318 RHOPALOCERA AFRICtE AUSTRALIS. 



Exp. 1 in. 10 lin.— 2 In. 1 lin. 



i . Dull ochreous-brown. Fore-wing : an orange mark on 

 costa at base. Hhid-wing : much darker than fore-wing, 

 especially at anal angle, and clothed with (range hairs except 

 near costa and hind-margin ; cilia orange from anal angle 

 for more than half the extent of hind-margin, fading thence 

 into greyish. Under-side. — Tinged with bronz§d-green. 

 Fore-wi7uj : on inner-margin, about middle, a dull-whitish 

 space. Hind-wing : before anal angle, between third median 

 nervule and submedian nervure, an orange-red 7narking, 

 divided by a transverse black streak ; below this mark, an 

 orange spot on inner margin ; orange fringe as above. 



? . Rather paler ; the orange colouring much paler. 

 Under-side. — Fore-unng : no whitish space. 



This species is very like I. Batch, but the bright-orauge spots of Liud- 

 wing readily distinguish it. 



Port Natal.— Coll. Brit. Mus. et Coll. Tri. (Guienzius). 



213. Ismene Florestan. 



Papilio Forestan, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 391, f. E, F. 

 Le Papillon Forestan, Godt., Enc. Meih. — Ins. pi. 46, 



[f. 6. 

 Thymele Florestan, JBoisd., Fanne Ent. de Mad., p. 61. 

 Rhopalocampta Florestan, WaUgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 



[47. 

 ? Var. Rhopaloc. Valraaran, JFallgr., op cit., p. 48. 



Exp. 2 in. — 2 in. 



$ . Dull-grey Irown. Fore-zving : paler about middle ; 

 some greyish-yellow hairs at base and on inner-margin. 

 Hind-wing : much darker near anal angle ; central and inner- 

 marginal region thickly clothed with yellow ochreous hairs, 

 mixed with greyish near base. Under-side. — Smoother, 

 sometimes with a faint violaceous gloss. Fore-wing : a dull- 

 whitish space on inner-margin, usually ill-defined on its 

 edges. Hi7id-wing : darker than fore-wing, especially near 

 anal angle ; a broad, even, transverse, pure-white band from 

 costa to submedian nervure, where it is abruptly interrupted, 

 ending in a separate white spot close to inner-margin beyond 

 middle. Cilia on both sides grey, but orange-yeUoio on lobe 

 of anal angle. 



$ . Rather darker, especially on hind-wing, the central 

 colour of which is paler than in ^. Under-side.— As in 



