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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 59 deeper ochre-yellow aud have the discocellular fuscous markings and extracellular costal bar heavier and more confluent, while the common fuscous hind-marginal border varies a good deal in width, being in some specimens narrower than shown in the figure. The femalesl are distinguished from the males by their much narrower fuscous markings on the upperside ; although these markings vary in development, they are at their widest narrower than in the most lightly marked male. The underside is alike in the two sexes. This is a very close ally of D. aslauga, Trim., but separated by its paler ground-colour (without any tinge of orange) and well-defined fuscous hiud-marginal border on the upperside-the latter character being specially noticeable in the hind wings, where in D. aslauga it is wanting. On the underside the markings agree with those of aslauga, but all the rufous spots are much more conspicuous, being larger and paler, especially those of the hind-marginal and submarginal series. D. aslauga inhabits the Natal coast, and has also been brought from Zanzibar. 106. DURBANIA PUELLARIS, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 14, $ .) Closely allied to D. puella (Kirby) 2. Exp. at ( 3 ) 1 in. 3 lin.; ( $ ) 1 in. 3| lin. 3 . Ochre-yellow ; fore wing with fuscous border at apex. Fore wing : fuscous border broad on costal edge, beginning at extremity of 2nd subcostal nervule, and thence narrowing to a point on hind-marginal edge at extremity of 3rd median nervule, whence runs a linear prolongation to extremity of 2nd median nervule; inner edge of this border showing marked indentation on each nervule, the deepest being on upper radial nervule, where the border abruptly narrows ; costa bordered for a little distance from base with blackish, and beyond this a small blackish spot. U N D E R SIDE.- Paler; hind wing and apex of fore wing creamy-yellow. Fore wing: costal edge with 5 small black spots, of which the 1st and 2nd are subbasal and strongly marked; the 3rd faint, very thin, just above extremity of discoidal cell ; the 4th like the 3rd. and about as far beyond it as the 3rd is from the 2nd ; and the 5th is largest, elongate, rather faint, extending to below subcostal nervure, and corresponding in position to the inner edge of the apical border of the upperside ; a very fine black line interrupted on nervules along hind-marginal edge from apex to lower radial nervule. Hind wing : 5 well-marked but rather small round black spots, viz., one in the discoidal cell just before origin of 1st median nervule ; one below cell, a little beyond the same point; and three discal, one being subapical between the subcostal nervules, and the other two between 3rd and 1st median nervules ; on hind- 1 B. otlanga, Smith and Kirby (op. cit. p. 46, pi. xi. figs. 9, 10), is suggested " possibly the female of D. hildegarda,n but is widely different as regards both colour of upperside and pattern of underside. 2 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, xix. p. 365 (1S87); Smith and Kirby, Ehop. Exot. i. Lycam. Afr. p. 12, pi. iii. figs. 9, 10 (1888)-Teriomima puella. |