NYMPHALID^. 133 



blackish streak, enclosing a greenish line, at extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell ; a much-dentated, irregular black line continues 

 the well-defined one oi fore -wing to inner-margin before anal 

 angle ; also, a row of five or six little black rings, continuous 

 of that oi fore-wing , as far as third median nervule ; two rows 

 of blackish lunules along hind-margin, less distinct than in 

 fore-wing, but ending in a black mark at anal angle. 



The South African specimens, referred to the species Amestris, present 

 several differences in marking from the typical West African examples ou 

 which Drury founded the species. In the latter, the basal portion of the 

 wings is not irrorated with blue ; two of the striae in discoidal cell of fore- 

 wing are red, or tinged with red ; the bands of spots are more irregularly 

 waved ; and the under-side is a good deal varied with greyish, with the 

 bands of red spots often tolerably well-marked — though very much fainter 

 and duller than above. 



The contrast of red and blue in this handsome Junonia is very striking, 

 and renders it impossible ever to mistake the insect. The blue irroration 

 on the basal half of the wings, in the Natal specimens, greatly adds to 

 their beauty ; the latter apparently attain a larger size than those of West 

 Africa. 



Natal,— Coll. mihi, et Coll. S. A. Mus. 



British KaiFraria.— Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban.* 



Butterworth, Kaffi-aria (J. H. Bowker).— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



West Africa. Sierra Leone. Port Natal. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



** Moselekatze's Country." — Boisd., in Deleg. 



80. Junonia Archesia. 



Papilio Archesia, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 219, f. D, E. 

 „ „ Herhst,Bek.Ins. — Schmett.^l\,^\.\15, 



[f. 5, 6. 

 „ „ Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 119, n. 363. 



Apatura Archesia, Hiihn, Ferz. Bek. Schmett., p. 35, n. 304. 



Vanessa Archesia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 316, n. 47. 



Salamis Archesia, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 591. 



Expands 2 in. 4 lin. — 2 in. 5 lin. 



Fore-wing more sharply angulated than in Amestris, and 

 also with a further marked projection of outline on third 

 median nervule : hind-wing much produced and elongated at 

 anal angle. 



Warm-brown, with a tinge of ochreous ; fore-wing with 

 blue strice, and a dull-red band crossing both loings. Fore- 

 wing : three bluish, slender, transverse strias, edged with 

 black, in discoidal cell : a broader, sometimes ill-defined, in- 

 wardly black-edged, bluish streak, from costa just beyond 

 extremity of cell ; a whitish-violaceous stripe from costa 



* " March to May. Said to be the commonest Butterfly in the Trans- 

 keian country." — D'Urban, in litt. Mr. Bowker's numerous captures of 

 this lovely insect at Butterworth appear to confirm the above remark. 



