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The Cape Town specimens, in both sexes, have the upper side red 
deeper in colour, and more restricted in area (especially as regards the 
hind-wing) than those from more eastern localities.-^ In the latter, 
the red in both wings commences close to base, and in the hind-wing 
always occupies basal half of costa, while in the fore-wing it is usually 
confluent with the basal ochrey-yellow border of costa. In a very 
large pair ($ I in. 6 lin., $ i in. 7-I- lin.), which I took in Bain's 
Kloof, on the Worcester side, the $ presents a very broad area of 
bright orange-red, while the though the red is well developed 
basally, has the dark border so enlarged as to cover the outer half of 
each wing. Specimens from the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth, and 
in a less degree those from near Grahamstown, are not only smaller 
than usual, but exhibit on the under side of the hind-wing rather 
less irregularity in the discal whitish streak, and about the middle of 
the submarginal streak a small but distinct whitish cloud or suff'u- 
sion.^ The paired sexes of this variation, captured in October 1879, 
at Zwartkops railway cutting, were sent to me by Colonel Bowker. 
Examples from Kalfraria Proper and Natal are also small, and in 
them the very wide red field is decidedly paler and yellower, and on 
the under side a more or less decided lake hue seems constantly pre- 
sent, together with more glistening whitish markings in the hind-wing. 
Cramer's figures (oj?. cit.) roughly represent a $ in which the upper- 
side orange is rather pale and of restricted area, and indented in both 
wings by a disco- cell alar dark spot ; the under side is of the purplish- 
lake coloration. Htibner's excellent illustrations are evidently from 
Cape Town specimens ; they exhibit ^ s of both colorations, but Hiibner 
has given the larger (lake beneath) as the 
Pupa. — .Dull yellowish-green ; back of thorax greener than the 
other parts. Abdomen with a median dorsal dark-ashy streak. Spi- 
racles raised, brownish. About half an inch in length ; thick, rounded, 
smooth ; head blunt ; dorso-thoracic prominence elevated but blunt. 
(Lying, quite free of any attachment or cocoon, under a stone, near 
Cape Town, 27th September 1874.) 
The larva's skin, which still surrounded the tail of this pupa, was 
dull-brown, rather closely set with short black (and some white) spines ; 
the head rather large, shining dark-brown. 
A ^ imago emerged on 20th October. 
^ A remarkable 'exception occurs in a (5 taken by M. L. .Pdringuey at Hex Eiver 
Mountain in the Worcester District, where the red is much more restricted than in any Cape 
Town example that I have seen, forming in the fore-wing only a narrow discal ray, and in 
the hind-wing only a discal patch wholly beyond middle. 
2 Very near these, but pakr and duller generally, and with the whitish cloud much le^^s 
apparent, are a ? from Basutoland, and another (with border of fore-wing broader than 
usual) from Griqualand West, both taken by Colonel Bowker, Two larger ? s from Little 
Namaqualand are similar, but have the lake coloration on the under side. A small 6 from 
the Eastern Transvaal has the fore- wing border remarkably narrow, and the stricS of the 
under side (lake) of the hind-wing glistening and unusually regulai-.^ 
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