S6 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



S . White ; with blackish markings. Fore-wing : a curved 

 black streak at extremity of discoidal cell, thickest at its 

 lower end ; a black band on hind-margin narrowing to a 

 point at anal angle, and containing, in the half near apex, 

 six elongate, somewhat triangular, whitish marks ; base with 

 a pearly gloss. Hind-wing : a black border to hind-margin, 

 intersected with white ; a pearly gloss at base. Under- 

 side. — Similar in marking ; faintly tinged with yellowish. 

 Fore-wing : spots in hind-marginal band larger and more dis- 

 tinctly defined. Hind-wing : slightly yellower than fore- 

 wing ; all the nervures clouded with blackish ; costa and 

 submedian nervure tinged from base with chrome-yellow ; 

 a yellow mark about middle of inner margin ; a blackish 

 transverse stripe from extremity of discoidal cell to a little 

 beyond middle of submedian nervure. 



? . Varies from yellowish-white to dull-yelloioish ; mark- 

 ings similar to $ , hut all broader. Fore-wing : curved band 

 at extremity of discoidal cell connected with base by a black 

 costal stripe ; spots in hind-marginal band small and ill- 

 defined, sometimes entirely wanting. Hind-wing : a small 

 spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; beyond middle, on costa, 

 a blackish marking, sometimes united to hind-marginal band ; 

 the latter contains four slightly-rounded spots, which are 

 sometimes wholly obliterated. Under-side. — Fore-wing : 

 spots near apex in hind-marginal band, of a lighter or deeper 

 chrome-yellow. Hind-toing : wholly chrome-yellow ; ner- 

 vures conspicuously black-clouded ; spots in hind-marginal 

 band yellow, some occasionally obsolete ; blackish streak 

 from discoidal cell to submedian nervure often indistinct or 

 wanting — a longitudinal black streak between the nervures 

 meets it at right angles when present. 



Larva. — Pale-yellow, greenish on the back ; a broad, 

 brownish, lateral stripe from head to tail ; head pinkish ; a 

 few short hairs near head and along the sides. 



Pupa. — Sharply angulated, slender, head beaked. Light- 

 brown, varied with darker-brown ; a white, pink-spotted, 

 longitudinal stripe on abdominal segments. Represented as 

 suspended to the stalk of some plant. 



The above descriptions of Larva and Pupa are made from figures in Plate 

 12, (f. 9, 9 a.), of Horsfield and Moore's Catalogue of Lepidoptera in the 

 East India Company's Museum, Vol. 1. The food-plant of the Larva is not 

 stated. 



This species is allied to P. Gidica. It is very variable in tint and mark- 

 ing. Two specinaens, apparently females, from Ceylon, in the South 

 African Museum, want the black band on upperside that connects the 

 disco-cellular stripe with base of fore-wing, though it is present on under- 

 side. 



