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between nervules, in some places unite the two rows; between 

 second and third median nervule, these two rows unite almost 

 wholly, forming a large, imperfect, steely ocellus, black- 

 ringed, and with a pale-blue pupil in its outer half; a 

 similarly-coloured, but larger, and perfect ocellus, bipupillate 

 with blue, succeeds at anal angle ; around it, and bordering 

 hind-margin, for the greater part, is a yellow-ochreous space; 

 hind-margin narrowly bordered with a black edging, which is 

 very thinly edged with whitish inwardly and outwardly. 



The under-side of this fine Nymphalis is exceedingly beautiful, and 

 strongly characteristic of the Genus, while its numerous and intricate 

 markings render a detailed description of it a difficult and lengthy matter. 

 I once saw Brutus, or a closely-allied species, settled on the sprig of a 

 young tree in one of the Knysna woods ; out had a very short time granted 

 me to admire the conspicuously-marked and glittering under-surface of its 

 wings Nymphalis ending the " silent ecstacy " by one of those much-to- 

 be-deplored, abrupt departures, so habitual to the tribe. 



Natal. Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Port Natal. West Africa. Sierra Leone. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



101. Nymphalis Pelias. 



Papilio Pelias, Cram., Pap, Exot., pi. 3, f. C, D. 



Herbst,Nat.Bek.Ins.Schmett., IV, pl.63, 



[f. 5, 6. 



Erifccea Pelopia, ffubn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 47, n. 424. 



Nymphalis Pelias, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 351, n. 2. 



Expands 3 in. 5 lin. 3 in. 7 lin. 



$ . Black ; with warm yellow-ochreous, transverse, stripes 

 and rows of spots. Fore-winy : a ferruginous-ochreous tint 

 suifuses wing from base, extending to extremity of discoidal 

 cell on costa, and to a little before middle on inner-margin ; 

 near extremity of cell, touching subcostal nervure, a rounded 

 black spot ; costa narrowly bordered with ferruginous-ochre- 

 ous to considerably beyond middle, as far as the commence- 

 ment of a broad, transverse, yellow-ochreous band, extending 

 to inner-margin about middle, where it is paler ; the inner 

 edge of this band is rather irregularly dentate, while its outer 

 edge is regularly serrated by deep indentations of black, on 

 the nervules, as far as third median nervule the band being 

 further marked with a row of six black spots near its outer 

 edge, from costa as far as third median nervule, completely 

 dividing the band in its upper portion ; along hind-marginal 

 edge, a row of eight rather large, deep-ochreous spots of 

 uniform width, the last of which, just above anal angle, is 

 geminate. Hind-wing : basal portion pale brownish-ochre- 

 .ous with a ferruginous tint, mostly clothed with long hairs ; 

 transverse band of fore-wing continued across this wing by a 



