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orange or yellow preceding it. Forc-iuing : disco-cellular vSpot larger 

 and rounder than in $ ; inner-marginal stripe moderately broad, vary- 

 ing from pale-grey to blackish, — its truncate extremity always blackish, 

 and often emitting a short thin upward streak,— its basal portion often 

 more or less thinly diffused over discoidal cell. Hind-idng : costal 

 stripe rather ill defined and diffused, — its blackish extremity almost 

 separate, elongate, forming the commencement of the ordinary angu- 

 lated discal ray, which is usually obsolete or obsolescent between second 

 subcostal and radial nervules, and sometimes so near inner margin also ; 

 basal dusky-grey suffusion usually filling greater part of discoidal cell, 

 and extending below it to beyond middle ; hind-marginal black spots 

 very variable in development, sometimes scarcely larger than in ^, but 

 usually much more so, — especially the three superior ones, which occa- 

 sionally coalesce into a short border. Under side.— Fore-ivi7ig : apical 

 patch darker than in $, being more densely freckled, the traversing 

 ray of the upper side reproduced in dusky grey ; base faintly tinged 

 with yellowish ; disco-cellular spot well defined ; inner-marginal sti'ipe 

 fainter and narrower, except at extremity. Hind-wing : pinkish-creamy 

 or yellowish-creamy, more closely striolated and freckled generally than 

 in ^ ; incomplete discal ray faintly indicated in brownish. 



Larva. — Dull reddish-sandy above, with a broad dull-grey median 

 longitudinal stripe, interrupted on middle of each segment by a large 

 quadrate purplish-black spot. Sides superiorly w^hitish, lower down 

 greyish-sandy, and inferiorly (with legs, ventral surface, and head) 

 dark-brown. General surface very sparsely set with very short white 

 hairs. Dorsal surface minutely shagreened with raised whitish dots, 

 but also with a number of considerably larger and more prominent 

 deep gamboge-yellow dots, in transverse rows of six and two on each 

 segment. 



(Described from a single specimen, advanced towards pupation, re- 

 ceived from Colonel Bowker in August 1887, which pupated on 25th,) 



Pupa. — Very pale ochreous-yellow, with a slight reddish tinge 

 over all the lower surface. On back, a median and two lateral grey 

 longitudinal streaks, — each of the latter bounded interiorly by a yel- 

 lowish-white line ; between median and lateral streaks, on each side, 

 two rows of more or less distinct small blackish spots ; mixed with 

 these some minute greyish speckles. Wing-covers and leg-covers here 

 and there finely streaked with grey, the former with a row of minute 

 black dots near hind-margin. Abdomen inferiorly with a median and 

 two lateral dark-grey longitudinal streaks. Length, 9 lin. ; depth (from 

 back to bulge of wing-covers), 3 lin. 



' (Described from two specimens received from Colonel Bowker 

 (D'Urban, Natal) in August 1887, resulting in ^ imagines on the 

 23d and 25th respectively.) 



The pupa formed by the larva above described produced a $ 

 imago on 14th September. It was more brightly and deeply coloured 



