138 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



Brighter or duller tvarm orange-ochreous ; with transverse 

 black streaks, and blue-centred black ocelli. 



$ . A splendid purple lustre, strongest over basal half of 

 wings, is visible in certain lights. Fore-wing : base clouded 

 with black, narrowly so on costa, more widely on median 

 nervure, and extending nearly to middle on inner-margin ; 

 two moderately-broad, transverse, black streaks in discoidal 

 cell, the outer one closing cell : a similar streak beyond 

 middle, between sub-costal nervure and first median nervule, 

 which, interrupted on the latter nervule, is continued thence 

 by an irregular streak, inclining inwardly, to sub-median 

 nervure, where it joins the black clouding from base ; in some 

 distinctly-marked specimens, the streak closing cell is also, 

 though interrupted at insertion of second median nervule, 

 produced to join basal black ; beyond the striae, a black mark 

 on costa commences a row of six black, blue-centred ocelli, 

 of which the first three are contiguous, the largest and lowest 

 ocellus being between second and third median nervules, — 

 the line of spots being parallel to hind-margin ; beyond ocelli, 

 a transverse, thin, interrupted, macular, black streak, broader 

 and more continuous on costa and close to anal angle ; costa 

 and hind-margin closely hatched with very thin, minute, short, 

 transverse lines ; occasionally, this hatching is wanting on 

 hind-margin, when there is an irregular black streak closely 

 bordering hind-marginal edge. Hind-wing : more or less 

 broadly clouded with black at base, the black occupying most 

 of discoidal cell, at extremity of which is a sub-ovate black 

 spot ; this spot is occasionally united to basal black by a thin, 

 black line along discoidal nervule ; near and parallel to hind- 

 margin, a row of six ocelli similar to those of fore-wing, but 

 much larger (except the ocellus next anal angle, which is 

 always small, and sometimes very minute), situate between 

 nervules from first subcostal to submedian nervure ; macular 

 streak of fore-wing continued across this wing, in a more 

 lunulate form, dusted with bluish scales, and ending in a 

 thickly blue-dusted mark at anal angle ; specimens possessing 

 the exterior hind-marginal streak in fore-wing, have it like- 

 wise bordering hind-marginal edge of hind-wing. Fringes of 

 both wings hoary-greyish. Under-side. — Paler or darker 

 dull ochreous-brown (rarely pale greyish-ochreous), the 

 markings of upper-side narrowly and faintly reproduced in 

 slatey-black. Fore-wing : no basal black ; some short, strong, 

 pale-yellowish hairs on costa near base ; striae in discoidal cell 

 outlined only with slatey-black, but darker than ground-colour 

 ocelli mostly indistinctly marked, not blue- centred, but with 

 a few, minute, pale-yelloivish hairs springing from their centres; 



