RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



Very pale greenish, or greenish-white ; shot with a brilliant 

 rosy-violet lustre, more vivid in $ , giving a " mother-of-pearl" - 

 like aspect to the wings ; spotted and margined with blackish. 



Fore-wing: costa thinly powdered with minute blackish 

 atoms to slightly beyond middle, where commences a narrow, 

 blackish edging, rapidly widening to apex, where it forms a 

 rather broad bordering ; hind-margin also bordered with 

 blackish, which, wide at apex, gradually narrows to anal angle, 

 where it is sometimes very indistinct; from sub-costal nervure 

 are two short, transverse, thin, slightly waved streaks, one 

 crossing discoidal cell about its middle, the other closing cell, 

 from first sub-costal nervule, a little beyond extremity of 

 cell, is a third streak to first median nervule ; these three 

 streaks are all liable to be very indistinct, or even obliterated in 

 their lower portion, but the streak beyond cell is always con- 

 tinued to inner-margin about middle by a very faint, thin, 

 grey line ; near apex, between the two discoidal nervules, a 

 rounded, blackish spot, sometimes united to apical blackish ; 

 two other black spots beyond middle, one above, the other 

 below, third median nervule, the upper spot the larger, and 

 centred wdth violet-blue, (which centre is sometimes edged 

 inwardly by a red crescent) ; two blackish dots, between this 

 ocellate spot and the blackish spot near apex, complete the 

 transverse row of spots ; close and parallel to hind-margin, a 

 row of larger or smaller blackish spots, between nervules, 

 sometimes united to hind-marginal blackish. Hind-wing : 

 beyond middle, parallel to hind-margin, between costal nervure 

 and third median nervule, a row of six black spots, of which 

 the first and second are of moderate size and not ocellate, 

 the third larger, with violet-blue pupil and red lunule, the 

 fourth and fifth blackish only (rarely red-centred), very small, 

 or sometimes altogether obsolete, the sixth large, very 

 distinct, containing a violet-blue-pupilled, red centre, in a 

 conspicuous yellow ring ; beyond these, also between nervules, 

 a row of thin, blackishj lunulate marks, from costa to anal 

 angle, strongest in the $ , the thickest lunule being at anal 

 angle, and in some specimens broadly suffused with blackish 

 internally; the thin, grey line of fore-wing continued obliquely 

 across this wing to inner-margin, a little before anal angle ; a 

 blackish streak bordering hind-margin, which is also thinly 

 irrorated with blackish atoms. UNDER-SIDE. Paler, glistening 

 somewhat iridescent, but without the rich lustre of upper- 

 side ; blackish markings reduced to very thin lines and dots ,- 

 thin line crossing both wings distinct and black. Fore-wing : 

 two pale, slightly pinkish, thinly black-edged, rather broad, 

 transverse stripes/ from costa before middle to just above 



