120 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



beyond this stripe are three rows of spots parallel to hind- 

 margin — the first consisting of four or five rounded black spots 

 between nervules — the second of sub-lunular spots, sometimes 

 contiguous, between nervules (of which the fifth spot, at anal 

 angle, is the largest, and has its outer half pale-blue) — the 

 third of more or less rhomboidal spots on nervules, generally 

 united by their lateral angles ; fringe as in fore-wing. Un- 

 der-side. — Much paler than upper-side ; the hind-wing 

 exquisitely marbled. Fore-wing : base and costa whitish, 

 the former with a single blackish dot, the latter with numerous 

 short, minute, blackish, transverse strias as far as black spot 

 in discoidal cell ; salmon-red much paler than on upper-side, 

 particularly near hind-margin, but next base suffused tciih a 

 soft, pale-carmine tint; a whitish space in cell, beyond black 

 spot, and another whitish tint beyond cell, which is closed 

 by a black stria ; white spots as on upper-side, but apical 

 black replaced by yellow-ochreous, which extends along hind- 

 margin ; two blackish spots on hind-margin close to anal 

 angle ; and a more or less distinct row of blackish, outwardly 

 white-edged, lunules parallel to hind-margin. Hind-wing: 

 varied with white and various shades of yellow-ochreous, 

 nervures tvhite ; a conspicuous white space immediately be- 

 yond extremity of discoidal cell ; and three irregular, whitish 

 markings on costa ; two before, and one about, middle ; a 

 transverse, ochre-brown, white-edged mark in discoidal cell ; 

 and near it a larger, similar mark, divided into three by ner- 

 vules — its lower portion on disco-cellular nervule ; near, and 

 parallel to hind-margin, a row of five round, ocellated spots, 

 situate between nervules, from first subcostal to third median, 

 and variously coloured, viz. : the first, nearest costa, a simple, 

 ovate whitish spot, containing an ochreous dot — the second 

 blackish-centred, with sometimes a small blue pupil, ringed 

 ■with yellow and black — the third and fourth black, with a 

 large metallic-greenish lunule, and ringed with pale yellow — 

 the fifth larger than the rest, with a black, blue-lunuled 

 centre, in red, yellow, and black rings ; beyond these spots a 

 row of narrow, violet blue lunules, the largest next anal 

 angle and edged with black internally ; succeeded by a 

 parallel white stripe ; the hind-marginal border yellow- 

 ochreous. 



Larva. — Blackish, with numerous branched yellow spines ; 

 two faint-yellowish, longitudinal streaks along the back, and 

 a brighter yellow, broader, interrupted stripe on each side 

 above the legs ; head black ; segment next head not spined, 

 four spines on both third and fourth segments, seven on each 

 segment from fifth to twelfth, four on the last or anal seg- 



