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SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 
Transvaal exhibit an intermediate development/ the spots in the fore- 
wing of the ^ being enlarged and elongated, while those of the hind- 
wing form a conflnent band as broad as in the typical ^ ; and the same 
markings in the $ are much widened, and in the fore-wing connected 
with the base by a partly interrupted broad inner-marginal orange ray. 
The examples in which these markings attain their utmost expansion 
are from near Grahamstown and other localities in the Albany District, 
where in the $ the hind-wing band is suflfusedly extended towards base, 
and in the $ really occupies all the area except a more or less suffused 
central costal patch and rather narrow hind-marginal border ; while 
in the fore-wing the spots of the ^ are not much enlarged, but in the 
$ the inner-marginal orange is broad and uninterrupted almost to 
base. 
In some examples of both sexes the whitish spots of the discal 
row on the under side of the hind-wings are outwardly marked with 
red. 
Larva. — Ashy-grey ; a dorsal central darker line bordered on each 
side by a row of rather ill-defined whitish spots ; on each side infe- 
riorly a row of round red spots — those along anterior half of body with 
white marks between them. Head red. Rather sparsely set with 
moderately-long ashy-grey hairs, and (apparently) with a shorter closer 
clothing of ochrey-yellow hairs along the back and on each side ; 
the long hairs apparently springing from series of tubercles. Length, 
6 lin. " On a common species of grass, AntJiistiria ciliata.^' — M. E. 
Barber. Plate II. ff. 2 (from drawings by Mrs. Barber). 
Pupa. — Pale-brown ; some darker lines indicating outline of limbs. 
Under side smooth ; a flat silken coating covering most of abdominal 
surface (only basal segment bare). Back and sides very hairy ; the 
thorax and basal half of abdomen with tufts of short sandy and longer 
whitish hairs; the terminal half with four rows (two dorsal and two 
lateral) of tubercles supporting fascicles of very long bristly brown and 
whitish hairs, the lateral tufts being the longest. Length, ^i^* 
— Plate II. ff. 2a (from my own drawings). 
The above descriptions are made from drawings (of the larva) and 
specimens (of the pupa) received from Mrs. Barber, who wrote that 
these earlier stages of Amahosa were discovered by Miss Fanny Bowker 
at Pembroke, near King William's Town. The caterpillars were feed- 
ing on the grass above named, and were gregarious ; on a flat rock 
beneath the grass numerous chrysalides were attached in a group, five 
or six within a square inch, by a slight silken web ; and among several 
of the butterflies close at hand there were some quite fresh from the 
chrysalis and unable to fly. Mrs. Barber notes that the chrysalis state 
^ Two $ s and a $ from the high country near the source of the Kraai River, in the 
extreme north-east of Cape Colony, are smaller than usual ; in the £ the hind-wing spots 
are confluent, but form a very narrow stripe, and in the ? the orange is of considerable 
width, but has scarcely any baseward extension in fore-wing, and none in hind-wing. 
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