130 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



Natal" universally." Boisd. 



Butterworth, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. S. A. Mus, 



77. Junonia Octavia. 



Papilio Octavia, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 135, f. B, C. 



Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 120, n. 369. 

 Herbst., Bek. Ins.Schmett.,Vll, pi. 166, 



[f. 3, 4. 



Precis Octavia, Hubn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 33. 



Vanessa Octavia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 3%2, n. 60. 

 ,, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 592. 



Expands 2 in. 2 in. 5 lin. 



Salmon-red, inclining to brick-red, with black borders and 

 spots. Fore-wing : base rather broadly blackish, especially 

 on inner-margin, extending as far as middle ; costa bordered 

 with black, narrowest about middle, becoming broad and 

 suffused at apex ; a broad, black, transverse stria in discoidal 

 cell unites costal and inner-marginal black, leaving a spot of 

 ground-colour between it and base ; a similar, more waved, 

 rather narrower streak occupies extremity of discoidal cell ; 

 a moderately-broad black border along hind-margin, con- 

 taining two rows of small bluish lunules, the outer row 

 generally ill-defined, the inner almost always distinct ; imme- 

 diately beneath apical black is the first of a row of five round 

 black spots parallel to hind-margin, between nervules, from 

 first discoidal nervule to sub-median nervure ; fringe black, 

 conspicuously spotted with white. Hind-wing : base broadly 

 blackish, extending in a broad band to middle of costa, 

 where it ends abruptly, immediately below the termination 

 of the inner-marginal black in fore-wing, occupying inner 

 half of discoidal cell, and extending, less distinctly, parallel 

 to sub-median nervure ; a black streak, sometimes united to 

 costal black, at extremity of cell ; along hind-margin, a black 

 border similar to that in fore-wing, but broader, its two rows 

 of bluish lunules usually more distinct than in fore-wing ; 

 a row of six round black spots, parallel to hind-mar- 

 ginal border, is continuous of that in fore-wing, extending 

 from costa to third median nervule ; towards inner-margin is 

 a clothing of silky, ochreous hairs ; fringe as in fore-wing. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Much paler, more creamy in tint, with a 

 glistening pinkish tinge ; black markings very similar to those 

 of upper-side. Fore-wing : a tinge of pale-yellow on costa, 

 particularly near apex, where there is no broad, blackish 

 suffusion ; the row of spots parallel to hind-margin com- 

 mencing distinctly from costa, the first two spots increasing 

 the number to seven ; double row of bluish lunules more 



