Zoology.-] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. \_Instcts. 



mark on edg'e of black margin at anal angle, narrowly edged above with blue. 

 UNDER SURFACE. — Anterior iving : Base bright chestnut, with black mark and 

 cream median spot, as on upper surface ; costal area, as far as large central cream- 

 colour patch, black, with many transverse white lines; black apical portion as in upper 

 surface, but brownish near tip ; first arched cream-colour spot larger than on upper 

 sides, and with a large blue circle with black centre, on black between it and median 

 cream patch ; second and third spots as on upper surface, but with two ocellated 

 spots of black outlines and black dot in centre between them on brownish apical 

 area ; two faint purplish-grey lines parallel to margin near edge. Posterior wing : 

 Mottled with three shades of dark walnut- wood brown and dull purplish-grey lines ; 

 five irregularly unequal circular ocellated spots under those of upper surface, but 

 much larger, a dark outline and small centra' dark dot to each on brown ground ; 

 beyond this a broad greyish margin to edges, including a dark narrow continuous 

 undulating line in middle, parallel to edges ; near end of internal nervure, between 

 it and hind edge, is a light-grey triangular patch with a conspicuous black round 

 spot in its middle; two or three transverse oblong dark-brown patches on the 

 discoidal cell, and three or four angular ones on the spaces above and below the 

 basal half of the costal nervure, and first and second sub-costal nervules are narrowly 

 edged with white. Measurements : Expanse of male from tip to tip, 2 inches ; of 

 female, 2 inches 4 lines. Larva; Varying in colour, some black, with numerous 

 transverse rows of minute white dots, greyish below, feet and spines blackish, with a 

 conspicuous broad light-colour band on each side over the feet, and a more slender 

 one over it on each side. Others pale-brownish on back, ilesh colour on sides and 

 below, and with yellowish spines and feet. Length a little over 1 inch. Feeds on 

 nettles. Picpa : Richly gilt, head bifid, with two acute conical lateral angles ; two 

 rows of large conical spines along abdomen. Length 11 lines. 



Reference. — Fabr. Syst. Ent., p. 498; Sp. Ins., p. 82; Don. Ins. N. H., 

 t. 26, f. 1. 



All the Butterflies of the family Nymplicdidw (comprising over 

 four thousand distinct species, or about four times as many as any 

 other family of diurnal Lepidoptera) agree in the peculiarity of 

 having the anterior pair of legs too small to be used for walking 

 or clinging in both sexes, but most defective in the males, without 

 joints to the tarsus or claws, the female having the tarsus in- 

 distinctly 5-jointed, but mthout claws ; while the genera like 

 Pyrameis of the sub-family NymphalincB have the discoidal cell in 

 the hind wings open (that is, not closed by the lowest disco-cellular 

 nervule, which is absent). In the two species on om' Plate 198 

 there is in its place a slight narrow groove or inflection of the 

 surface in the position usually held by the lower disco-cellular 

 nervule, Avliich casts a shadow, making it look like a ner\^ile and 

 possibly leading to mistakes if the character be carelessly observed ; 

 I have represented it with dotted lines on the outline plan of the 

 nerves of the wings, Fig. Ih. 



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