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marks, both line and marks being strongest at submedian nervnre 
where they abruptly terminate. Hincl-iving : a basal and inner-mar- 
ginal band, irregularly dentate on its edges, leaving a very narrow 
inner-marginal edging of white ; a second band, continuous of first 
band of fore- wing, crossing obliquely from costa about middle to a little 
distance before anal-angular lobe, where it narrows and coalesces with 
extremity of inner-marginal band ; a third band, running parallel to 
the second, is confluent at apex and about middle of hind-margin, with 
a hind-marginal band similar to that of fore-wing, and near anal angle 
with the second band ; no black traversing line in hind-marginal band, 
but the white markings more continuous than in fore-wing. 
$ Without 'purph gloss; yelloiu-ochreous marldngs in hoth luings ; 
basal region of wings irrorated with light-bluish scales. Fore-wing : 
all the markings much more developed than in ^ ; the quadrate cellular 
marking more or less indistinctly produced into an oblique band, which, 
on submedian nervure beyond middle, meets the extremity of the vari- 
able but uninterrupted submarginal stripe ; the much-enlarged Y-shaped 
subcostal marking beyond middle is prolonged to join submarginal stripe 
on second median nervule (in two specimens it is confluent with the 
stripe). Hind-ioing : inner-marginal region from base clothed with 
light-bluish hairs ; a narrow submarginal yellow-ochreous stripe, com- 
mencing indistinctly about first subcostal nervule, is joined between 
third and second median nervules by an oblique wider stripe of the 
same colour, commencing on first subcostal nervule about middle. 
Under side, — As in but the transverse bands paler, and inclining 
to an orange-ochreous tint ; whitish lunulate marks in hind-marginal 
border much enlarged and suffused. Fore-ioing : extremity of third 
band does not meet the second band. Ilincl-iving : the inner-marginal 
band is externally more irregularly dentate than in ^, a small portion 
at origin of first median nervule forming a separate spot. 
This Aphnceus is distinguished from all its congeners except A. 
Namaqious by the silverg-white ground-colour of the under side of the 
wings. The arrangement of the bands of the under side comes nearest 
to that presented by A. Natcdensis, Westw. On the upper side the $ 
is further remarkable for its rich purple gloss and want of discal blue, 
and the $ for the great development of the yellow-ochreous markings, 
particularly in the hind-wings. 
Mr. J. H. Bowker sent me a $ of this beautiful species from the Yaal 
River, Griqualand West, in July 187 1, and has since forwarded three s and 
three $ s from Klipdrift, on the same river. He notes the habits of the 
insect as closely resembling those of A. Natalensis. 
On the 1 8th September 1872 I captured a at Klipdrift; it was 
settling on a high bush. 
I have not seen any other examples ; 1 and the only record I have met 
^ Mr. H. L. Feltham has lately (March 1886) presented three specimens to the South- 
African Museum, which wpre taken at Barkly (Klipdrift). He describes the butterfly as 
very plentiful in that locality about the end of December 1885. 
