second stripe and the 
angulation of the first, and from the latter point is itself narrowed and 
angulated to inner margin ; outer submarginal streak obsolete except 
near apex and anal angle ; at the latter two black spots, of which the 
upper one is silvery- spangled ; immediately bordering outer edge of 
lower part of submarginal stripe some bright-orange scaling. 
$ Blue much paler ^ ivithout purple lustre. Fore-wing : first short 
ochre-yellow stripe much reduced, second and third more even and 
wider than in $. Hind-iving : inclining to whitish on upper part of 
disc, rendering the dusky stripes less indistinct; submarginal bluish 
streak whiter and broader. Under side. — As in 
The specimen, of which the under side is figured by Hewitson, has 
all the stripes of a faded greyish ochre-yellow instead of dark-purple ; 
he gives Natal as its locality. Two similar $ s (one with the stripes 
rather darker) were sent to me by Colonel Bowker from Griqualand 
West. 
This species, most like Natcdcnsis on the upper side, is nearer to 
MasUikazi on the under side, but may at once be distinguished from 
both by the shortness of the second and length of the third stripes in 
the fore-wings (just the reverse of the corresponding markings in those 
species, and indeed in the other South- African Aphncci), and by the 
irregularity and crowding together of the stripes of the hind-wing. 
This is by no means a common species, the Transvaal territory seeming to 
be its metropolis. It occurs as far north as the Makalaka country. 
]\Ir. W. Morant captured specimens near Potchefstroom at the end of 
February, and Mr. F. C. Selous in the North- West Transvaal in February and 
March. Wallengren's full description is taken from a single individual cap- 
tured in the Transvaal by Mr. N. Person. Mr. H. L. Feltham notes it as 
