1.16 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC.E AUSTRALIS. 



tips of the festoons do not always touch the hind-marginal 

 spots (which are more rhomboidal in form than those of fore- 

 wing), and the line between the festoons and spots is not 

 straight as in fore-wing, but composed of united, thin, 

 lunular streaks ; within festooned line, and parallel to hind- 

 margin, but beyond extremity of discoidal cell, a row of four 

 or five rounded, black spots, variable in size, between nervules, 

 the first spot immediately below first subcostal nervule, the 

 fifth below third median nervule ; on costa, beyond middle, 

 is an irregular, black streak, sometimes indistinctly continued 

 across wing to inner-margin by disconnected, short, blackish 

 lines. Underside. — Somewhat glossy, as in many of the 

 Acroece ; pale yellow-ochreous, varied with dull-violet ; the 

 black markings mostly thin, and dimmer than above, or 

 replaced by brownish-ochreous. Fore-iving : discoidal cell, 

 and central portion of hind-margin, glossed with violet; trans- 

 verse streaks in cell much thinner than above, but very distinct; 

 costal streak next cell ill-defined, or indicated by two or three 

 black dots; spots immediately below median nervure black, 

 and rather conspicuous ; costal streak beyond middle brown- 

 ish-ochreous, — the row of spots continuous of it extending to 

 beneath third median nervule, and all brownish-ochreous, but 

 the lowest, which is black ; hind-marginal festoons and straight 

 streak only indicated by violaceous-grey and brownish-ochre- 

 ous markings, — no traces of spots at extremities of nervules ; 

 row of spots within festooned line usually very ill-defined, 

 blackish, — except the two lower ones, that next anal angle 

 being large, black, quadrate, and very conspicuous. Hind- 

 wing : an irregular, interrupted, brownish-ochreous streak, 

 from costa before middle to inner-margin beyond middle ; a 

 short, transverse streak of the same colour in discoidal cell ; a 

 more continuous, less irregular streak than the interrupted 

 one, crosses wing a little beyond the latter; the space between 

 it and the hind-marginal festooned line dull-violet, varied 

 with the pale ground-colour, and containing three or four ill- 

 defined black spots, in brownish-ochreous rings ; hind- 

 marginal lines brownish-ochreous ; no spots at extremity of 

 nervules. 



$ . Larger than $ , often with a greenish tinge (similar to 

 that of many ? s of the Genus Argynnis) ; and with the 

 black markings larger. Fore-wing : the row of spots, com- 

 mencing with an irregular, blackish mark, on costa beyond 

 middle, always continued to below third median nervule, 

 slightly beyond middle, and consisting of four spots. Under- 

 side. — Fore-ioing : the same row of spots more conspicuous 

 than in $ , being usually blackish. Hind-wing : the spots on 

 disc, in violet portion, generally larger and blacker. 



