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prolonged, witli an inward curve, to first median nervule ; cellular grey 
marks indistinctly prolonged below median nervare ; costal spots of the 
ground-colour distinct ; apical grey border intersected by two macular 
streaks of the ground-colour from costal edge, joining the ground- 
colour at their lower extremity ; the outer of these rows is the longer, 
composed of more lunulate, often united spots, and situated immediately 
before the hind-marginal narrow grey edging. Hind-iving : reddish- 
ochreous spots arranged in five transverse rows at about equal distances 
apart, viz., the first, near base, of five minute elongated spots ; the 
second, before middle, of five or six linear more or less united spots ; 
the third, about middle, conspicuous, very irregular, of eight elongate 
spots touching each other and edged with blackish (which is suffused 
exteriorly) ; the fourth and fifth each of seven separated sagittiform 
spots, the outermost row corresponding with that on hind-margin of 
fore-wing ; a spot at extremity of cell ; three spots at base. Antennoe 
ringed alternately with black and white. 
$ Ground-colour the same, hut costcd hlacJdsh horderiiig of fore- 
tving to heyond middle reduced to three or four small dusky spots on edge 
of costa, the outermost and darkest of which represents the ahrupt ter- 
mination of the horder ; a^Dical portion of border narrower and duller 
than in ^, and usually terminating hind-marginally on second median 
nervule. Under side. — As in $. 
There is a little variation as regards the reddish-fuscous hind- 
marginal edging on the upper side of the hind-wing, which in both 
sexes is sometimes slightly widened and with more or less marked 
inward projection on nervules. Two specimens from Zanzibar in the 
Hewitson Collection are rather paler than the typical examples. 
This very distinct little species appears to have no near congener. The 
pattern of the upper side and its colouring are not dissimilar from those of the 
$ s of D. Amakosa, Trim., in which the orange is more than usually developed, 
but the under side is very different from that of any other U Urhania. 
I originally described Aslauga from a $ lent to me in 1869 by Mr. W. 
Morant, who took it in his garden at Pinetown, Natal, on the iQtli May in 
that year. Mr. W. D. Gooch informed me that he had noticed it near D'Urban 
very rarely, but I did not receive any more specimens until the end of 1878, 
when Colonel Bowker sent seven $ s and three 9 s, captured near that town 
on the 30th November and ist December. The latter observer wrote that the 
butterfly was local, but of sociable habits, frequenting dry vine-stems and 
dead branches and twigs at about ten feet from the ground, and settling in 
little groups, repeatedly opening and closing the wings towards the sunshine. 
Localities of Urhania Aslaugct. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. D'Urban (/. II. Boivker). Pinetown (IF. Morant). 
II. Other African Kegions. 
A. South Tropical. 
h. Eastern Coast. — Zanzibar. — Hewitson Coll. 
