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fringe white, spotted with black at extremities of nervules. 

 Underside. — Very different, much paler ; the apical portion 

 of fore-wing, and whole of hind-wing, being greyish, varied 

 with clay-broivn. Fore-wing : ground-colour blackish ; dis- 

 coidal cell pale orange-reddish, crossed by two pale-bluish 

 striffi, edged on both sides with black ; a black streak marks ex- 

 tremity of cell, and is outwardly bounded by a bluish one ; the 

 three outermost striae, viz. : two bluish and one red, prolonged 

 a little below cell ; large creamy- white marks as on upper-side, 

 but smaller apical marks obsolete, or very indistinct ; a thin 

 brownish line from costa close to apex to hind-marginal 

 creamy-white marking ; two ocellated spots very indistinct, 

 the upper one sometimes obsolete. Hind-wing : an irregular, 

 wavy, brown or ferruginous-brown streak crosses wing, from 

 costa to submedian nervure, before middle ; beyond middle, 

 two dentate, brown, transverse streaks, running parallel to 

 hind-margin, enclose a pale clay-brown, rather broad band, 

 usually irregularly-varied with dark- or ferruginous-brown, 

 and containing more or less distinct traces of a row of five 

 ocelli, consisting of blackish dots in brown rings, situate 

 between second subcostal and third median nervules ; hind- 

 margin bordered with a lunulate line, slightly darker than the 

 ground-colour. 



? . Differs but slightly from $ ; not so black in ground- 

 colour, Fore-wifig : red striae in cell paler, duller, but more 

 distinct ; two ocelli larger, more conspicuous. Hind-wing : 

 blue spot not so brilliant, often much smaller ; ocellate spots 

 large, very conspicuous. Under-side. — Fore-wing : blue 

 and red transverse streaks crossing discoidal cell prolonged 

 almost to submedian nervure ; apical markings more distinct. 

 Hind-wing : usually more strongly marked ; ocelli in band 

 more consincuous. 



This beautiful species, so closely allied to (Enone, yet so thoroughly dis- 

 tinct, seems confined to Africa and the adjoining island of Madagascar. 

 J. €Enone being recognised as sometimes occurring vvithout the blue spot in 

 the hind-wing^l do not consider that Boisduval's species Epiclelia can hold 

 good, considering that it is founded on the absence of the spot referred to, 

 in certain female specimens taken in Madagascar, which were also con- 

 siderably smaller than the ordinary examples. Boisduval, indeed, expresses 

 his opinion that it may be but " a local modification " of CIdIa ; and the 

 figure given on plate 7 of the " Faune Entomologique de Madagascar, &c.," 

 confirms this idea. 



Natal. King William's Town (W. S. M. D'Urban).— Coll. 

 mihi. 



Natal.— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Port Natal. Congo. Ashanti. Sierra Leone. Mada- 

 gascar.^ — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



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