134 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



beyond middle becomes merged, on first median nervule, with 

 a dull ochreous-red band parallel to hind-margin ; this red' 

 band commences on costa, close to apex, with a narrow 

 macular streak of dark -red (sometimes half-obliterated) ; a 

 row of seven pale-bluish spots — all conspicuously white- 

 centred except the first (and rarely the fifth) — parallel to 

 hind-margin, four spots being before the dark-red streak from 

 costa, and three in the red band ; bordering hind-margin are 

 two more or less distinct, lunulate, blue streaks ; fringe duU- 

 whitish, spotted with brown at extremities of nervules. Hind- 

 wing : dull-red band, continuous of that in fore-ioing, 

 completely crosses wing from costa to inner-margin a little 

 before anal angle, and contains five small, bluish-wliite, black- 

 ringed spots, between first subcostal and third median nervules ; 

 a slightly darker shade externally bounds red band ; and a 

 dark-brown, dentated streak runs between band and hind- 

 margin ; anal angle irrorated with pale-blue scales ; fringe as 

 in fore-wing , but the brown marks not so distinct. Under- 

 side. — Dark-hrown (varied with lighter-hrnwn, and crossed 

 hy transverse greyish fascice) to beyond middle of both wings ; 

 where, in place of the dull-red band of the tipper-side, is a 

 whitish-ochreous one — the inner fork of the band, on costa, 

 being the whitest portion — tinged with reddish or ochreous, 

 particularly in hind-wing, and generally ill-defined outwardly ; 

 the row of spots common to both wings smaller than on 

 upper-side, without bluish tinge, whitish, in brown rings ; 

 hind-margins varied irregularly with whitish-grey, particularly 

 at apices and anal angles ; two dark-brown, lunulate streaks 

 more or less distinct and continuous, border hind-margins, 

 the streaks in hind-wing occupying the same position as on 

 upper-side ; fringes duller than on upper-side. 



The alliance between this elegant species and /. Amestris is beautifully 

 evident on a comparison of the two insects — especially with regard to the 

 fore-wing. J. Archesia is rather rare in collections, the specimens I know 

 of having been brought from Natal only.* Cramer and Herbst both give 

 Batavia in Java as its habitat ; but it is probable that the Dutch may have 

 obtained the species at the Cape on their homeward voyages from the East, 

 and that it became confounded with their collections of Indian insects, la 

 the Appendix to M. Delegorgue's Travels in South Africa, no remarks are 

 made as to the rarity or plenty in which this species is found ; the locality 

 only is stated. 



Natal.— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



South Africa.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



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



* Since taken in British Kaffraria, by Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban ; and in 

 Kaffraria Proper by Mr. J. H. Bowker. " Fond of rocky situations -. 

 February to April."— D'Urban, MS. 



