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Show 1891.] FROM SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA. 69 more or less broad in hind wing. Fore wing : basal black variable width, but always very narrow costally ; a transversely elongate subbasal spot (in three examples divided across the middle) below median nervure; a similar marking in discoidal cell about or a little before origin of 1st median nervule, and another, more oblique and usually thinner, at extremity of cell; in the highly-irregular discal series of seven spots, the first four form an outwardly-arched narrow subcostal macular bar at some distance beyond cell, the fifth is apart from and a little beyond the 4th, the 6th is much nearer base and situated directly under terminal cellular spot, and the 7th a little beyond the 6th; in three examples an 8th spot (before the 7th) on inner-marginal edge; a submarginal series of five spots, of which the upper three (between upper radial and 2nd median nervules) are in a straight line directed outward inferiorly, while the remaining two (of which the lower is usually geminate) are about equidistant from hind margin; a linear black edging along costa ; sublinear hind-marginal edging exceedingly attenuated at posterior angle but moderately (in three examples considerably) widened at apex. Hind wing : basal black widest on either side of median nervure, and not extending to costal or inner-marginal edge ; a spot in discoidal cell beyond its middle ; a very"irregular discal series of eight spots, of which the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 7th (usually geminate) are considerably beyond the rest; all these spots are seldom present, the inferior ones being especially liable to disappear, and in two examples only the minutest traces of two spots are visible ; hind-marginal border very variable, not only in its width but in the regular or irregular nervular indentation by ground-colour of its inner edge, and in the presence or absence of 7 dull-yellowish spots (the latter are distinct in two examples, indistinctly traceable in five, and wanting in the remaining five). Cilia white in fore wing, whitish in hind wing. UNDERSIDE.-Considerably paler (especially hind wing and apical area of fore wing), with markings mainly as on upperside; but no basal black, and hind-marginal border of hind wing with seven conspicuous yellowish-white spots. Fore wing : in examples where apical widened blackish edging is broader than usual, that expansion contains a series of three yellowish-white spots. Hind iving : at base itself a black mark ; in five examples a small spot close to base on costal lobe ; a subbasal discocellular spot, and a curved irregular row of five spots (of which the 2nd is an outer discocellular one). 5 . TAke male, but usually considerably duller and browner in tint, and with hind wing markedly paler; spots not so black; basal suffusion not black but greyish-fuscous, variable in extent (in tioo examples obsolescent). Fore wing : the eighth (inner marginal) spot of discal series present in five examples. U N D E R S I D E . - H i n d wing and apical area of fore wing more distinctly paler than rest of fore wing, in some specimens creamy yellowish. Fore wing: in apical area indistinct yellow-ochreous internervular rays. Abdomen in both sexes white, tinged with canary-yellow laterally and ventrally; but dorsally, from base to a point on third segment, |