72 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



? . Ground-colour much the same as in $ , sometimes 

 rather darker, the pink lustre much fainter than in $ ; hindt 

 margiiial hands spotted with yellow. Fore-wing : base blacker 

 than in $ , shading off into dusky-greenish, which extends 

 along costa to hind-marginal band, and to before middle of 

 inner-margin ; disco-cellular spot rounder and usually rather 

 larger ; hind-marginal band usually rather broader and blacker 

 than in $ , containing six or seven sulphur-yellow spots ; five 

 of which form a curved row near apex, from costa to first 

 median nervule (the first three of these are elongate, the two 

 others rounded) ; another, always present, between second 

 and third median nervules ; and the seventh spot, generally 

 indistinct, and often wanting, immediately below third median 

 nervule. Hind-wing : wholly suffused with dusky -greenish ; 

 disco-cellular orange spot more conspicuous than in $ ; hind- 

 marginal black band not so dark as in fore-wing, not well- 

 defined on its inner edge, in some specimens extending 

 almost to submedian nervure, in others only to second median 

 nervule, often spotless, but sometimes containing on its inner 

 side from three to five pale-yello(v spots (those nearer anal 

 angle becoming merged with the ground-colour). Under- 

 side. — Usually somewhat deeper in colour than that of $ , 

 but similarly marked. Fore-wing : ochreous-yellow ground- 

 colour darker, not paler on inner-margin. Hind-wing : 

 transverse row of ferruginous spots not so conspicuous. In 

 both sexes, down on forehead and front of thorax, antenna, 

 legs, and costal edges of a reddish-pink colour ; fringes varied 

 with pink above, wholly pink beneath. 



Var. ? (figured by Cramer). — Orange-yellow ground- 

 colour replaced hy greyish- white. Fore-wing : dusky -grey 

 suffusion from base forms a conspicuous basal patch, abruptly 

 ending a little before extremity of discoidal cell ; disco- 

 cellular spot often much larger than in ordinary specimens ; 

 spots in hind-marginal band conspicuous from their whiteness. 

 Hind-wing : the whole or greater part suffused with grey ; 

 disco-cellular spot whitish, centred with yellowish ; hind- 

 marginal spots in band whitish, variable in distinctness. 

 Under-side. — Fore-iving : basal portion, costa to beyond 

 middle, and all but apical portion of hind-marginal band, 

 lluish-grey ; apical portion of band dull greenish-yellow, 

 or yellowish-green ; black spots as in ordinary specimens. 

 Hind-wing : marked as usual ; but of the same dull mixture 

 of yellow and green as apical colouring of fore-wing. An- 

 tennae, legs, margins, and fringes, pi7ik as in the common 

 fxamples. 



SeQond J\ir. ? . — A specimen of this sex taken by me 



