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mostly rather ill-defined, glistening sul-metcdlic spots with dark edges. 
Fore-wing : three disco-cellular spots, one below cell ; an irregular, 
bi-angulated, oblique discal row of six, all black with brilliant silvery- 
white centres ; a submarginal regular row of six spots, of wliicli tlie 
three superior are small and indistinct, but the three inferior large and 
black, occasionally with minute silvery dots on their inner side. Hind- 
wing : three rather ill-defined transverse rows of small sub-metallic 
spots, — the first of four or five before middle including a terminal 
disco-cellular lunule, — the second of eight or nine discal, sinuate, irre- 
gular, — the third submarginal, regular, but becoming obsolete supe- 
riorly ; near base three glistening small spots, viz., one close to costa 
and two in discoidal cell. 
$ Similar ; darh borders hroader. Fore-iving : border more deeply 
excavating orange-yellow immediately beyond extremity of discoidal 
cell, and sometimes emitting an ill-defined suffused ray across median 
nervules. Hind-iuing : apical dark patch larger, usually a little suf- 
fused ; anal- angular projection blunter. Under side. — As in $^ but 
all the spots usually better defined. 
In a 9 which I captured at Knysna, in the Cape Colony, the dark border 
of the fore-wing is so enlarged as to occupy the outer two-thirds of the whole 
area, with the exception of a small indistinct discal orange-yellow spot ; and 
the costal-apical patch of the hind-wing is much larger than usual, as well as 
the spot near anal angle. ^ 
Specimens from the Basuto Territory and the Transvaal exhibit in both 
sexes a narrower dark border, especially near the apex of the fore-wing, where 
it is, moreover, usually penetrated (in some cases almost divided) by an upward 
projection or short ray from the discal part of the orange-yellow. '^^ Examples 
from the Coast of Natal resemble these, and some of the ^ s have the costal 
part of the border of the fore-wing still narrower, while in both sexes the anal- 
angular projection of the hind-wing is longer. 
In colouring and in the extent of the orange on the upper side, Aranda 
much resembles the Eastern specimens of Thyra, Linn., but the under-side 
markings, particularly those of the hind-wings, and the greater proportion 
of silvery - centred spots on the fore-wings, show that it is more nearly 
allied to Pierus, Cram., Tdikosama, Wallengr., and Almeida, Feld., though 
differing from all of these in the entire absence of the row of fuscous spots 
close to the hind-margin. Tlie anal-angular projection of the hind-wing is 
much acuter and longer in Aranda than in its near allies ; the butterfly is also 
the smallest of the group. 
I met with this species pretty commonly at Knysna in 1858-59 from the 
middle of October to the middle of January, and again from the beginning of 
March to that of April. It was almost confined to the hills, frequenting dry 
sandy spots, and in habits did not differ from its near congeners. In Eeb- 
^ There are two similar but larger ? s (unfortunately without locality) in the South 
African Museum ; they have the bases, however, much suffused with fuscous-grey, so that 
the orange is greatly obscured or obsolete on costa, and in the hind-wing as well as in the 
fore-wing a more or less marked fuscous discal ray divides the orange. Two £ s accom- 
panying them have the orange redder, and reduced by wider dusky bases and dark borders ; 
in both there is an indication of the dark discal ray across the orange of each wing. 
^ Of two 9 s from Kaffraria Proper, one possesses and the other (the largest specimen I 
have seen) does not possess this short orange ray. Both have the border of fore-wing 
broadly developed, especially on costa beyond middle. 
