2i8 SOUTII-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



iiate ; l)ase with a white suffusion over the black extenduig into 

 cliscoidal cell nearly as far as, or sometimes a little beyond, first spot. 

 nind-icinrj : white patch occupying all basal half of wing, except a 

 strongly white suffused, narrow, blackish base, and streak along sub- 

 median nervure, its outer edge rather irregular crossing discoidal cell 

 very near extremity, slightly impinging narrowly and diffusedly on the 

 black between nervules, and dentated by the black on nervules ; close 

 to liind-maro-in, a series of seven rather small spots, of which the first is 

 very small, often indistinct, and sometimes wanting, — the second and 

 third rather broad sub-lunulate, — the fourth thin and lunulate, — the fifth 

 and sixth thin and sagittiform, — and the seventh minute and linear, close 

 to anal angle ; midway between outer edge of white patch and hind-mar- 

 crinal series of spots, a row of three rather small rounded spots (inter-ner- 

 vular) from radial to first median nervules, — rarely a minute fourth spot 

 above radial nervule ; at anal angle, usually a very indistinct ochreous- 

 yellow spot. Cilia white, interrupted with black at the end of the 

 nervules. Under side. — Pattern similar, hut apical area of fore-wing 

 and outer area of liind-wing orJtreous-yelhvv, and lases of both icings lake- 

 red; many of the ivhite viarkings rather enlarged. Fore-wing: basal red 

 fills discoidal cell as far as origin of first median nervule, and extends 

 superiorly as far as third cellular spot ; apical ochreous-yellow enters 

 cell as far as the third spot, and extends narrowly along costa as far as 

 first spot ; second cellular spot produced by an incurved greyish pro- 

 lono^ation quite across cell ; sixth spot of discal series enlarged by a 

 o-reyish ring ; black of ground limited to a small basal space below 

 median nervure, the lower part of outer half of discoidal cell, and a 

 space bounded by third median nervule, hind-margin, and outer edge 

 of white patch. Hind-ioing : neuration and costal edge of white 

 patch ochreous-yellow ; basal red narrow, outwardly black-edged, ex- 

 tending very narrowly along inner margin ; patch externally with a 

 black edging ; strongest from second subcostal nervule to anal angle, 

 and along that inferior half immediately bounded by a series of four 

 small lunulate white marks ; of the seven spots near hind-margin, 

 the upper three are inwardly, the lower four both inwardly and out- 

 wardly, black-edged ; anal-angular spot large, ovate, of a brighter tint 

 than the adjacent ochreous-yellow. 



Hecul black, with two large white spots on front, two smaller ones 

 on vertex, a white outer fringe bordering the eyes, and white palpi. 

 Thorax black, clothed above with white hair, except on collar, which 

 bears two white spots ; beneath with two large median and seven 

 good-sized lateral white spots on each side. Legs white, with the 

 femora above black. Abdomen above mesially black, relieved on each 

 side with white ; a conspicuous lateral band of ochreous-yellow from 

 close to base almost to extremity ; beneath white, with a gradually- 

 narrowing median black streak, the segmental incisions also marked 

 with well-defined transverse black streaks in basal half. 



