84 RHOPALOCERA AFRKLE AUSTRALIS. 



below extremity of cell. Hind-wing : along hind-margin, a 

 row of whitish spots, commencing at anal angle, and becoming 

 obsolete at some distance from apex. UNDERSIDE. Rather 

 paler than upperside. Fore-wing : a bluish- white spot in 

 discoidal cell near its extremity ; and, a little beyond cell, a 

 curved row of five similar spots, commencing on costa, the 

 lowest dot being on a line with median nervure. Hind-wing : 

 dot in discoidal cell, and curved row of five dots beyond it, 

 arranged as in fore-wing, but the first of the curved row is at 

 some little distance from costa ; hind-marginal spots more 

 conspicuous than on upperside 



LARVA. "Mouse-grey, with eight fleshy, filiform processes, 

 of which two very long ones are near the head, two are on 

 the last segment, and the remaining two pairs situate between 

 the first pair and the last, on the segments of the back. Some 

 blue dots on the sides of the body. 



Found commonly in June on Oleanders (Nerium}." 



PUPA. " Resembles a golden bubble, extremely brilliant ; 

 the Imago is disclosed on the fifteenth day." Boisd., Faune 

 de Mad., &c., p. 36. 



South Africa. Zoolu.- Coll. Brit. Mus. 



" Bourbon. Found very commonly." Boisd. 



Genus DANAIS. 



Danais, Latr. 



Euplcea (pars), Boisd., Hiibn. 



Amauris (pars), Htibn. 



IMAGO. Antenna moderately long, distinctly though 

 gradually clavate. Fore-wings markedly produced at apex into 

 a rounded projection, making the hind-marginal outline 

 considerably concave. Hind-iuings less rounded than in 

 JEuplcea, the anal angle being much more acute. Abdomen 

 almost of equal thickness throughout. 



LARVA. A pair of long filamentous organs on the third 

 segment; a similar pair of shorter ones on the twelfth segment ; 

 sometimes a third pair on the sixth segment. 



PUPA. Short, thick, smooth, ornamented with golden 

 dots. 



The insects of this genus, like the Euplcea, have the head 

 and thorax spotted with white. The three South African 

 species are very easily distinguished by their colouring, though 

 the arrangement of markings is very similar in all. D. Chry- 

 sippus is of a dull red-ochre, with white spotted, black 

 borders. D. Echeria and D. Ochlea are both black in 

 ground-colour, but the latter may at once be known by the 



