RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



122. Eurytela Hiarbas. 



Papilio Hiarbas, Dru., Ill Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 14, f. 1, Z. 

 Hiarba, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 128, n. 391. 

 Hiarbas, Herbst, Ins.Schmett., VII, pi. 169, 



[f. 3, 4. 



Biblis Hiarba, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, Suppl., p. 824, 



[n. 5-6a. 



Eurytela Hyarba, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 591. 

 Hiarbas, Doubl., JVestw., Hewits., Gen. Diurn. 



\Lep. t pi. 31, f. 4. 

 Exp. 1 in. 11 lin. 2 in. 2 lin. 



Glossy blackish-brown ( ? duller and paler) ; with a com- 

 mon transverse white stripe, commencing near hind-margin 

 (to which it is parallel) of fore-wing about first median 

 nervule, widening as it descends, and extending straight 

 across hind-wing from costa (close to apex) to anal angle. 

 Fore-wing : a white dot close to costa near apex, beneath 

 which are two indistinct ferruginous spots, indicates proper 

 origin of transverse stripe ; costa and hind-margin more or 

 less tinged with ferruginous, especially the latter, which is 

 marked by a row of thin, silvery-white lunules towards anal 

 angle. Hind-wing : hind-margin coloured as in fore-wing, 

 more conspicuously so near anal angle, and with two rows of 

 silvery lunules, the inner continuous of that of fore-wing 

 and its lunules touching so as to form a festooned streak, 

 lunules of the outer row separate, indistinct towards costa. 

 Cilia white between nervules. UNDER-SIDE. Pale-brownish, 

 with ferruginous streaks and clouds ; transverse stripe nar- 

 rower, not so white as above, commenced by a very thin, 

 often indistinct, streak (originating a little below white costal 

 dot of fore-wing), and interrupted on costa of hind-wing, 

 where it is clouded with ferruginous and marked with a row 

 of three blackish dots : common to both wings, a dentate 

 outwardly bluish-white edged dentate stria crossing discoidal 

 cells, a double bluish-white line closing cell, an irregular 

 transverse stripe, interrupted on first median nervules, just 

 beyond cells, a darker shade of brown between this stripe 

 and the white one, and two rows (more or less interrupted) 

 of hind-marginal lunules. Fore-wing : a minute line close 

 to base and a ring beyond it (enclosing a ferruginous one) in 

 discoidal cell, bluish-white; a ferruginous cloud on costa 

 beyond middle, and two others (smaller) on projections of 

 hind-margin. Hind-wing : a whitish ring in cell near base ; 

 close to it a smaller one above cell ; a large ferruginous cloud 

 on hind-margin, between discoidal nervule and anal angle. 



