140 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



84. Junonia Hecate. 



Junonia Hecate, miM. — N. Sp. 



Expands 2 in. 2 lin. — 2 in. 5 lin. 



Fore-wing moderately falcate, the projection of outline 

 being at extremity of first discoidal nervule, — at extremity 

 of third median nervule is also a moderate projection ; hind- 

 wing rather acutely angulated at extremity of discoidal 

 nervule, and produced considerably at anal angle into a blunt 

 process. 



Dull greyish-brown, with dull ochreous-red transverse strice 

 and ocellated spots ; four conspicuous, pure-white spots 

 near apex of fore-wing. Fore-wing : tv^^o ochreous-red, 

 blackish-edged striae across discoidal cell, the outer one closing 

 cell ; a broad space on costa, commencing a little beyond 

 extremity of cell, is much darker than rest of wing, and con- 

 tains three pure-white spots, arranged transversely from first 

 sub-costal, to first median, nervule ; a dark stripe, including 

 an indistinct dull-red one, extends from first median nervule, 

 immediately before the lowest white spot, to a little beyond 

 middle of inner-margin ; a small pure-white spot, on costa 

 close to apex, commences a row of blackish spots parallel to 

 hind-margin, between nervules, as far as sub-median nervure, 

 the two lowest spots the largest, and always surrounded by an 

 ochreous-red ring, wider on the inner-side, — the other spots 

 occasionally in indistinct smaller rings, — some of them 

 generally with minute bluish pupils ; beyond these ocellate 

 spots are t(vo dark -brown or blackish lunulate striae bordering 

 hind-margin ; fringe varied with white and brown. Hind-wing: 

 a transverse, dull ochreous-red, black-edged stria about middle 

 of discoidal cell, composed of two small spots, and a similar 

 stria at extremity of cell ; the dark stripe of fore-wing, 

 enclosing a dull-red one, is continued across this wing, 

 gradually narrowing towards inner-margin, where, a little 

 before anal angle, it becomes obsolete ; beyond it, a transverse 

 row of more or less conspicuous ochreous-red ocelli, with 

 blue-dotted black centres, five in number, situated between 

 first sub-costal nervule and submedian nervure, — the last spot 

 the largest and brightest, and in a distinct, thin, yellow ring ; 

 two dark-brown, lunulate streaks beyond ocelli, parallel to 

 hind-margin, but more continuous than in /ore-wm^, — darker 

 at anal angle, where there is a slight irroration of blue-grey 

 scales ; fringe brown, lightly marked with white. Under- 

 side. — Very variable : ground-colour commonly much paler 

 than on upper-side. — Fore-wing : an additional dull-red 

 mark in discoidal cell, at base ; three white spots beyond cell, 



