46 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALTS. 



Expands 1 in. G lin. — 1 in. 7 lin. 



Allied to A. Danae. 



$. White; ^vith crimson-red, violet-glossed apical patch. 

 Fore-ioing : apical marking margined outwardly by a narrow, 

 inwardly by a broad, blackish band, meeting a little above 

 anal angle ; a thin, indistinct blackish dot at extremity of 

 discoidal cell. Hind-wing : hind-margin narrowly edged 

 with black, which is sometimes so intersected with white as 

 to leave only spots at extremities of nervules. Under-side. 

 — Fore-wing : base tinged with lemon-yellow ; apical patch 

 pale ochreous, marked on its inner edge with a transverse 

 row of four blackish spots in ill-defined brick-red rings ; 

 disco-cellular dot more distinct than on upper-side ; on hind- 

 margin, a row of black dots at extemities of nervules. Hind' 

 wing : tinged with yellowish ; a red spot at extremity of 

 discoidal cell ; on costa, beyond middle, a reddish-grey 

 mark ; on hind-margin, a row of small black spots at ex- 

 tremities of nervules. 



? . Fore-wing : apical patch red, vnthout violet gloss, 

 with broader black margins, and divided by a sinuate band 

 of blackish spots, extending from costa to a little above and 

 beyond middle of inner-margin ; spot at extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell rather large and rounded. Hind-wing : a more or 

 less distinct disco-cellular spot ; beyond middle, a transverse 

 row of indistinct blackish spots, parallel to hind-margin ; 

 spots on hind-margin larger than in $ . Under-side. — 

 Similar to $ . Fore-wing : apical marking deeper in tint, 

 the spots crossing it larger than in $ , and the latter con- 

 tinued, as on upper-side, almost to inner-margin by a larger 

 spot. Hind-wing : yellower than fore-wing ; disco-cellular 

 spot pale-red, and black-margined ; a curved row of seven or 

 eight blackish spots, parallel to hind-margin, from costa 

 beyond middle to inner-margin ; black spots on hind-margin 

 at ends of nervules. 



Far. ? . — In the collection of the British Museum, from 

 South Africa. — All the black markings larger and more 

 shaded oif at edges ; red of apical marking almost wholly 

 obliterated. Under-side. — Hind-wing : spots forming trans- 

 verse band larger than usual, and of a dull pinkish-red 

 colour. 



South Africa. North India.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



29. Anthocharis Achine. 



Papilio Achine, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 338, f. E. F. 



„ „ Herbst, Ins. — Schviett., V, pi. 95, f. 9, 10. 



Aphrodite Achine, Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett., Band 1. 



