132 RHOPALOCERA AFRICi^ AUSTRALIS. 



79. Junonia Amestris. 



Papilio Amestris, Dru., III. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 20, f. 3, 4. 

 „ „ Herhst.,Bek.Im. — >S'cAwe^i.,VII, pi. 177, 



[f. 1, 2. 

 Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 117, n. 360. 



Papilio Zingha, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 117, n. 358. 



Vanessa Emma, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 315, n. 43. 



Vanessa Amestris, Godt., Enc. Meth., — SuppL, p. 807. 

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



Expands 2 in. 5 lin. — 2 in. 11 lin. 



Fore-wing rather sharply angulated on first discoidal 

 nervule : hind-wing with a small rounded projection at anal 

 angle. 



Black, dusted with pale-violet blue, and with blue transverse 

 bands ; a transverse band of red spots in both wings, near 

 hind-margin. Fore-wing : thickly irrorated with blue as far 

 as middle ; in discoidal cell the irrorations form three trans- 

 verse strias, separated from each other by streaks of the black 

 ground-colour; a waved, irregular, sometimes interrupted, 

 blue stripe crosses wing beyond middle, from costa to inner- 

 margin ; beyond it commences a transverse row of six spots 

 parallel to hind-margin — the first two spots being conspi- 

 cuously bluish-white and of small size — the remainder red (the 

 first of which is small, the other three large, and excavate 

 internally, where each is marked by a deep-black spot) ; be- 

 yond this row is another, of blue sub-lunulate spots ; a line 

 of thin blue lunules edge hind-margin : fringe black, white- 

 spotted in indentations Hind-wing : basal half dusted with 

 blue ; no strias in discoidal cell ,• beyond middle, the blue 

 and red stripes of fore-wing are continued across this wing to 

 inner-margin before anal angle — the blue stripe becoming in- 

 distinct in its lower portion — the red consisting of seven 

 conspicuous, internally black-dotted spots ; row of lunulate 

 spots and of hind-marginal lunules as in fore-wing, but larger; 

 fringe white-marked in indentations. Underside. — Glossy 

 greenish-bronze, with transverse blackish strice. Fore-wing: five 

 sinuate, black transverse strias in discoidal cell; a dull-blackish, 

 ill-defined fascia beyond it, quite across wing ; followed by 

 another, sharply-defined outwardly, and marking the inner 

 edge of the blue transverse stripe on upper-side ; parallel to 

 hind-margin, a row of small black rings (the third from costa 

 conspicuously filled ivifh white) ; inner-margin glossed with 

 purplish ; a dull-reddish stain near anal angle ; two rows of 

 indistinct blackisk lunules along hind-margin. Hind-wing : 

 much varied with ndistinct blackish fasciae in basal half ; a 



