136 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



wing : spots in band as on upper-side ; an ochreous-yellow 

 tinge on inner-margin, at conclusion of band ; lunular streaks 

 as in fore-wing. 



Though plainly-coloured, the sharpness and clearness of the pale bands 

 in this species, well contrasted with the rich brown ground-colour, render 

 it a handsome and conspicuous insect . The striking whiteness of the trans- 

 verse bands on the under surface at once distinguish it from all the allied 

 species. 



King William's Town (W. S. M. D'Urban).* Coll. mihi. 

 Natal. Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 Port Natal. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



82. Junonia Pelarga. 



$ . Papilio Pelarga, Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 513, n. 296. 



Papilio Laodice, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 138, f. G, H. 

 Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 93, n. 289. 



Papilio Leodice, Herbst., Bek. Ins. Schmett., VII, pi. 171, 



[f. 6, 7. 



Vanessa Laodora, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 314, n. 38. 

 ? . Papilio Pelarga, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist., Ill, pl.27, f. 1,2. 



Papilio Harpyia, Fab., Mant. Ins., II, p. 104. 



Papilio Trullus, Herbst., Bek. Ins. Schmett., VII, pi. 169. 



[f.6,7. 



Papilio Pelarga, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot., pi. 27, 



ff. 2 2a. 



Vanessa Pelarga, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 313, n. 37. 



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



Expands 2 in. 2 lin. 2 in. 4 lin. 



Fore-wing strikingly produced at extremity of first dis- 

 coidal nervule, being quite falcate, projection on third me- 

 dian nervule well-marked ; hind-wing with anal angle so 

 much produced as to form a short, abruptly-ending tail. 



$ . Dark-brown ; beyond middle an ochreous, red-tinged 

 band common to both wings, not bifid on costa of fore-wing. 

 Fore-wing : two transverse, red-ochreous, striae in discoidal 

 cell, edged with blue-powdered black lines ; a bluish stria 

 beyond cell ; the ochreous band strongly tinged with dull- 

 reddish along its outer edge, and deeply indented on its inner 

 edge ; a row of seven spots parallel to hind-margin, the first 

 four bluish-white, bordering apical portion of margin, the 

 remaining three black, in the ochreous band, near its outer 

 edge, (the last spot above sub-median nervure) ; beyond 

 these, a row of bluish lunules, succeeded by a row of very 

 indistinct darker marks, borders hind-margin. Hind-wing : 



* " Mowbray Park, Keiskamma Hoek. A mountain and forest-haunting 

 species, occurring from March to end of May." D'Urban, in litt. 



