NYMPHALIDii;. 135 



" Pluto's Valley, Graham's Town."— W. S. M. D'Urban, 

 in litt. 



Butterworth, KaiFraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 " Moselekatze's Country." — Boisd. 



81. Junonia Pelasgis. 



Vanessa Pelasgis, GodL, Enc. Meth., IX, p. 820, n. 389. 



Expands 2 in. 1 lin. — 2 in. 4 lin. 



Fore-wing but slightly angulated at extremity of first 

 discoidal nervule, projection at extremity of third median 

 nervule not so prominent as in Archesia ; hind-wing with anal 

 angle produced, but not so pointedly as in Archesia. 



Dark-brown ; beyond middle, a pale-ochreous band tinged 

 with salmon-red crossing both wings. Fore-wing : some dull- 

 reddish scales on costa near base ; two irregular, sometimes 

 half-obliterated, dull-red transverse strise in discoidal cell — 

 the inner stria externally, the outer internally, edged with a 

 blue- dotted black line ; a thin black line, inwardly edged 

 with blue, at extremity of cell, and a more indistinct, similar 

 stria a little beyond it ; pale-ochreous band bifid on costa, the 

 outer ray being very much narrower than the inner, macular, 

 and more or less interrupted ; immediately before the outer 

 ray of the band are the first three of a transverse row of 

 six white-centred black spots, parallel to hind-margin, of 

 which the remaining three (as in the allied species) are in the 

 ochreous band, near its outer edge — the last spot being above 

 submedian nervure ; close to hind-margin are two rows of 

 lunular markings, scarcely paler than ground-colour, but the 

 inner row more or less coloured with bluish scales ; fringe 

 brown, white-spotted in indentations of margin. Hind-wing : 

 ochreous band continued across this wing, beyond middle, to 

 a little before anal angle, on inner-margin, and containing 

 five black dots, not white-centred, between first subcostal, 

 and third median, nervules ; two indistinct, slightly paler in 

 tint, lunulate streaks, divided by a streak darker than ground- 

 colour, border hind-margin ; at anal angle is a faint-bluish 

 mark ; fringe as in fore-wing. Under-side.— Of a darker, 

 duller brown than above ; the transverse band very conspi- 

 cuous, white, with a creamy tint on its edges, and with a faint 

 violaceous lustre. Fore-ioing : some scarcely distinguishable, 

 thin, dark, transverse lines in cell ; between which lines are 

 occasionally a few scattered whitish scales ; row of spots con- 

 spicuous, the lowest one geminate ; apex more or less clouded 

 with white scales ; double row of lunules distincter than on 

 upper-side, some of them marked with white scales. Hind- 



