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almost to the last crimson mark (at anal angle) ; between costal 

 nervure and second subcostal nervule, discal band (which is enlarged, 

 almost continuous, and greenish-while) succeeded by two conspicuous 

 brownish-black spots ; subinarginal lunular series very indistinct, but 

 with brown edging internally ; the space beyond the fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth lunules black, with hoary-grey as on u];)per side. Abdomen : 

 black above, white beneath ; a narrow lateral longitudinal black stripe 

 separated from dorsal black by a yellowish one. $ Like $, hut duller 

 and paler. Hind-icing : hasal stripe much enlarged, furming a mode- 

 ately u'ide border along inner margin to not feir from crimson-red metric, 

 fchieh is letrger and lumdate. 



The South-African specimens above described are throughout paler 

 than the AVest-African type-form, the ground being less dark and the 

 markings less green ; and they present larger spots in the submarginal 

 row of the fore-wings. On the under side, also, the crimson markings 

 of the hind-wings are narrower and less continuous, and the dark 

 markings of both fore and hind wings are less developed. A $ from 

 the Zambesi (taken by the Eev. H. Waller), though nearer to the 

 West- African form in nearly all respects, has the submarginal spots of 

 the fore-wings rather larger ; but all the other green markings of the 

 upper side are remarkably reduced, especially the cellular bars and 

 discal spots 1-6 of the fore-wings. 



? Larva. — Back ferruginous-red, transversely striped with black. 

 Head sandy-yellow. On each segment, except second, third, and 

 fourth (thoracic), a median transverse streak of greyish-blue, black- 

 edged both anteriorly and posteriorly; on thoracic segments no blue 

 streak, but the transverse black edging streaks strongly marked ; second 

 segment bright yellow; on each thoracic segment, situate dorso- 

 laterally, a pair of forward- and outward-pointing short acute black 

 spines. Lower part of sides (separated from dorsal ferruginous by a 

 lateral black stripe) pale-bluish, fading into whitish on the under 

 surface. On anal segment a pair of short, acute, backward- and out- 

 ward-pointing spines, superiorly yellow at base and mesially bluish, 

 but at tip and inferiorly black. 



I received in 1878 four living larvae, collected near D'Urban by 

 Colonel Bowker, and was led to think that they probably were those of 

 Foliccnes because one of them became an imperfect pupa, agreeing in 

 the main with some from which I reared this species, and also because 

 they closely resembled a pencil-drawing by ]\Ir. W. D. Gooch of a 

 larva taken in the same locality, and referred by him doubtfully to 

 Foliccnes. One of the four examples sent by Colonel Bowker was 

 much smaller than the others, and evidently in a much earlier moult, 

 but it differed in no particular except in the proportionally larger 

 thoracic spines. 



Food-plant : Artabotrys, n. sp., one of the Ano7iacex, native of 

 D'Urban, Xatal, and of Delagoa Inay. (Determined for Colonel Bowker, 



