130 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC.E AUSTRALIS. 



Natal — " universally." — Boisd. 



Butterworth, KafFraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. S. A, Muh% 



77. Junonia Octavia. 



Papilio Octavia, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 135, f. B, C. 



Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 120, n. 369. 

 ,, ,, Herhst.,Bek.Ins. — Schmett.,Y\\,^\.\&Qy 



[f. 3, 4. 



Precis Octavia, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. SS. 



Vanessa Octavia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 3)^2, n. 60. 

 ,, ,, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 592. 



Expands 2 in. — 2 in. 5 lin. 



Salmon-red, inclining to brick-red, with black borders and 

 spots. Fore-wing : base rather broadly blackish, especially 

 on inner-margin, extending as far as middle ; costa bordered 

 v^^ith black, narrowest about middle, becoming broad and 

 suffused at apex ; a broad, black, transverse stria in discoidal 

 cell unites costal and inner-marginal black, leaving a spot of 

 ground-colour between it and base ; a similar, more waved, 

 rather narrower streak occupies extremity of discoidal cell ; 

 a moderately-broad black border along hind-margin, con- 

 taining two rows of small bluish lunules, — the outer row 

 generally ill-defined, the inner almost always distinct ; imme- 

 diately beneath apical black is the first of a row of five round 

 black spots parallel to hind-margin, between nervules, from 

 first discoidal nervule to sub-median nervure ; fringe black, 

 conspicuously spotted with white. Hind-ioing : base broadly 

 blackish, extending in a broad band to middle of costa, 

 where it ends abruptly, immediately below the termination 

 of the inner-marginal black in fore-wing, occupying inner 

 half of discoidal cell, and extending, less distinctly, parallel 

 to sub-median nervure ; a black streak, sometimes united to 

 costal black, at extremity of cell ; along hind-margin, a black 

 border similar to that m fore-wing, but broader, — its two rows 

 of bluish lunules usually more distinct than in fore-wing ; 

 a row of six round black spots, parallel to hind-mar- 

 ginal border, is continuous of that in fore-wing, extending 

 from costa to third median nervule ; towards inner-margin is 

 a clothing of silky, ochreous hairs ; fringe as in fore-wing. 

 Under-side. — Much paler, more creamy in tint, with a 

 glistening pinkish tinge ; black markings very similar to those 

 of upper-side. Fore-iving : a tinge of pale-yelloiv on costa, 

 particularly near apex, where there is no broad, blackish 

 sufiusion ; the row of spots parallel to hind-margin com- 

 mencing distinctly from costa, the first two spots increasing 

 the number to seven ; double row of bluish lunules more 



