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occasionally a reddish spot in discoidal cell, near its extremity ; 

 ochreous band of fore-wing continued broadly across this 

 wing to inner-margin, where it is adorned with a patch of 

 white hairs, and containing a row of five black dots between 

 first sub-costal, and third median, nervules ; a row of bluish 

 lunules as in fore-wing, and indications of an indistinct outer 

 row of the same, both rows ending in a large blue lunule at 

 anal angle, — the tail-like projection on which is also powdered 

 with blue scales. Under-side. — Dark-ochreous, varied with 

 dull-reddish, and with ashy-hluish transverse strias. Fore- 

 wing : transverse band well-indicated by a yellow stripe, with 

 a space of similar hue immediately beyond it, containing the 

 row of spots as on upper-side, but black, and the greater 

 portion white-centred ; before band are several irregular, 

 transverse, ashy-bluish striae ; and near and parallel to hind- 

 margin is a streak of the same colour. Hind-wing : band as 

 in fore-wing, the spots therein mostly white-centred ; pro- 

 jection at anal angle black, irrorated with blue. 



? . Similar in arrangement of marking ; hut the portion 

 of the transverse hand that in the $ is ochreous is in this sex 

 pale violaceous-bluish, forming a most striking contrast to the 

 red of its outer edge. Fore-wing : in many specimens, the 

 red of the band throws out a narrow macular stripe, from 

 first median nervule to costa close to apex, immediately 

 beyond the white spots. Under-side. — Redder, less varie- 

 gated than in $ , sometimes almost unicolorous, but the 

 markings similar in arrangement. 



The sexes of this handsome species present at first sight a very different 

 appearance, but this is entirely owing to the bizarre effect produced by the 

 violet-bluish tint in contrast with the red, in the transverse band of the 

 female. A short comparison will convince any-one of their specific identity. 

 Drury's figure of the ? Pelarga is too highly coloured ; and his represen- 

 tation of the under-side shows a variety remarkably devoid of the 

 characteristic markings, with the exception of the yellow streak indicating 

 the internal edge of the transverse band. 



Zoolu ? West Africa. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Port Natal."— Boisd. in Deleg. 



83. Junonia Cloantha. 



Papilio Cloantha, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 338, f. A. B. 

 Papilio Cloanthe, Herhst, Bek. Ins. — Schmett., pi. 176, 



[f. 3, 4. 

 Vanessa Cloantha, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 322, n. 61. 

 Salamis Cloantha, Boisd., App. Foy. de Deleg.,p.59l. 

 Vanessa Cloantha, Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. — Pap., pi. 



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