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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
base to band rather widely speckled with white ; inner discal area 
smooth fuscous, not speckled; in discoidal cell two blackish white- 
ringed spots, one near base rounded, the other 8 -shaped about 
middle ; a similar larger, curved, sublunulate mark at extremity of 
cell. Hind-wing : a double parallel series of white annulets near base, 
— two annulets being above discoidal cell, two 8 -shaped ones in 
cell, and two below cell ; an imperfect elongate suffused white lunule 
at extremity of cell ; a series of nine elongate, orange, oiihcardly black 
and hroivn dotted, luhite-ringed spots, suhnarginal for the greater part 
of its course, round the wing from costa heyond middle to hmer margin 
close to hase. Cilia brownish, with very small white inter-nervular 
interruptions. 
$ Similar, slightly pcdcr. Fore-iving : band broader, its upper 
three spots confluent ; a very small additional (sixth) spot between 
first median nervule and submedian nervure. Hind-iving : band broader, 
except as regards the first spot. Under side. — As in $, but subocellate j 
orange and blackish white-ringed spots in the hind-wing enlarged and 
slightly suff*used. 
The 2^osition of the orange hand on the upper side of both wings at 
once distinguishes this very handsome form from D. Amakosa, as in 
none of those of the latter in which the orange is most developed does 
its external edge come nearly so close to the hind-margin ; the brighter, 
redder tint of the orange is also very noticeable in Limbata, as well 
as the more important distinction that, in both sexes, the band of 
the fore-wings is bi^oader in its upper than in its lower p)07''tion (the 
reverse being the case in Amakosa) ; in the also the sixth (lowest) 
spot in the fore-wing band is absent, and in the $ it is very small. 
On the under side, the browner less ashy tint of the hind- wing and 
border of fore-wing, with the distinct black cellular markings and 
inner edging of orange band, and in the hind-wing the very distinct 
basal annulets and the long and conspicuous series (following three- 
fourths of the circuit of the wing) of white-ringed red-and-blackish 
spots — only a portion of which are indistinctly represented in some 
specimens of Amakosa, are also noticeable distinctions. There is much 
less white in the cilia of D. limbata. 
The discovery of this butterfly is due to Mr. J. M. Hutchinson of Kim- 
bolton, near Estcourt, Natal, who sent nie a $ in June 1882. I thought it 
possible that this might be merely a sport of the variable D. Amakosa, but 
recommended Mr. Hutchinson to look out for other specimens ; and in July 
1884 I was delighted to receive from him two more ^ s and a with the 
information that seven had been captured, including the paired sexes, about 
three miles from Estcourt, and that these examples did not present any varia- 
tion, particularly in the important feature of the position of the orange 
bands. 
Mr. Hutchinson writes that the insect occurs in several spots along the 
Bushman's River, but always in the same kind of station, viz., the sides or 
summits of rocky hills. The specimens noticed were all — with one exception, 
which was on the wing — sitting on stones, and were easily boxed while settled. 
