(434) 



bnffish. Hindwiug : bluish border of band wide, especially proxiraally in and 



behind cell ; admarginal spots cream colonr, blnish at and bnffish between veins, iu 

 most individuals widely interrupted between veins, but sometimes the halfmoons 

 complete ; blue submarginal dots varying in number from 2 to 5. 



Undi'rside : reddish chestnut up to median bars or almost ferruginons ; discal 

 bars R' — SM- of hindwing more or less heavily marked, often also bar SC^ — R' 

 present ; postdiscal interspaces (between white band and postdiscal bars) of the 

 same or nearly the same tint as the submarginal interspaces ; wing strongly 

 dentate, tails long and pointed. 



?. Like J, abdomen beneath pale orange with two black, slightly interrupted 

 lines. 



Wings, above : more brown, less deep black than in S, band wider than in c?. 



Forewing : baud 10 to 12 mm. broad at SM", the upper spots often orange 



distally, spots R' — R^ elongate in most specimens, shorter in those from Natal than 

 in individuals from tropical East Africa, sometimes there is a very faint vestige 

 of the discal spots SO* — R' present iu Ch. brutns am/ara ? ; marginal spots dull 

 orange, whitish in middle at edge of wing. — —Hindwing: admarginal spots seldom 

 vestigial only, occasionally not interrupted between veins, smaller in Natal speci- 

 mens than individuals from tropical E. Africa. 



Underside exhibits the same distinguishing characters as (J, tooth at M' com- 

 paratively shorter than in S. 



Length of forewing : c?, 37—45 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 42—50 mm. 



Penis as in andara with a minnte tooth shortly behind the snbapical tooth. 



Hab. East Africa, from Natal to the Tanganyika, Kilimandjaro and the coast 

 regions of German East Africa, not found in the Cape Colony, and not yet recorded 

 from the coast districts of British East Africa. In the Tring Museum 11 S3, 

 14?? from: Natal: Rikatla, Delagoa Bay ; Mozambique; Dar-es-Salaam ; Taveta 

 (July); Zomba and Lauderdale, Nyassaland ; Parambira, October 22nd and Novem- 

 ber 7th (Dr. Ansorge). 



The larva was discovered by Mr. Gooch. Dr. Trimen, I.e., describes the 

 caterpillar and chrysalis as follows : — 



" Larva. — Bright yellowish green (covered with minute yellow granules) ; 

 second and last segments of a much duller green than the others. On each side of 

 back a row of cuneiform yellowish marks, broad anteriorly, and deflected upward 

 and posteriorly, narrowing to a point before hind-edge of the segment. On seventh 

 segment a yellow-circular dorsal marking with a brown centre. Head light green ; 

 the frontal horns short and tipjied with cobalt-blue, — the two outer horns shorter 

 than the two middle ones ; mandibles light blue tijiped with black. (W. D. Gooch, 

 MS. description and outline drawing of Natalian larva, 1874). 



" Captain H. C. Harford, who also observed the larva in Natal, saw the ova 

 deposited on the leaves of the Seringa {Melia azedarach), and noted that they were 

 at first pale yellow, but became in a few hours reddish brown. From an egg that 

 was watched on a leaf out of doors the larva was hatched on the eighth day after its 

 deposit. It was brownish green, with the head and horns brown, and the caudal 

 processes very long and curved inward. After the first moult, it was dark olive 

 green, with a slight indication of a pale spot on the back of the seventh segment ; 

 the head being of a darker brown, but the horns lighter at the tip ; while the anal 

 processes were light ashy grey. After the second moult, it became dark green 



