132 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



79. Junonia Amestris. 



Papilio Amestris, Dru., III. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 20, f. 3, 4. 

 Herbst.,eJc.Ins.Schmett.,Vll, pi. 177, 



[f. 1, 2. 

 Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 117, n. 360. 



Papilio Zingha, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 117, n. 358. 



Vanessa Emma, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 315, n. 43. 



Vanessa Amestris, Godt., Enc. Meth., Suppl., p. 807. 

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



Expands 2 in. 5 lin. 2 in. 11 lin. 



Fore-wing rather sharply angulated on first discoidal 

 nervule : hind-wing with a small rounded projection at anal 

 angle. 



Black, dusted with pale-violet blue, and with blue transverse 

 bands ; a transverse band of red spots in both wings, near 

 hind-margin. Fore-wing : thickly irrorated with blue as far 

 as middle ; in discoidal cell the irrorations form three trans- 

 verse striae, separated from each other by streaks of the black 

 ground-colour; a waved, irregular, sometimes interrupted, 

 blue stripe crosses wing beyond middle, from costa to inner- 

 margin ; beyond it commences a transverse row of six spots 

 parallel to hind-margin the first two spots being conspi- 

 cuously bluish-white and of small size the remainder red (the 

 first of which is small, the other three large, and excavate 

 internally, where each is marked by a deep-black spot) ; be- 

 yond this row is another, of blue sub-lunulate spots ; a line 

 of thin blue lunules edgeJiind-margin : fringe black, white- 

 spotted in indentations Hind-wing : basal half dusted with 

 blue ; no striae in discoidal cell ; beyond middle, the blue 

 and red stripes of fore-wing are continued across this wing to 

 inner-margin before anal angle the blue stripe becoming in- 

 distinct in its lower portion the red consisting of seven 

 conspicuous, internally black-dotted spots ; row of lunulate 

 spots and of hind-marginal lunules as in fore-wing, but larger; 

 fringe white-marked in indentations. UNDERSIDE. Glossy 

 greenish-bronze, with transverse blackish striae. Fore-wing: five 

 sinuate, black transverse striae in discoidal cell; a dull-blackish, 

 ill-defined fascia beyond it, quite across wing ; followed by 

 another, sharply-defined outwardly, and marking the inner 

 edge of the blue transverse stripe on upper-side ; parallel to 

 hind-margin, a row of small black rings (the third from costa 

 conspicuously filled with white) ; inner-margin glossed with 

 purplish ; a dull-reddish stain near anal angle ; two rows of 

 indistinct blackish lunules along hind-margin. Hind-wing : 

 much varied with ndistinct blackish fasciae in basal half ; a 



