68 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



discoidal cell) ; two spots in cell, and a quadrate one closing 

 it, all touching costal border, and dark-brown ; two similar 

 spots between second and third median nervules, one just 

 beneath extremity of cell, the other more or less incorporate 

 with hind-marginal border (a spot above, and rarely another 

 below, this latter spot, touching it, sometimes separable from 

 border) ; cilia narrow, white, interrupted with brown. Hind- 

 wing : costa from base widely, hind-margin very narrowly, 

 bordered ; a fuscous streak closing cell ; a sub-marginal row 

 of blackish lunular marks, more or less distinct ; anal angle 

 prominently lobed, ferruginous-red, marked with a gilded dot, 

 bearing a short, slightly -twisted, acute tail of the same hue, 

 white-tipped, on submedian nervure ; cilia mingled greyish 

 and ferruginous. UNDER-SIDE. Fore-wing : dull orange- 

 yellow, very pale on inner-margin ; border varying from 

 cinereous to ferruginous-brown ; spots in and bordering 

 discoidal cell, transverse row of spots beyond middle, and 

 row of dots on costa, all with large, brilliant, greenish-golden 

 centres ; below median nervure, a large, dull-black, whitish- 

 centred, often gold^dotted spot ; a whitish, gold-dusted streak 

 along bend of costal edge at base ; a submarginal row of 

 golden dots, sometimes indistinct. Hind-wing : varies in 

 tint like border of fore-wing ; three transverse rows of small 

 golden spots, some of which are indistinct, the middle row 

 including a golden streak closing cell ; a dark-brown, trans- 

 verse shade near hind-margin, ending on inner-margin with a 

 golden streak, and often marked externally with some 

 indistinct golden dots ; a pale hind-marginal edging becomes 

 golden near anal angle. 



$ . Dull orange-yellow ; brown borders paler, narrower. 

 fore-wing : base more widely suffused with brown, mingled 

 with ochreous ; apical border not half as wide as in $ ; spots 

 in and about cell larger ; beyond middle, a ziczac row of 

 small, quadrate, brown spots across wing. Hind-wing : base 

 dark-brown to extremity of discoidal cell ; costa broadly 

 bordered ; hind-margin edged with a brown line ; submarginal 

 lunular row well marked, the lunules contiguous ; a more or 

 less incomplete row of small spots a little beyond middle, 

 like that in fore-wing. UNDER-SIDE. Quite like that of $ ; 

 rather paler ; spots larger, the gilding slightly paler but not 

 less brilliant. 



Antenna, in both sexes, marked beneath with a conspicuous, 

 broad, white bar, just at the base of the club. 



Cramer's figures of this species are very unsatisfactory, especially that o^ 

 the upper-surface, which, apparently representing a $ , shows two dentate, 

 strongly-marked black stripes crossing both wings before middle, with the 



