122 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



marked ; hind-margin moderately sinuate, the fringe in the 

 hollows of the indentations white. Hind-wing : an ochre- 

 yellow band, narrower than, but almost continuous of, that 

 in fore-wing, borders hind-margin as far as first median 

 nervule, at the extremity of which is a prolongation of the 

 hind-margin into a slender tail about 3 lines in length, 

 blackish, with an ochreous tip; the third median nervule 

 also supports a much shorter, pointed, black tail, about 1 line 

 long ; between longer tail and anal angle, some contiguous, 

 bluish, lunular marks. UNDERSIDE. Fore-wing : ground- 

 colour dull brownish-black ; transverse ochre-yellow band 

 much paler than on upper-side ; apical portion varied with 

 ferruginous and brownish-ochreous ; in discoidal cell, near 

 base, a black, ferruginous-centred spot, in a bluish-white 

 ring ; beyond it, its outer edge touching transverse 

 band, a similarly coloured transverse marking, the white 

 edges of which are irregularly prolonged to submedian 

 nervure ; a little beyond band, and bordering disco-cellular 

 nervule, a pale-ferruginous marking ; apical markings of 

 white similar to those of upper-side but within the white 

 transverse streak from costa is a parallel bluish streak ; hind- 

 margin ferruginous-ochreous, with an inner bluish streak 

 formed of contiguous lunules. Hind-wing : ground-colour 

 dull-blackish, varied beautifully with ferruginous-brown 

 markings, and bluish and black waved streaks ; two ferru- 

 ginous-brown spots in cell, one close to base, rounded the 

 other about middle of cell, elongate ; the latter spot forming 

 a continuation of a streak of the same colour above it, from 

 subcostal nervure ; a band of ferruginous-brown, divided 

 into three by nervules (as in P. Cardui}, bounds extremity of 

 discoidal cell ; all these brown markings are thinly and indis- 

 tinctly edged with bluish-white ; near inner-margin and base 

 are numerous sprinklings of bluish scales, in some places 

 forming short ziczac lines ; parallel to hind-margin is a ferru- 

 ginous-brown, waved streak, inwardly bordered by a black 

 one; hind-marginal ochreous band indicated by a reddish- 

 ochreous tint ; within which is a festooned black line of 

 united lunules, inwardly edged with bluish the lunule be- 

 tween second and third median nervules pupittate, and 

 approaching the form of an ocellate spot ; within hind-mar- 

 ginal edge, a blackish, interrupted streak. 



$ . Black not of so deep a tint as in $ ; ochre-yellow 

 bands paler, broader. Fore-wing : white spots near apex 

 larger ; the lower spot, of the three forming transverse cos- 

 tal streak, more separate from the other two than in $ . 

 Hind-wing : ochreous hind-marginal band much broader than 



