86 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC.E AUSTRALIS. 



marginal edge ; a conspicuous white spot on costa at base, 

 which is pitchy-black. Fringes of both wings white-spotted. 

 On the upper-side of hind-wing, on either side of submedian 

 nervure, is a conspicuous, smooth space, near anal angle, 

 about one-third of the whole length of the wing. Its ap- 

 pearance seems to be due to a different arrangement, or 

 partial denudation of scales. 



This is a very handsome and conspicuous Buttei'fly. It is allied to 

 D. Echeria. 



Natal.— Coll. S. A. Mus. et Coll. C. W. Hewitson, Esq. 

 ** Bay of Port Natal. Zanzibar." — Boisd. 



55. Danais Echeria. 



Papilio Echeria, Stoll, Suppl. Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 29, 



[f. 2, 2 b. 



Amauris Echeria, Huhn, Verz. Beh. Schmett., p. 14, n. 68. 



Danais Vaillantiana, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 183, n. 25. 



Euploea Echeria, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 589. 



Expands 2 in. 9 lin. — 3 in. 2 lin. 



Deep velvety -black; with pale ochrey-yellow and white spots. 

 Fore-wing : in discoidal cell, a little beyond its middle, a 

 narrow, elongate, irregularly shaped, oblique, yellow spot ; 

 below cell, and in a line with the last-named spot (but 

 a little beyond it), between second and third median nervules, 

 a conspicuous, oval, large spot, — the largest on the wing ; at 

 extremity of cell, but above sub-costal nervure, a small yellow 

 spot ; a little beyond, and in a line with it, close to costa, a 

 yellow dot is the first of a row of four spots, obliquely cross- 

 ing apical portion of wing to near hind-margin, of which the 

 second and third are the largest, and somewhat quadrate in 

 form, and the fourth is near hind-margin, immediately beneath 

 first median nervule ; two small, white spots near apex, 

 that nearest costa being often split into two by the third sub- 

 costal nervule ; near hind-margin, a small yellow spot beneath 

 second median nervule, and another similar spot below third 

 median nervule ; in some specimens, on hind-margin about 

 middle, and more rarely near apex, a few, minute, yellow or 

 white dots ; fringe narrow, white dotted. Hind-ioing ; on 

 costa, about middle, commences a yellow band, which at first 

 extends to extremity of discoidal cell, whence it abruptly 

 turns almost at right angles, and in a suddenly much broadened 

 form, to inner-margin, of which it occupies the greater portion, 

 — it is divided into nine unequal portions by the nervures 

 crossing it ; near hind-margin a row of yellow spots parallel 

 to it, varying from three to nine in number ; on submedian 

 nervure, near anal angle (in many specimens) a smooth, shining 



