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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
cilia. Hind-iving : costal-apical patcli blunter inferiorly, with (in two 
examples) faint indications of a linear continuation over lower part of 
disc ; Hind-marginal edging broken into a series of quite free and 
separate inter-nervular spots and an outer series of nervular ones. 
Under side. — Rather deeper in tint ; spots generally better defined ; 
the brown clouding in hind-wing inclining to ferruginous. 
Variety A. and $). 
^ Fore-iving : costal patch much longer, beginning at a point 
below costal nervure about middle of superior margin of discoidal cell ; 
hind-marginal border rather narrowed about the middle, more deeply 
dentated with orange on nervules along its inner edge. Hind-wing : 
costal-apical patch considerably broader, its inferior extremity much 
farther from hind-margin, not far from origin of third median nervule. 
$ Rather paler and duller. Fore-icing : costal border more or less 
tinged with greyish ; costal patch smaller, sometimes suffused and ill- 
defined ; liind-margincd harder more or less deeply pierced hy orange 
rays on median nervides and second radial ncrvide (in one specimen as 
far as hind-margin itself). Hind-ioing : costal-apical patch occupying 
same position as in but usually suffused and much reduced in size. 
Under side in both sexes with the spots smaller and duller, and 
with the tint of the hind-wing rather more reddish and with less distinct 
brownish clouding. 
{Hcdj. — Griqualand West, Eastern Interior of Cape Colony, Delagoa 
Bay.) 
On the upper side this species bears much resemblance to Aranda, "Wallengr., 
but its under-side markings plainly indicate its nearer alliance to Orthrus, Trim., 
and TaiJiOsama, AYallengr. The larger size and greater lustre of the metallic 
spots on the under side of the hind- wings perhaps best distinguish it from the 
two latter, though the very great difference in the upper-side colouring consti- 
tutes the most immediately obvious distinction. I do not think it advisable 
to separate the variety just described from Molomo, though the invasion of the 
hind-marginal border of the fore-wing by the orange ground-colour gives the $ 
a very peculiar aspect. 
The S of tkis butterfly wa-s taken by Mr. W. Morant in the Orange Free 
State in November 1868, and in the Transvaal on 25th October 1870. Colonel 
Bowker had previously (October 1864) sent $ s from Kaffraria Proper, and in 
December 1868 forwarded another from Basutoland. The latter naturalist also 
sent me all the examples of the variety I have seen, except a ^ which I took 
at Klipdrift, Griqualand West, on 19th September 1872, a $ from Kimberley 
(in M'hich tlie dark markings are almost obsolete) belonging to Mr. H. Grose 
Smith, and a $ from Delagoa Bay given me by Mrs. Monteiro. 
Localities of Zei^itis Molomo. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colon}^ 
h. Eastern Districts. — Between Somerset East and Murraysburg 
(/. H. Bowker). 
c. Griqualand West. — (Var. A.) Ivlipdrift, Vaal River. Kimberley 
{H. G. Smith). Vaal River (/. H. Boioker). 
d. Basutoland. — Koro-Koro (/. H. BotuJcer). 
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