PHASIS. By Dr. C. Attrivillius. 
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Ph. malagrida W allengr. is similar to the preceding, but somewhat smaller and particularly different malayrida. 
by both wings above being blackish-grey as far as the centre; the orange colour therefore on the forewing merely 
forms a discal spot covering the proximal halves of the areas 2 and 3, and on the hindwing a submarginal band 
in 1 c to 4; the spots beneath are rather white than silvery; the discal band on the hindwing beneath is serpentine, 
narrow and coherent. Cape Colony to Transvaal. 
Ph. aranda Wallengr. (70 f, g). Wings above light orange, at the base slightly or scarcely darkened; aranda. 
fore wing with an equally broad (about 2 mm) black marginal band and a triangular costal-marginal spot which 
is more or less coherent with it and reaches to vein 5 or 4; hindwing with a fine, black marginal line and a 
large, black costal-marginal spot. Cape Colony to Transvaal. — ab. rougemonti Obertfi. only deviates by rougemonti. 
the costal-marginal spot of the forewing being streak-shaped and posteriorly defined by vein 6. Transvaal. 
— zilka Smith is another aberration exhibiting like rougemonti a narrow costal-marginal spot of the forewing zilka. 
posteriorly defined by vein 6 and being besides distinguished by the marginal band of the forewing being narrower 
and posteriorly tapering, and besides the costal-marginal spot of the hindwing is small or entirely absent; the 
ground-colour beneath is also less red, more brownish. Among the typical form: a specimen of this form also 
occurs among the typical specimens of Wallengren. 
Ph. marshalli nov. spec. This new species is closely allied to Ph. aranda and only differs from it by marshalli. 
the marginal band of the forewing above ending at vein 2 and enclosing small, yellowish marginal spots at 
least in the areas 2 to 4, the ground-colour of the hindwing beneath being greyish-yellowish or reddish-yellow 
with black discal spots. The ground-colour above is light orange, and the hindwing only has a very fine, black 
marginal line and dark, distally yellowish fringes. The black costal-marginal spot of the forewing is sometimes 
narrow streak-shaped and defined by vein 6, sometimes more triangular and extended to vein 5 or 4, that of 
the hindwing small or entirely absent . Gaza Land, discovered and communicated to me by G. A. K. Marshall. 
Ph. simplex Trim., with respect to the reduction of the black markings above is the extremest form simplex. 
of this group. Both wings above light crange with a fine black marginal line which is only somewhat broader 
at the apex of the forewing; hindwing and apex of forewing beneath light greyish-brown with whitish spots 
encircled by dark; discal spots of hindwing separate, not confluent as in thyra. Damara Land to Matabele 
Land. 
Ph. damarensis Trim. (70 g) differs from the three species mentioned last by the broader, above distinctly damarensis. 
light (whitish) spotted fringes of the wings. Wings above as far as the base recldish-yellow with a black marginal 
band and a black costal-marginal spot which is at the costal margin more or less united with the marginal band; 
marginal band of forewing 2 to 3 mm broad, rather equally broad, but proximally often deeply indented at 
the veins; marginal band of the hindwing narrow linear or dissolved into dots; costal-marginal spot of the 
hindwing large and broad, square or transverse; rarely the whole costal-marginal half of the hindwing above 
is black (separate species?); forewing beneath in the centre more or less reddish-yellow; hindwing and the 
margins of the forewing lighter or darker brownish; the spots are separate and filled up with light, only the 
postdiscal spots of the hindwing are united into a dentate arcuate line. In dry districts of Central South Africa 
from the Damara Land to the Delagoa Bay. -— ab. punctata ab. nov. (= damarensis Trim. var. 1904) differs punctata. 
above by the costal-marginal spots of both wings being absent and the marginal band only represented by 
small, separate, black dots; instead of the costal-marginal spot of the forewing there are two small submarginal 
dots (in 6 and 7); under surface like in the type. Kimberley. 
Ph. molonio Trim. (70 f) is very much like the preceding species and only differs by the black marginal molomo. 
band of the forewing being broader, proximally almost entirely margined, and by the costal-marginal spot 
of the hindwing being narrower, posteriorly extended and therefore forming a shortened or almost complete 
submarginal band; the differences beneath have been mentioned in the review of the species. From Cape Colony 
to the north as far as Ovambo Land and to the east as far as Zambezi. 
Ph. thyra L. (70 g). Wings above black; forewing with a large orange spot of the posterior margin, thyra. 
almost reaching to the base, in the $ anteriorly defined by vein 3 (or 4), but in the $ continued by two small 
spots of the areas 4 and 5; hindwing above with a large orange area covering the areas 1 c to 3 almost as far 
as the margin, the base of the areas 4 to 6 and at least the apex of the discal cell. Ground-colour beneath 
varying between a bright violettish red and dark greyish-brown; forewing as usually in the centre extensively 
orange-red; the spots are normally developed, the discal spots of the hindwing, however, are, as is stated in 
the review of the species, united into an irregular transverse stripe. Cape Colony to Transvaal. 
Ph. almeida Fldr. (70 g) is very similar to Ph. thyra and only discernible by the marking of the almeida. 
hindwing beneath. Cape Colony to Transvaal. — The figure shows little likeness to the original. 
Ph. dentatus Sivierstra is unknown to me. The description says: above orange-yellow with blackish- dentatus. 
brown margins; forewing at the base lighter than in the centre, somewhat scaled black; the black marginal 
