154 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC/E AUSTRALIS. 



crossed by two nervules, close to apex. Hind-wing : a large, 

 central, circular, white marking, violet-ringed like those in 

 fore-wing ; two or three small, indistinct, thin, bluish lunules, 

 close to anal angle. Fringes of both wings very short, black, 

 varied with white in indentations of margin. Under-side. 

 ■ — Fore-wing : large white markings as on upper-side, but not 

 violet-ringed ; costa thinly dusted with white as far as larger 

 white marking ; three small, white spots immediately below 

 subcostal nervure ; a space of rich chocolate-red, from base, 

 occupies nearly whole of cell, extending a little below it ; 

 apical portion shining brownish-ochreous ; white spot at 

 apex commencing a row of white dots, parallel to hind-mar- 

 gin, — only a few of which are apparent ; two parallel rows 

 of conspicuous white lunules along hind-margin, which is 

 black ; immediately before larger white marking, and some- 

 times touching it, is a small, narrow, irregularly-shaped, 

 white mark, on costa. Hind-wing : shining brownish-ochre- 

 ous ; tinged with chocolate red near anal angle, and on costa 

 near base ; large central spot extended into a very broad, 

 white, median band, from costa to inner-margin, edged with 

 black imvardly from costal nervure, and containing an 

 elongate, black spot, close to costa a little beyond middle, 

 and a black streak on inner- margin before anal angle ; hind- 

 marginal black broader than in fore-wing, its two rows of 

 white lunules larger and more conspicuous ; parallel to hind- 

 margin, a row of rather distinct white dots. 



$. Dull reddish-ochreous. For e -wing : apical half of wing 

 blackish, narrowing to a very thin bordering at base and anal 

 angle, containing an oblique, pure-white stripe from costa, 

 consisting of four moderate-sized spots (of which the lowest 

 is separate from the rest) and almost reaching hind-margin ; 

 two rows of whitish lunules border hind-margin, as on under- 

 side of $ , but not so distinct ; close to apex, a narrow, white 

 stripe, composed of three small spots, almost parallel to the 

 larger stripe, with a white dot a little below it. Hind-tving : 

 a dusky-blackish spot on costa, a liitle beyond middle, as in ^ , 

 but much broader ; a rather narrow, blackish border to hind- 

 margin, containing a row of more or less distinct, whitish 

 lunules, and the indications of a similar row before the outer 

 one ; faint-bluish tinge at anal angle as in $ . Underside. — 

 Considerably like that of S , particularly the fore-wing. 

 Fore-tving : white stripes as on tipper-side; white spots below 

 subcostal nervure as in $ ; dull-red from base much paler than 

 in $ , tinged with ochreous, and occupying whole of inner- 

 margin (where it is very pale), only leaving a narrow band of 

 blackish, from base to anal angle, before larger white stripe ; 



