RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALIS. 



Junonia Orithya, Hiibn. Ferz. Bek. Schmett., p. 34-. 

 Vanessa Orithya, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 317. 

 Junonia Orithyia, Horsf. $ Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. 



[Mus., p. 141. 



Exp. 1 in. 10| lin. 2 in. 3 lin. 

 Nearly allied to /. Clelia, Cram. 



. Fore-wing : markings similar to those of Clelia ; 

 cellular blue striae more distinct ; apical bands not so white, 

 tinged with ochreous ; ocellate spots ringed with paler red ; 

 immediately below the lower ocellus a quadrate blue space ; 

 costa edged with ochrey-whitish. Hind-wing : all metallic 

 blue, which colour often more or less suffuses the ochrey- 

 whitish hind-marginal lunulate streaks ; basal region, 

 especially towards inner-margin, widely black ; ocellate 

 spots usually larger and brighter than in Clelia, sometimes 

 very much larger. UNDER-SIDE. Similar to that of 

 Clelia, but usually paler, and less distinctly marked. Fore- 

 Ming: no blackish on inner-marginal region, which is 

 brownish-grey ; orange in cell paler, more yellow, the 

 striae crossing it not bluish, but very pale greyish ; lower 

 ocellus larger and more distinct. Hind-wing : streaks as in 

 Clelia, but the two beyond middle more dentate ; the space 

 inclosed by the latter not much darker than rest of wing ; 

 two ocelli usually rather well-marked, but often, like rest of 

 row, only represented by fuscous dots. 



$ . Paler, browner ; ocellate spots much larger, especially 

 in hind-wing ; blue much duller, often with a greenish tinge, 

 only filling a limited space beyond middle, or sometimes 

 wholly wanting. UNDER-SIDE. As in $ , but sometimes 

 more distinctly marked, and the hind-wing more variegated. 



Cramer's figures on pi. 281 represent a Variety of the ? , in which 

 there is a fulvous band Ibetween the two ocelli of fore-wing, and in which 

 the under-surface is very stroogly marked, especially the band and row of 

 ocelli beyond middle of hind-wing. 



LARVA. Black; legs ochre-yellow. A white lateral 

 stripe running immediately above legs. Armed with black 

 branched spines, of which there are two short ones on head : 

 tubercles, from which, on each side, two rows of spines 

 spring, ochre-yellow. " On a species of Vitex, bearing the 

 native name of " Saban." December." Horsf., M.S. 

 PUPA. Sandy -ochreous, clouded with blackish on wing- 

 covers and abdomen : back tuberculated. Rather stout : 

 head not sharply pointed. 



Described from figures on PL V of Horsfield & Moore's 

 " Catalogue." 



